As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown. (Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank)

As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.

Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank

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