“I'm amazed to be here still and doing all this. But then I look at Oscar Niemeyer in Rio, who was a hero of mine when I was a student at Manchester. Oscar's still busy at work at 102, so there's hope. In any case, I just wouldn't know how to stop.”

— Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank

theguardian.com http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2010/jun/29/norman-foster-interview.

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