Uncelebrated birthday boy

By Robert Booth Robert Booth Robert Booth 2005-06-17T00:00:00

Foster: revered in Germany; ignored in UK.

Norman Foster must have known that the Brits are rubbish at remembering birthdays. When his 70th came around earlier this month, he jetted out of the country to celebrate with his family in some warmer clime

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