Norman Foster is named the 2025 Andrée Putman Lifetime Achievement Award winner

Lord Norman Foster will receive the 2025 Andrée Putman Lifetime Achievement Award as part of this year’s Créateurs Design Awards, which takes place in Paris on January 18th.

Foster, who followed the late designer Gaetano Pesce in winning the award’s fifth edition, was so honored over his "revolutionary" contributions to urban design and the environmental movement within architecture. The ever-expanding portfolio of building projects he pursued after establishing Foster + Partners in 1967 was also recognized as works that "redefined the possibilities of modern architecture" globally in a highly technical future. Foster’s creativity and vision has since helped him garner the AIA Gold Medal and the 1999 Pritzker Prize, among many other honors.

Foster, who followed the late designer Gaetano Pesce in winning the award’s fifth edition, was so honored over his "revolutionary" contributions to urban design and the environmental movement within architecture. The ever-expanding portfolio of building projects he pursued after establishing Foster + Partners in 1967 was also recognized as works that "redefined the possibilities of modern architecture" globally in a highly technical future. Foster’s creativity and  vision has since helped him garner the AIA Gold Medal and the 1999 Pritzker Prize, among many other honors.

Foster said: "It is a great honour to be receiving the Andrée Putman Lifetime Achievement Award, and to be sharing such esteemed company including my colleague Bob Stern. Design is a collective endeavour, and recognition is of course shared with the many talented people that I have had the privilege of working with throughout my career. On their behalf, I express my thanks and gratitude. I also congratulate the programme of the Créateurs Design Award for its encouragement of creativity in all of the arts."

He joins Pesce, Iris Apfel, Tadao Ando, and Robert A.M. Stern, who are the other past Andrée Putman Lifetime Achievement Award winners. Submissions for the 2025 Créateurs Design Awards open categories are still being accepted and can be submitted online until November 22nd.