This architect designed the Millau (“mee-YO”) Viaduct, which at over 1,000 feet high is the tallest bridge in the world. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this architect of the glass dome atop Berlin’s Reichstag parliament building.
ANSWER: Norman Foster [or Norman Robert Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank; or The Lord Foster of Thames Bank]
[10e] Another glass-centric Foster design is this London skyscraper, whose tall thin panoramic glass dome has led to it being nicknamed for a vegetable it resembles.
ANSWER: The Gherkin [or 30 St Mary Axe]
[10m] Foster designed the Great Court in this London museum, which has a tessellated glass roof built by the engineering firm Buro Happold. Robert Smirke designed this museum’s Victorian Greek Revival main building.
ANSWER: British Museum
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