Lord of the Air. As the holder of a helicopter, jet and powered aircraft licence, he has always wanted to fly high. Following spectacular stopovers at the airports in Bangkok and Hong Kong, Norman Foster first ventured in Frankfurt on Europe's highest and then on Germany's historically most significant building: the Berlin Reichstag. Since then, the award-winning Brit, knighted in 1990, made a Lord in 1999 and receiver of the Pritzker Prize, the Nobel Prize for architecture, can call himself Reichstag architect.