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UK architectural legend Norman Foster courts controversy designing bullfighting poster

HE’S known for his revolutionary designs, including the Reichstag dome, the Hearst tower and the Gherkin in London.

By Walter Finch

But despite being the world’s richest living architect, Norman Foster somehow found time to knock up a local bullfighting poster for Sevilla. Now, the British architect - behind a string of local buildings, including Madrid’s Torre Bankia and Barcelona’s Nou Camp redesign - has designed Sevilla bullring’s annual festival poster.

The architect will certainly lose credibility in the eyes of animal rights activists after he was commissioned by the Real Maestranza to promote its controversial season of ‘corridas’.

DIVERSE: Foster (right) with wife Elena has designed the Gherkin and Sevilla poster

HE miraculously escaped death when his siblings were buried alive.

Now, Bobi, a pure-bred mastiff, has been declared the oldest dog that ever lived. According to the Guinness World Records (GWR) he will be 31 in May.

His Portuguese owner, Leonel Costa, explained that his parents had decided they couldn’t afford more animals, so when a new litter was born they had dug a hole and dumped the unfortunate pups in it. But they somehow missed Bobi, a Rafeiro do Alentejo mas-