The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
Coming up the week of November 30 and the following weeks: design weeks in Hong Kong, Miami, and Tokyo, the world's largest building opens some parts to the public, and architects including Norman Foster and Frank Gehry take part in a London auction.
Traves Tangents (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
One Melbourne landmark is Flinders St station . There's a urban myth that the design was meant for India, and was sent to Australia by accident. In contrast, here's the Norman Foster designed Southern Cross .
varnelis.net - network culture (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Unfortunately I won’t have a chance to see this show, but I had the chance to contribute a brief piece on Archizoom’s “Structure for Leisure in Prato–Permanent Luna Park in a Shopping Centre” to the catalogue for First Works: Emerging Architectural Experimentation of the 1960s and 1970s , now on display the AA. The show explores the first projects that architects of that...
felixsalmon.com (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
In September, Tyler Cowen picked Berlin as his “preferred exile”: There would be plenty of art and music, lots of smart people to talk to, access to other good locales, and the near-certainty of public order, yet with bearable winters and good health care. Today, on the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, he's not so enthusiastic : I like spending time in Berlin. But I am never...
Archinect (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
News Did you know that Yelp was co-founded by an architect that once worked for Norman Foster? Did you know that this same ex-architect also helped define the RSS standards? Well, now you know! Learn more about how David Galbraith in the newest Working out of the Box feature. Gabby Uvidia is the winner of Archinect's "Why are you studying Architecture?" contest . Here answer; Architecture...
Flavorwire (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
The Dia Arts Foundation — purveyor of large-scale installation and performance art since the 1970s, starting with seminal arts space The Kitchen — announced this morning its impending plans to return to Manhattan with a major exhibition space at 545 West 22nd Street, on the footprint of a building that Dia has owned since 1992. Also noteworthy: for the first time in its 35-year history,...
Archinect (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Did you know that Yelp was co-founded by an architect that once worked for Norman Foster? Did you know that this same ex-architect also help define the RSS standards? Well, now you know! Learn more about how David Galbraith moved from architecture to "maker of 'Internet Stuff'" in the latest installment in our Working out of the Box series . And for some inspiration for the young struggling...
Archinect (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Working out of the Box is a series of features presenting architects who have applied their architecture backgrounds to alternative career paths. Are you an architect working out of the box? Do you know of someone that has changed careers and has an interesting story to share? If you would like to suggest an (ex-)architect, please send us a message . Archinect: Where did you study architecture? David...
Latest News (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Norman Foster is drawing up plans for a cluster of tall buildings on the site of the New Covent Garden Market in Nine Elms.
explo guide (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
The viaduct of records History and description Millau Viaduct represents the missing link of A75 motorway, to make the crossing of the Tarn valley near Millau deep here 270 metres. Project start dates back to 1987. In 1996, after a tender, the solution designed by Michel Virlogeux, Chief Engineer of bridges and pavements, and drawn by Sir Norman Foster, architect, is retained. Will be a work of art...
The Economist (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
While other cities are tightening their belts, Dallas is polishing its buckle ON ONE side of Flora Street is the Bill and Margot Winspear Opera House, an airy space designed by Norman Foster. Across the street is the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre, a silver cube designed by Joshua Prince-Ramos and Rem Koolhaas. “Aesthetically, it’s stoic, even off-putting,” said the theatre manager,...
London Daily Photo (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
I'm still working away from London a lot of the time, in Switzerland, so I thought I'd show you a photo I took on a cycle ride of the Dolder Grand, a confection of a Hotel with a London connection as it was renovated by Norman Foster.
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
OVIEDO.- Sir Norman Foster along with Martin Cooper, Raymond Samuel Tomlinson and others today received the Prince of Asturias Award. Ismaíl Kadaré, Prince of Asturias Awards laureate for Letters; José Narro, vice-chancellor of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Prince of Asturias Awards laureate for Communication and Humanities; Margaret Chan, Director-General...
Slow Painting (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Photo: Foster and Partners It is difficult to fathom at first why a famous architect with one of the largest practices in the world would personally want to take on a sliver of a building on the Bowery. This is Norman Foster, after all, who redesigned the Reichstag in Berlin and the British Museum and created Beijing’s [...]
The Independent (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
The word Dallas triggers two default visions: the grassy knoll in Dealey Plaza, and the credits sequence of Dallas, the big daddy of television soaps. Decades later, the city still carries the same look of an arbitrary eruption of glass and steel towers rising from an almost featureless tabula rasa. But now, something big and red created by Sir Norman Foster and his design director, Spencer de Grey,...
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