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New Statesman (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
Today we congratulate ourselves on our multicultural society - yet British architecture was more open to influences from abroad two centuries ago Nowadays, a Norman Foster building in Hong Kong looks just like a Norman Foster building in Canary Wharf - neither British nor Chinese, just nationless steel and glass in both places. However big the modern Chinese economic boom, it has absolutely no stylistic...
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Blogger News Network (Free subscription) | 10/13/2008
The glory days of “the mother of all airports” (British architect Sir Norman Foster) having long passed, the last few days on life support for Berlin’s Tempelhof Airport are about to run out now, too. Berliners are currently hurrying to say their goodbyes and hustling to get on one of the last sightseeing flights offered [...]
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The Real Estate (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
The city's Landmarks Preservation Commission may vote on developer Aby Rosen 's proposed Norman Foster-designed commercial tower at 980 Madison Avenue at its meeting next week, according to a Landmarks spokeswoman. Such a move would bring to an end a more than two-year debate over a planned tower at the site, which has sparked a firestorm of criticism in the Upper East Side from nearby residents and...
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
The British architect Lord Norman Foster has been placed in joint poleposition to clinch a multibillion pound project to extend the tiny principality of Monaco the only way possible - out to sea.
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Curbed (Free subscription) | 09/24/2008
The Upper East Side's favorite feud has a new chapter, because white-suited landmark-loving writer Tom Wolfe is still extremely pissed about developer Aby Rosen's plans for the old gallery building at 980 Madison Avenue. Over the summer, Rosen had...
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Archinect (Free subscription) | 09/22/2008
Norman Foster and Richard Rogers have been approached by French energy giant EDF Energy, but both practices have rejected the opportunity to contribute designs to a new generation of nuclear power stations. Building >
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Argentina's Travel Blog (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008
The famous English architect Norman Foster is designing apartments in Buenos Aires in the expensive and ritzy barrio of Puerto Madero. According to the Clarín, he is designing Aleph Residencias, which will cost 6,000 dollars per square meter. Foster won the Henry Fellowship to study at the Yale School of Architecture and went on to [...]
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Curbed (Free subscription) | 09/13/2008
And, now, as you settle into your Saturday routine, check out some of the top items on Curbed this past week. Click the image above to view the full photogallery. 1) Bowery: Lord Norman Foster headed Downtown this week with...
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Archinect (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
According to a Curbed tipster, Lord Norman Foster is designing a gallery building for 257 Bowery, just North of SANAA's New Museum. Images and commentary @ Curbed
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Curbed (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
Click the image above to view the full photogallery. English architect Lord Norman Foster must be tired of dealing with all the stuffy uptowners (lookin' at you, Tom Wolfe!) who get mixed up in the business of his grand architectural...
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Curbed (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
As Aby Rosen, Norman Foster and other developers and architects can tell you, Upper East Siders hate change nearly as much as they love cashmere. And up on 93rd Street, the same group trying to extend the Carnegie Hill Historic...
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lloydslist.com (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
ONE of the more pleasing elements of the superyacht boom has been the explosion of innovative design work that has emerged from the sector over the last decade.
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Lost in the Frame (Free subscription) | 08/21/2008
Dennis O'Keefe and Ann Sheridan in Woman on the Run (dir. Norman Foster, 1950). I hope somewhere, someday, there's a better transfer of Woman on the Run than the gritty, blurry one on the DVD I watched, because this is one of the premier gems of noir lite. It's a Hitchcockian thriller-adventure with Ann Sheridan as a woman who's fallen out of love with her artist husband--until he goes missing after...
