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,...
Looking Around (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Dallas has spent more than three decades piecing together an ambitious downtown "arts district" in the area around the Dallas Museum of Art. Last weekend the city opened two of the last big parts of the project, an opera house by Norman Foster and a theater by Rem Koolhaas and Joshua Prince-Ramus. I went [...]
Woody Haut's Blog (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Heartbreak & Vine Film Festival Day 6 For those, like me, who missed last week's film festival in Lyon, here are clips from some of the rarely seen films that Eddie Muller and Philippe Garnier presented there. As often the case with clips like these, the picture quality is often less than desired. The Prowler, directed by Joseph Losey, 1951 Woman on the Run, direcgted by Norman Foster, 1950 711...
Flavorwire (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
The designing mind behind the British Museum expansion, the Reichstag dome, and the Hearst Building in midtown Manhattan will be slumming it this spring. Sir Norman Foster's latest New York project (in addition to three currently unbuilt edifices) is an eight-story contemporary art gallery on the Bowery, former home of myriad flophouses and now neighbor to the envelope-pushing New Museum. Sperone Westwater...
Curbed (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
The Times reports on how the Sperone Westwater gallery folks got Lord Norman Foster to design their new building on the Bowery . Answer: They asked! And then, "He took out paper and pencil and started sketching." It's that easy! Meanwhile, that big red elevator visible from the street that'll double as a "moving exhibition space" can friggin' fit 240 people ! It's going to move...
BLDGBLOG (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
[Image: A mobile, military field hospital and medical instant city]. If you happen to be in Montreal this week, I will be giving a lecture tomorrow night at the Canadian Centre for Architecture . I have to admit to being a long-time fan of the CCA, so it's quite a thrill to be speaking there. The lecture is free and open to the public, on Thursday, October 22, and it kicks off at 7pm; it's called "...
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