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Designs have been revealed for the sustainable new headquarters of RMK, one of the world’s leading producers of copper – the project rethinks the conventional cellular office to set new standards in quality, comfort and flexibility. The 13-storey building has been tailored to the way... View full entry »
The Architectural Association and Foster + Partners are pleased to announce the award of the 2014 Foster + Partners Prize, which is presented annually to the AA Diploma student whose portfolio best addresses the themes of sustainability and infrastructure. The recipient is selected jointly by the... View full entry »
Opening celebrations were held on Friday at the Yacht Club de Monaco, led by HSH Prince Albert II and attended by Lord Foster and the club’s members. The new building forms the centrepiece of the remodelled harbour – its impressive new social and sporting facilities preserve the... View full entry »
A ground-breaking ceremony has been held for the Hankook Technodome, a state-of-the-art new research and development facility for one of the world’s leading tyre manufacturers. The new centre is located in Daejeon, at the heart of Asia’s ‘silicon valley’, and will provide... View full entry »
Norman Foster and artist, Hiroshi Sugimoto were presented with the inaugural Isamu Noguchi Award by Motohide Yoshikawa, Ambassador of Japan to the United Nations, at the Noguchi Museum’s annual Spring Benefit in New York last night. The award has been established by the Noguchi Museum to... View full entry »
The 2014 RIBA Norman Foster Travelling Scholarship has been awarded to Joe Paxton of the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London for his proposal, ‘Buffer Landscapes 2060’.Taking the threat of floods, droughts, melting glaciers and rising temperatures as a starting... View full entry »
The redevelopment of Marseille’s Vieux Port was jointly awarded the 2014 European Prize for Urban Public Space at a ceremony in Barcelona on Friday 25 April. The biennial prize, which attracted 274 entries from 30 countries, is organized by seven architecture institutions and is the only... View full entry »
Phase Three, a key part of the regeneration of the Battersea site, has been designed by Gehry Partners and Foster + Partners and includes new homes and a new high street, known as The Electric Boulevard, in an area to the south of the landmark Battersea Power Station.The Electric Boulevard will be... View full entry »
In a joint venture, TMG Partners, one of the San Francisco Bay Area’s largest mixed-use property developers, and Northwood Investors LLC, a leading privately-held global real estate investment firm, announced today the selection of Foster + Partners and Heller Manus Architects as architects... View full entry »
‘Foster + Partners: The Art of Architecture’ will be staged at theBangkok Art and Culture Centre(BACC) from 4 April to 29 June 2014. The touring exhibition is the first survey of the practice’s work in Thailand and follows critically acclaimed shows in China and Malaysia.Arranged... View full entry »
International Architecture Competition Culminates in Selection of Pritzker-Prize Winning Architect to Help Realize a New Icon in NYC’s Famed Plaza District Conceptual Designs Submitted by Foster, Hadid, Koolhaas and Rogers to be on Exhibit During the Municipal Art Society’s Annual... View full entry »
