Norman Foster has temporarily stepped back from his role on the board overseeing the planning of a $500 billion mega-city in Saudi Arabia as questions mount over the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi
The international community is demanding answers over what happened to the Washington Post writer following his recent disappearance inside the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul.
— Architects' Journal
Norman Foster is one of several 'global experts' who were announced as members on the global advisory board for the planned $500-billion NEOM mega-city project in the Saudi Arabian desert earlier this month but have distanced themselves from the appointment since the reported death of WaPo journalist Jamal Khashoggi has caused international outrage and diplomatic turmoil.
"Earlier [last week] Lord Foster wrote to the head of the NEOM advisory board, stating that, while the situation remains unclear, he has suspended his activities in respect of the board," reads a statement from Foster + Partners as published on AJ.
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Lawd Foster
Key word: temporarily.
Yet the continued American killing of unarmed civilians (at home and abroad) didn't stop him from taking commissions in the US. Double standards I guess.
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Ones got to be truly "special" to equate the US and Saudi Arabia
Thanks ;-P Actually, if it's about killing innocent unarmed civilians Saudi Arabia still has a long way to go. They're just getting started in Yemen (with their bombs, guns and training "Made in the USA, the USA are doing it for decades already and are light years ahead of the "competition".
Id love to be an european. i.e. from one of the countries that actually invented the game of colonization and that still sells arms to despots, but claim everything is the US's fault.
Actually Africans invented colonisation since that's where we come from, they also were the last to abolish slavery by the way (Mauritania 2007). And yes, everything is the US's fault, name something that isn't?
Nutella.
Nutella is the US's fault! Italians were starving during WWII because of the US and didn't have access to enough chocolate, thanks to the US, thereby forcing Pietro Ferrero to add hazelnuts to his sweet chocolate spreads and that's what we know now as Nutella.
You're right, the world might be a different place if it weren't for those fucking Americans that killed Franz Ferdinand.
Now you're stretching it a bit, but they could've minded their own business, that's for sure. Always pretending to save the world, gets a bit old.
Next time, when some European, or Russian horde starts taking your country, perhaps you'll stop begging for America? Or, what if we just left NATO?
I never begged for America to begin with. America interfered/s solely out of self-interest and their own agenda.
You might be the ONLY European that doesn't feel thankful that the US intervened to save your bacon in WWII...
A Europe divided between Nazis and Communists was totally fine apparently, the concentration camps also didn't really bother the Americans, they knew about them from the start. It was only when Stalin started winning and the status quo in jeopardy that the US needed to occupy Europe and enslave us (till this day) with their inhumane throwaway "free" market neoliberal carbon based capitalism. They didn't come to liberate us, they came to beat the Russians to it.
As a southamerican born, I always thank your kingdom for that loan to the spanish crown. How is it to be a subject of a king?
Our Queen is South American too, Argentinian actually! And our King is 3/4 German by the way. I think it's quite alright to be a subject of a King, it's for sure better than to live in a country that has Trump for a president. In fact 9 from the top 10 most livable cities globally are in monarchies, they must be on to something here. The first "American" city is Honolulu on the list all the way down on no. 23.
that suit makes NF look like a autocrat loving douche .... bad look.
I shutter to think of how awful this NOEM project would have looked anyway ... like Elon Musk after another acid trip. A bunch of air conditioned glass domes probably. The new Bloomberg building is nice tho
That's a gangster suit from 1937. It fits him perfectly.
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