After creating an uproar in the local architecture community, Foster + Partners will not be working on the renovation's to San Francisco's 50 UN Plaza.
After creating an uproar in the local architecture community, Foster + Partners will not be working on the renovation's to San Francisco's 50 UN Plaza. The GSA project was getting $121 million in stimulus funds, which had the three local firms who lost out on the bid frustrated by the Brit's inclusion (Foster was working with Berkley firm ELS, also now off the project). It appears Architectural Resources Group and HKS will be the new leads. The Architect's Newspaper
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Great, more mediocrity for SF...
yeah. hks? shudder.
also, this would have been a great project for an open competition.
Wow.
any thoughts on foster's being excluded for not being an american architect!? of all reasons, this one seems the least noble (i think the staff at ELS would agree) - remember all the american architects practicing abroad...dangerous precedents...
F+P employs a sizable portion of Americans, has an office in New York and has done some good projects on American soil [the extension to the mfa in Boston, the Hearst tower, the Winspear Opera house in Dallas, to name a few].
This kind of smells like jingoism.
Presumably, in the free market, F+P was most qualified for the project?
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