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The website features a selection of the best new building designs by this respected international design firm. The practice is led by Norman Foster, who studied at Manchester University, and later at Yale School of Architecture (1961–62). He is an English architect.
In addition, we post information and images of significant contemporary structures on this international website. Our tag archives focus on internationally-significant works.
Finally, this British practice are the winner of major property awards: namely the Pritzker Architecture Prize and the Stirling Prize.
Design: Foster + Partners
Berkeley Homes has submitted plans to Tower Hamlets Council for the redevelopment of the existing South Quay Plaza site to provide a world-class, residential-led mixed-use development. In accordance with Tower Hamlet’s policy for this area, the scheme will also be delivering over 1.5 acres of high quality public realm, reinvigorating the waterfront on South Dock and creating a vibrant new destination.
Design: Foster + Partners ; Co-architects: Smith Group Inc. Now designated as a National Historic Landmark, the former United States Patent Building building was rescued from impending demolition in 1958 by President Eisenhower
Architect: Foster + Partners – part of the AT&T Performing Arts Center, the new Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House in Dallas redefines the essence of an opera house for the twenty first century, breaking down barriers to make opera more accessible for a wider audience.
Responding to the Dallas climate, a generous solar canopy extends from the building, revealing below a fully glazed sixty foot high lobby. Beneath the canopy, a shaded pedestrian plaza creates a major new public space for the city.
Design: Foster + Partners / Heller Manus Architects. 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, announce the selection of Foster + Partners and Heller Manus Architects as architects for the approximately 2 million sqft mixed-use development in San Francisco.
Scott Resnick and Brown Harris Stevens announce the opening of the sales office for 551W21, the new 19-story luxury condominium in West Chelsea by architects Foster + Partners. Designed by Lee Mindel of Shelton, Mindel & Associates, the sales office meticulously presents the signature interior elements of Foster + Partners’ building design.
The condominium overlooks the Hudson River and features 44 large-scaled residences. Beyer Blinder Belle is the executive architect for the building.
Restaurant & Bar Design Awards Winners – Atrium Champagne Bar, London, UK, Design: Foster + Partners, Best bar ; Höst, Denmark, Design: NORM Architects, Best restaurant
Publisher: Arquitectura Viva SL, Editor: Luis Fernández-Galiano. Like his admired Buckminster Fuller, Norman Foster thinks of Earth as a spaceship that travels through space taking us on board, and for whose care we are all responsible. If there is a guiding thread for fifty years of work it is precisely the desire to find generic solutions to unique problems, so that innovation is placed at the service of the efficient use of resources and the sustainable occupation of the planet.
Scott Resnick announce Foster + Partners as design architect of 551 West 21st Street – a modern, 19-story luxury condominium overlooking the Hudson River in West Chelsea. 551 West 21st Street features 44 large-scaled residences, including three penthouses. Beyer Blinder Belle is the executive architect, and construction of the fully-financed building is under way with anticipated occupancy in the fall of 2015.
Design: Foster + Partners, Architects. Designs evealed for the United Arab Emirates pavilion at the 2015 Milan Expo. Bringing the planning principles of the traditional desert city to Milan, the pavilion’s interior of self-shaded streets evokes the experience of the UAE’s ancient communities, while demonstrating the natural energy efficiency of their compact urban form.
Foster + Partners architects have produced a majestic, elegant building for Jordan. The have taken the repetitive pattern and top-lit concept of their earlier Stansted Airport building and improved it with a wonderful treatment of concrete. The building is a heavyweight, concrete flowing but controlled – articulated by well-placed joints. It seems like a return to the serious concrete structures of the past.
The new campus is to be completed with a building complex designed by the architects Foster + Partners of London to house the faculties of law and political science.
The 2013 RIBA Norman Foster Travelling Scholarship has been awarded to Sigita Burbulyte of Bath School of Architecture for her proposal, ‘Charles Booth Going Abroad’.
A ceremony has been held today, attended by German Culture Minister, Mrs Wanka; the Mayor of Munich, Mr Ude; Lord Foster and Dr Helmut Friedl, Director of the Lenbachhaus Museum, to mark the completion of a major project to transform the experience for visitors.
‘Foster + Partners: the Art of Architecture’ will be staged at Galeri PETRONAS, Kuala Lumpur, from 7 March to 12 May 2013. The exhibition is the first major survey of the studio’s work to be held in Southeast Asia and follows critically acclaimed recent shows in Hong Kong and Shanghai.