Crossrail Place Retail and Roof Garden, Canary Wharf
Crossrail Place Retail and Roof Garden: Canary Wharf shops, cafes & restaurants design by Foster + Partners architects – Isle of Dogs London architecture
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e-architect select Foster + Partners architecture from around the world. Discover key buildings and architectural designs by this international architects office headquartered in London, England, UK.
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.
New Transport Network in Jeddah
Following an international design competition, a contract signing ceremony was held in Jeddah today to celebrate the appointment of Foster + Partners Team to develop the architectural vision for Jeddah’s city-wide public transport plan.
Foster + Partners Architects UK: Projects
Foster + Partners Architects Project Information – UK architecture practice led by Norman Foster, RIBA Gold Medal 1983 Winner, located in London, England
Thames Estuary Airport in London
Design: Foster + Partners. The architects submit a detailed response to the Airports Commission’s call for evidence, addressing surface access, costs, delivery + analysis of the environmental, economic and social impacts of a new airport on the Isle of Grain in the Thames Estuary.
The RIBA Norman Foster Travelling Scholarship 2014
Opportunities resulting from climate change are often overlooked as these changes are seen as problematic. However, it is my intention to explore how severe weather conditions can be taken advantage of to provide new opportunities for inhabiting these resourceful landscapes in the future, thus helping our larger cities to prosper.
New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman
Design: Foster + Partners. In a striking about-face, the New York Public Library has abandoned its much-disputed renovation plan to turn part of its research flagship on Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street into a circulating library and instead will refurbish the nearby Mid-Manhattan Library.
Foster + Partners Exhibition Bangkok
‘Foster + Partners: the Art of Architecture’
“The Art of Architecture” will be staged at the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre from 4th April to 29th June 2014, with Permasteelisa being a major partner of the exhibition.
Following the success in China and Malaysia last year, the exhibition celebrating the historic and most representative projects of Norman Foster’s architecture practice is now open in Bangkok.
South Quay Plaza London for Berkeley Homes
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.
Smithsonian Institute Building Washington DC
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
Winspear Opera House Dallas Arts building
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.
First and Mission Towers – San Francisco
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.
551W21 New York Condo, NYC Apartments
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
Restaurant & Bar Design Awards Winners – Atrium Champagne Bar, London, UK, Design: Foster + Partners, Best bar ; Höst, Denmark, Design: NORM Architects, Best restaurant
Norman Foster AV Monographs, Arquitectura Viva
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.
551 West 21st Street – New York Condo
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.
United Arab Emirates Pavilion Expo 2015 Milan
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.
Queen Alia International Airport Amman, Jordan
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.