New Norton Museum of Art Building

New Norton Museum of Art Building

Design: Foster + Partners, Architects. Expansion increases exhibition space, adds new Indoor and outdoor spaces, and a “Museum in a Garden”: transformational expansion project with ceremonial groundbreaking on February 6.

425 Park Avenue Tower Manhattan offices

425 Park Avenue

Design: Foster + Partners: this is the first time a full-block building has been demolished on Park Avenue and the first time in 50 years a new full-block building has been built. The new 43 story skyscraper building wil be 207 m (678 ft) tall.

Mars Habitat Concept Design

Mars Houses

Foster + Partners New York’s design for a modular habitat on Mars has been shortlisted amongst 30 finalists for the 3D Printed Habitat Challenge organised by America Makes and NASA

Porcelanosa Showroom in New York City

Porcelanosa Showroom

Design: Foster + Partners. The new flagship Porcelanosa showroom has opened in New York in the former Commodore Criterion building, situated within the Landmark ‘Madison Square North History District’.

Cardiff Interchange: City Centre Redevelopment

Cardiff Interchange in Wales by Foster + Partners

Foster + Partners has won the competition to design Cardiff Interchange, the city’s central bus station and part of the wider Central Square regeneration masterplan for the area, also by Foster + Partners. Bordering a vibrant public plaza, it will be a spectacular new gateway for visitors arriving to the city by train or bus.

New Transport Network Jeddah: Foster + Partners

New Transport Network in Jeddah building design

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

HSBC Bank building Hong Kong

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

Thames Hub Airport

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

RIBA Norman Foster Travelling Scholarship 2014 3

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

New York Public Library

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 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.