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From its original location, the University of Limerick has expanded over the years and is now situated on both sides of the River Shannon, the longest and largest in Ireland. The University’s expansion provided the location for the new Medical School
The masterplan for this plateau proposed boulevards, streets, and squares with the poetic integration of landscape and ecology. It referred to the legacy of the great tradition of institutions such as Oxford, Cambridge, and Harvard, which were reinte
The Commissioners of Public Works developed this new building to house the Department of Finance. It is the first new Government Department Building completed in Dublin since 1939. The project incorporated a link into the adjacent Government Building
Originally a Celtic city, Toulouse, the capital of the southern Occitane Region of France, is known today as La Ville Rose – The Pink City – because of the terracotta brick of the city’s buildings. The School of Economics is positioned on a key site,
A warehouse of ideas, a labyrinth of interlocking volumes, layers of welcome joining community and university, Town House came into existence born of Kingston University’s progressive educational vision. In this building, sound and silence, exuberant
The London School of Economics takes up several buildings in a central area of the British capital. Aiming to gather all the services for students under one same roof, the school called a competition in 2009 to build a student hub with an auditorium,
The Photographers’ Gallery is a non-profit publicly funded organization devoted to disseminating and exhibiting photography. Founded in 1971, the organization decided in 2006 to move its home to an old red-brick Victorian warehouse, of 10.5 meters x
Situated on the boundary between the residential urban fabric and the parkland setting of River Lagan upon entering Belfast, the Lyric is the home of the theater company of the same name. Both the site, a small triangular sloping plot, and the budget
Aiming to preserve and promote Irish language, the center built by the organization An Gaeláras invites citizens to join the community cultural center by channelling pedestrian flow from the city to a large interior atrium. The site, in the historic
In the historic Liberties area, southwest of the central core of Dublin, the Timberyard project repairs the fracture that the road engineering works for the new Cork Street corridor left on the local landscape. The social housing scheme provides a ne
The facade of this building that serves as a branch of Bosideng – a Chinese chain of clothing stores with more than 4,000 outlets spread all over the world – seeks to present a variable image, depending on the observer’s point of view and weather con
High on a hill in Killiney, dotted with distinctive outcrops of granite, the house opens up to the views southwards of Dublin Bay and the Sugarloaf in the distance. The organization of the house responds to the topography of the site, configuring a s
A diez kilómetros al sur del aeropuerto surafricano de East London se emplaza un enclave desde el que se puede observar las gargantas por las que desciende el río Igoda y las inmensas playas de dunas del océano Índico. La belleza de este lugar, situa
The result of an international competition, the construction of Kansai Airport, carried out in 38 months by 6,000 workers, meant a huge challenge. It had to be raised on an artificial island (that existed only on paper during the first stages of the
Deptford is a restructuring area, southeast of London, where the Laban Center has been constructed. St. Paul’s Church becomes an important point of reference for this new complex. The large, embracing gesture of the Laban building volume gives the ef
In the heart of London’s financial centre, on the site of the former Baltic Exchange, the Swiss Re building at 30 St Mary Axe, rising 180 metres high, overlooks London’s profile. Its distinctive shape and circular plan on ground floor allow to open u
Existen referencias escritas a este lugar desde que en el año 700 se fundó un pequeño priorato. En el siglo XVIII, el descubrimiento de un manantial lo hizo popular, y en el siglo pasado llegó a convertirse en un área industrial. Las fincas y jar
El nuevo edificio Alexander Fleming en el campus del South Kensington Imperial College crea un nuevo entorno de trabajo para investigaciones médicas y biológicas avanzadas. Su núcleo es un foro común de cinco alturas, donde tienen lugar todas las act
La nueva terminal constituye una espectacular puerta de entrada a Hong Kong: imponente, luminosa y amplia, acogerá al año unos 35 millones de pasajeros. Con una superficie equivalente a las terminales del John F. Kennedy de Nueva York y de Heathrow e
En lo que fue el West India Dock, y junto a una torre proyectada por el estudio, se ha construido la estación que prevé más viajeros de toda la ampliación de la línea Jubilee, y que da servicio a un barrio de oficinas en rápido crecimiento. Ante la p
Como punto de partida, el esquema elegido busca mostrar la función de cada elemento constructivo. Debido a su situación, junto a los muros de contención del río Támesis y adyacente a hitos singulares como el Big Ben o el Tower Bridge, la cimentación
Brutalism with a friendly countenance: this is how one might venture to describe the architecture that Grafton Architects – Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara – have been carrying out for the past twenty years in Ireland, Europe, and America, from t
Si obtiene licencia, Norman Foster construirá el edificio más visible de Londres: la Millennium Tower, un rascacielos de 92 plantas en la City. Mientras tanto, el arquitecto británico ha realizado en la ciudad su proyecto más invisible, la reforma de
In 1992, Foster and Partners won the competition to build a new airport for Hong Kong. To be placed, like Osaka’s Kansai (whose competition Foster lost to Piano in 1988) on an artificial island, the huge building was to be the largest construction pr
Winners of competitions in 1989, 1990 and 1991, Cranfield, Cambridge and Camus are three educational buildings that share expressive roofs, climate-conscious detailing and a convivial understanding of learning. Gravid with light references and wise i
Whereas the office buildings of the 80s were fast track jobs for British and Japanese developers, in the 90s Foster was able to build energy-conscious working spaces for German and French public clients. In these slowly developed commissions he regai
Like Stansted Airport, the American Air Museum at Duxford took ten years from design to completion, and in this case no environmental debates could be blamed for the delay. Perhaps because of its protracted development, this museum has not been fully
Foster has never been a residential architect proper. After the first houses with Team 4, most of his domestic commissions have been for powerful clients, like the Mayor of Nîmes or the owner of the Century Tower; the project for himself of 1978 was
Elected to the Royal Academy in 1983, two years later Foster was commissioned to improve the exhibition galleries on top of Burlington House. Although limited in scope, this project was deeply significant for the importance of the institution involve
The new airport of Hong Kong, a project recently completed by the British Norman Foster, is the largest construction of our times.
