Foster + Partners   Philippines   The firm of Norman Foster has unveiled its project for a 45-floor building in Manila. It will contain 43 luxury whole-floor apartments, about 550 square meters apiece, with vistas of the surroundings optimized. Adapted to Philippine vernacular archit

Foster + Partners   United States   The investment bank and financial services holding company’s headquarters at 270 Park Avenue in Manhattan will, says Foster + Partners, be “New York City’s largest all-electric skyscraper with net zero operational emissions and will be 100% powered b

Foster + Partners   China   The firm of Norman Foster has built the new Datong Art Museum. On the outside, the building is like an erupting landscape. Only the upper part is visible, with a steel-clad roof rendered in earthy tones. Embedding the museum onto the square reduced i

Foster + Partners   France   Located close to the Canal de la Robine, a museum rises like a temple consecrated to the Roman heritage of a city which was an important node in the network of roads of Gaul. The main spaces are organized in a single level on a plinth, under the prot

Foster + Partners   United Arab Emirates   The proposals for new transport models are presented in a building of careened forms with a laminated skin of reflecting stainless steel that prevents overheating...

Foster + Partners   France   The design unveiled by the British architect Norman Foster shows a desire for it to respectfully blend in with the gently rolling hills around. The tarracotta-tiled vaulted roof presents a timber structure with a 40-meter...

Foster + Partners   Chile   Foster+Partners’ first commission in Chile involves regenerating an existing mid-20th-century textile factory in the heart of Santiago. It will be part of a new mixed-use urban quarter. The masterplan extends onto an adjacent site, towards the plant’

Foster + Partners   Israel   In the heart of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem stands this research facility for the scientific exploration of the brain. The upper three levels are shaded by an aluminum screen with patterns representing drawings by the Spanish neuroscientist Sa

Foster + Partners   United States   Crowned by a large roof, the office building designed by the British firm led by Norman Foster for PGA Tour recently opened beside the Ponte Vedra Sawgrass golf club in Florida. The three-story building is arranged around a central atrium, maximizing

Foster + Partners   United Arab Emirates   Close to the airport, 10 kilometers from the center of Sharjah, stands this two-floor building by the British firm Foster + Partners. Overhangs 15 meters wide shade the facades against the sun, and aluminum lattices varying in density filter solar ra

Foster + Partners   United Kingdom   The refurbishment of original structure, designed by Cedric Price with Frank Newby and Lord Snowdon in 1962, provides a new walk-through home for the zoo’s troop of Colobus monkeys and includes a new education and community center...

Foster + Partners   Switzerland   InnHub La Punt is a new centre for innovation in the heart of the Engadin valley that seeks to bring new visitors together with the local community to increase prosperity, create new jobs, and revitalize local crafts and produce. It is based on the i

Foster + Partners   Luxembourg   Open and flexible, the building is arranged in two wings that enclose the central atrium. The entire volume is wrapped by a distinctive orthogonal facade and roof which emphasizes the efficient structural grid and gives the building a unified industr

Foster + Partners   Spain   The introduction of stepped timber floors within an industrial building from 1905 creates terraces sheltered by a historic roof. The structure allows for spatial flexibility and integrates lighting and ventilation. The project also includes a new cou

Foster + Partners   Canada   With 80 floors and 306 in height, the tower is a clearly articulated building that differentiates the commercial units at lower levels from the apartments above. The structural frame is expressed on the facade, becoming a distinctive addition to the

Foster + Partners   United States   With a form that is a pure expression of the function, the tower is divided into three stacked volumes, with the core placed to the rear. Standing alongside icons by Mies, Saarinen, and Johnson, it is the first office block to go up on Park Avenue in

Foster + Partners ArchitectsHafeez Contractor   India   Designed with the highest sustainability standards, the new administrative capital of Andhra Pradesh is organized by an urban grid with a green spine running through its length. The project includes the Legislature Assembly and the High Court complex

Foster + Partners   Sweden   New Slussen is one of the largest urban transformation projects in Sweden. The design seeks to create a dynamic urban quarter, responding to its historic context and transforming the labyrinth of traffic in the new city center. New public spaces and

Foster + Partners   Turkey   With its large undulating timber roof cantilevering 7,5 meters, this private house designed by Norman Foster’s firm is partly embedded into the terrain close to the Aegean Sea, in the southwestern Turkish province of Mu?la. Carefully inserted into a

Foster + Partners   China   Norman Foster’s firm has won the competition to design the new offices of the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba. The location is Shanghai’s Xuhui Riverside area, with views of the Huangpu River and the Pudong CBD. Thought out from the inside out, a gr

Foster + Partners   France   Known for the eponymous wine it produces, the territory of the Jurisdiction of Saint-Émilion – composed of eight villages and their vineyards – was listed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, as a cultural landscape. The design unveiled by the British

Foster + Partners Luis María Uriarte   Spain   The proposal restores the original entrance of the museum and turns Plaza Arriaga into the new heart along the museum’s spine. A new structure rests across the buildings of 1945 and 1970, adding 2,000m² of gallery space on a single, open flexible fl

Foster + Partners   Spain   The British architect Norman Foster has with the Basque Luis María Uriarte won the competition to revamp Bilbao’s Museum of Fine Arts, which wanted 2,250 square meters of its current floorage renovated and at least 5,140 square meters added, and in a

Norman Foster   In October 2020, as UN Patron for Cities, I launched the Forum of Mayors in Geneva. Nineteen months later, the world’s population has increased by 151 million. Most have ended up in cities. Why? Because cities offer more opportunities, wealth, libera

Just like Mr. Pump in Hergé’s cartoons, Norman Foster has a true passion for automobiles, a devotion which in his architecture has made him pursue beauty and high technology in equal shares. Making the world an accomplice in his vision, the British a

Foster in Bilbao

Norman Foster   The extensive exhibition curated by Norman Foster at Bilbao’s Guggenheim celebrates the influence wielded by the automobile on modern culture.

Foster + Partners designed Dome-Home for the Goodwoof’s Barkitecture competition, which results in the Single Kennel Design Award. The canine event will take place on 28-29 May at Goodwood House in Chichester, southeast England. Bonhams will auction

Arquitectura Viva and its director, Luis Fernández-Galiano, understand and regret the discomfort caused by the series Conversations. Filmed between 2013 and 2018, this documentary series of Fundación Arquia, now being streamed on Netflix, was left un

On 28 April in New York, Foster took part in a UN General Assembly meeting on the implementation of the New Urban Agenda...

The Telegraph   Josie Ensor   Joe Barnes   The renowned British architect wants to contribute to the Ukrainian city's reconstruction and is focused on developing a master blueprint. The British architect Lord Foster is drawing up plans for the “high-tech” post-war revival of Ukraine’s second

On view through 18 September at the Guggenheim Museum of Bilbao is an exhibition curated by Norman Foster that throws light on the artistic facet of the automobile. ‘Motion: Autos, Art, Architecture’ considers affinities between technology and art, s

The Guardian   Tim Lewis   Lord Norman Foster, the 86-year-old architect, is mostly known for things that don’t move: grand, iconic edifices such as the Gherkin and the British Museum’s Great Court in London, the Reichstag in Berlin and the Apple Park campus in California, com

Art News   Katya Kazakina   The work goes up for sale on March 1 in London. The ‘anonymous’ seller of a prized trophy painting by Francis Bacon going to auction next month at Christie’s has been identified: Norman Foster... Exclusive: Artnet News Has Identified the Seller of a

Before they became the property of liberal states – that is, before they became ‘modern’ – museums were simply collections: clutters of artistic objects which sometimes reflected the exquisite tastes of a prince, lord, or dilettante, but always had a

Norman Foster   I am so deeply saddened by the loss of my oldest and closest friend, Richard Rogers. Over the time since we met, almost exactly sixty years ago as students at Yale University, Richard has been a kindred spirit. In a first of its kind, we collaborate

Norman Foster   I am so deeply saddened by the loss of my oldest and closest friend, Richard Rogers. Over the time since we met, almost exactly 60 years ago as students at Yale University, Richard has been a kindred spirit. In a first of its kind, we collaborated o

Luis Alemany   Imagine that Renzo Piano is a cell. The nucleus of his DNA would be an image of the shipyards of the city of Genoa; if the cell were Norman Foster, the helix would be the sequence of a science fiction cartoon strip; and if the cell were the duo Jacqu

Norman Foster   From 6 to 8 October the Palais des Nations in Geneva was the venue of a meeting of ministers from states belonging to the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE). The member states agreed to endorse Regional Action Plan 2030, which seek

The Richest   Vrushali Padia   Architects who become popular for making iconic monuments make big bucks off their skills. A combination of three disciples of engineering, environmental science, and art, Architecture is an influential career. As the countries continue to grow and h

Financial Times   Jackie Daly   The British architect on his plans for building the cleaner, greener cities of the future. Lord Foster has conceived some of the world’s most iconic buildings – The Gherkin in London, Berlin’s The Reichstag, Cupertino’s Apple Park and the headquarter

Building   Elizabeth Hopkirk   The UK's largest architecture studio Foster + Partners has entered into a strategic partnership with Hennick & Company, which sees the private investment firm become the studio's largest shareholder. The move means that the Toronto-based family firm

Norman Foster developed sketches to illustrate the regional action plan for the UNECE region “Place and Life in the UNECE – A Regional Action Plan 2030: Tackling challenges from the COVID-19 pandemic, climate and housing emergencies in region, city,

Expo 2020 officially opened in Dubai on 1 October. Like so many other premium celebrations, it is being held a year later than it was supposed to be, delayed by Covid-19. Themed ‘Connecting Minds, Creating the Future,’ the first major international e

Bloomberg    Norman Foster, the British architect famous for building airports, minimized the aviation industry’s impact on climate change in an interview with Bloomberg. “I would argue that everything has a footprint, and in relative terms, the carbon footprint

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Norman Foster   The library of Manchester is arguably one of the most important buildings of my life in terms of influence. There I disovered Le Corbusier’s Towards a New Architecture, the work of Henry-Russell Hitchcock on Frank Lloyd Wright… I discovered those wor

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Textos y dibujos

Jorge Sainz   1975-2020

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Madrid  2019  
Fundación Arquia    - 120 Pages 

Foster + Partners   London  2019  
Foster + Partners   - 540 Pages 

Carlos Solé Bravo   El sueño de la casa tecnológica

José Manuel Ballester   Norman Foster Foundation

Norman Foster   Madrid  2017  
Norman Foster Foundation   - 304 Pages 

Elena Ochoa    Madrid  2013  
Ivorypress Carré d'Art   - 420 Pages 

Deyan Sudjic   A life in architecture

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Drawings, 1958-2008

Milan  2010  
Abitare   - 204 Pages 

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Thomas Weaver   Arquitecturas 1990-2002

David Jenkins   Múnich  2003  
Prestel Publishers   - 580 Pages 

Hubert-Jan Hencket   Rotterdam  2002  
Nai010 Publishers   - 411 Pages 

Norman Foster   Londres  2000  
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Norman Foster David Jenkins   Múnich  2000  
Prestel Publishers   - 816 Pages 

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