Foster + Partners   Maldives   The firm Foster + Partners has developed a masterplan for Gaafaru, an inhabited island in the Maldives, in the Indian Ocean. The project puts forward six principles to ensure a sustainable and resilient future for the island of Kaafu Atoll. Gaafaru i

Foster + Partners   Spain   Norman Foster was commissioned to renovate and enlarge the Bodegas Faustino winery in Oyón, in the comarca of Rioja Alavesa. Years after his collaboration with Bodega Portia in Gumiel de Izán (Burgos), which opened in 2010, this project for the Martí

Foster + Partners   China   The Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has officially opened new offices in Shanghai’s Xuhui Riverside district. Designed from the inside out, the building is modular and lightweight, seeking to give an image of openness and transparency. It features a

Foster + Partners   United States   The first images of the design of Foster + Partners for the tower at 1201 Brickell Bay Drive in Miami, by the seaside promenade, have been unveiled. Rising 314 meters and 54 floors, the skyscraper will contain retail spaces, the relocated headquarter

Gianni Botsford Architects   United Kingdom   Gianni Botsford’s project respectfully integrates the enlargement of a house built by Norman Foster in the late 1960s in Hampstead, north of central London. The result is a four-story building with…

Foster + Partners   Malaysia   Apple The Exchange TRX, the first Apple retail location in Malaysia, has opened in the capital. Crowned with a dome, the store rises three levels with a viewing deck above, connected to a park. From the base to the top, the 26.5 x 26.5-meter roof tra

Foster + Partners   United States   Foster + Partners have unveiled the latest schemes, drawn up in conjunction with Arup, for California High-Speed Rail’s first four stations. These will be in the cities of Merced, Fresno, Bakersfield, and Hanford. Located close to the latter, Kings T

Foster + Partners   United States   Foster + Partners’ third office tower in Park Avenue will stand at number 350, halfway between the recently completed one at 425 and the current headquarters of JPMorgan Chase at 270. Counting 139,354 square meters, the new skyscraper takes a stepped

Foster + Partners   China   This recently opened Apple store is in the heart of Shanghai’s Jing’an District. Generating a public space for encounters, a new circular plaza connects different walkways through several curving levels featuring vegetation and tiered seating from wh

Foster + Partners   United States   The first images of the office building designed by Foster + Partners for the real estate development firm The Star in Los Angeles have been made public. Located at 6061 West Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, the tower has a spiral shape and its generou

Foster + Partners   China   In the heart of the Yangtze River Delta, integrating existing water streets with new ones, this development mixes offices, dwellings, and retail spaces with a cultural center that provides a theater and exhibition galleries, under a roof that include

Foster + Partners   Saudi Arabia   The project begins with the exploration of towns and cities of Saudi Arabia, and plays with scale, light, and texture to showcase the country’s culture. The organic forms of traditional Saudi villages are evoked. Visitors enter from an esplanade wit

Foster + Partners   Saudi Arabia   Foster + Partners has won the competition to design a new terminal for the airport of Abha, the capital of Saudi Arabia’s Asser Region. Taking inspiration from the nearby village of Rijal Almaa, the winning scheme presents a series of interconnected

Foster + Partners   China   Foster + Partners has won the competition to design a new center for Hangzhou, the capital of China’s Zhejiang province. At the heart of the Yuhang District the masterplan creates a mixed-use urban quarter that is green and sustainable, establishing

Foster + Partners Arup Associates Junquera arquitectos   Spain   This flexible system organizes the ensemble by means of a geometric grid inspired by the current domes. The proposal consists of a modular terminal, a system of raised platforms, and a minimum intervention on the old passenger terminal…

Norman Foster   Italy   As part of the Venice Architecture Biennale, which runs until November 26 under the theme ‘Laboratories of the Future,’' the Essential Homes Research Project addresses the debate on universal access to essential housing. The result of a collaboration

Foster + Partners   Spain   A scheme drawn up by Norman Foster for the company Familia Martínez Zabala – which runs six wineries: Faustino, Campillo, Portia, Marqués de Vitoria, Valcarlos, Condesa de Leganza – has been unveiled. He previously carried out a design for Bodegas Po

Foster + Partners   United Arab Emirates   Foster + Partners had designed a vertiport to be built beside Dubai International Airport (DXB). Developed in collaboration with Skyports Intfrastructure, the terminal will be on a raised roof to facilitate take-off and landing for electric aircraft.

Foster + Partners   Saudi Arabia   Norman Foster’s firm has been announced the winner of the competition to design the King Salman International Airport in the Saudi Arabian capital. It is expected to be one of the biggest airports in the world, covering an area of approximately 57 sq

Foster + Partners   Poland   Norman Foster’s firm – in collaboration with Buro Happold – has won the competition to design the new CPK (Centralny Port Komunikacyjny) airport between the Polish cities of Warsaw and Lodz. Their proposal seeks a balance between operational efficien

Foster + Partners   United States   The 308-meter-tall office tower 50 Hudson Yards officially opened in Manhattan. The carefully planning of the minimized core and the section gives the flexibility needed to create new reconfigurations, with spaces free for columns and generous ceilin

Foster + Partners   China   In the Nanshan District of southwest Shenzhen, in southeastern China, two towers of 44 and 40 floors rise from podiums surrounded with vegetation. The new headquarters of the robotics company DJI, specialized in drone technology, presents cantileveri

Foster + Partners   Saudi Arabia   This research and visitor center is devoted to the marine environment and the challenges of conserving the hábitats of the Red Sea. Located in the Triple Bay Marina at Amaala, the scheme of coral forms perforated with skylights is wrapped in prefabri

Iñaki Bergera   Architecture is a spatial and material reality bound to its perceptual nature, created from the architect’s scopic and analytical baggage, documented and disseminated through an imagery filtered by the photographer’s eye. The architect decants realit

In April 2022, as a consequence of the conflict in Ukraine and in the context of the United Nations Forum of Mayors, the Mayor of Kharkiv, Ihor Terekhov, asked Norman Foster to lead the masterplan for the reconstruction of the city. The Norman Foster

Fundación Norman Foster   As part of the new concept masterplan being developed for the city of Kharkiv, the Norman Foster Foundation along with the Kharkiv City Council, UNECE, Arup and the Kharkivproject Institute are launching an international competition to improve housin

Cosmos is a modular furniture system on which the Norman Foster Foundation has been working since 2019, now produced in collaboration with Tecno and presented during Milan Design Week 2024. The main design feature is the use of the least material po

The Norman Foster Institute is now accepting applications for its Programme on Sustainable Cities, taking place in Madrid from January to December 2025. The Programme on Sustainable Cities blends hands-on experience with academic insights from the No

On Monday 22 January 2024 in Madrid, the Norman Foster Foundation launched the Norman Foster Institute’s inaugural Programme on Sustainable Cities with an event that brought together leading design practitioners, policy makers, health experts and cit

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Norman Foster has published three books which are great works. Their colossal dimensions belie the intimate attention given to every page, because the architect’s hand and gaze is all over. Taschen’s monumental two-tome monograph is signed by Philip

Six years after the opening of his foundation in Madrid, on 26 September Norman Foster headed a public launch of the Norman Foster Institute, an educational center that will draw from his indefatigable anticipation of the future to focus on cities an

The Norman Foster Foundation (NFF) presents the ‘On Climate Crisis’ Masterclass Series, a collection of video presentations delivered by ten outstanding experts in the fields of architecture, urbanism, landscape architecture, urban law, politics, and

Since the launch of the Norman Foster Foundation in 2017, its mission has been to promote interdisciplinary thinking and research to help new generations to anticipate the future. In order to respond to the growing importance of urbanisation and its

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Two British architects who have foundations in Spain were feted in the month of May: Norman Foster inaugurated the largest retrospective ever done on his work at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and David Chipperfield was awarded the Pritzker Prize at t

Deyan Sudjic   On view through 7 August at the Pompidou is the most complete exhibition ever put together on Norman Foster’s work and visionary attitude.

“In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator.” What the young Jean Cocteau wrote in relation to Les Six may well also apply to Norman Foster: after six decades of raising buildings all over the world, numerous master

60 Years of Invention

On view through 7 August at the Centre Pompidou in Paris is a journey through the six-decade career of Norman Foster. Taking up almost 2,200 square meters of floor space, the exhibition presents 130 projects of his through an unprecedented selection

The team at the Norman Foster Foundation in Madrid has been working together with an advisory board since April 2022 on a masterplan for Kharkiv, following a request from the Kharkiv Mayor to Lord Foster through the United Nations Economic Commission

Among all the Latin expressions that keep giving form to our languages, there is one in particular that has not lost an iota of applicability: panem et circenses. Coined by the poet Juvenal in referring to the peculiar political system of ancient Rom

Norman Foster   Around 83% of global energy is generated by burning fossil fuels. So, the transition from our predominantly dirty production of energy to one which is clean is at the very heart of our combating global warming. There is also a moral dimension to the

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

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