Built on the north side of Piazza de San Marco, one of the most recognizable squares in the world, the Procuratie Vecchie was designed by the architects Mauro Codussi, Bartolomeo Bon and Jacopo Sansovino in the first half of the 16th century, under t
At the beginning of the nineties ten young men abandoned what was then Czechoslovakia to follow their religious convictions and enter the Cistercian abbey of Sept-Fons, in Burgundy. At the end of that same decade, the increasing number of Czech monks
El impresionante paisaje virgen del parque nacional de la costa suroeste de Gales se encuentra salpicado de abruptos acantilados y tranquilas playas. Esta orografía proporciona unas vistas espléndidas desde las praderas y las suaves colinas que coron
El empresario hotelero Ian Schrager ha puesto en práctica un nuevo concepto de alojamiento, conocido como ‘hotel-boutique’ y concebido como parque de ocio urbano. Tras el éxito de sus hoteles en NuevaYork, Miami y Los Ángeles ha inaugurado el St Mart
La definición de esta zona ha sido uno de los procesos más arduos en el desarrollo de los contenidos de la Cúpula del Milenio. Los cambios sucesivos en su denominación —alma, espíritu y fe—reflejan la modificación de la idea inicial, crear un ámbito
Engineering and architecture are complementary disciplines in this project, that renews the transportation system of the city and converts it into an optimistic symbol of rebirth. The connection between Bilbao and its metropolitan area is expressed c
Situado en la península de Greenwich y próximo a la Cúpula del Milenio, el nuevo intercambiador es un elemento vital en el plan de transportes londinense. Será un catalizador del desarrollo de un nuevo barrio y aliviará la congestión de tráfico de la
Concept-designed between 1993 and 1995, these landmark buildings share a preference for almond shapes and tapered volumes, and a simplistic belief in the ability of the curve to call attention and raise the symbolic profile of a structure. In the Val
After the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989, German unification followed, and soon the decision was taken to move the capital back to Berlin. The old Reichstag (a clumsy 19th century building damaged during the war, and scantily used since, associated
Transformed into a global office, Foster Associates began to have a large proportion of its workload abroad. Hong Kong had opened up the Pacific Rim, and Nîmes would be the first significant commitment on the other side of the Channel, soon to be fol
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
Having built many distinguished office buildings, Foster Associates were considered specialists in the type, and the booming eighties brought several commissions. After the cancellation of the BBC project, the Mexican Televisa headquarters would have
Stansted airport (1981-1991) takes from Renault the modular forest of masts, and from Hong Kong the shafts of four cylindrical steel pillars; but the exposed fan of cables of the distribution centre is here a knot of braces that hold together the bra
The coordination of structure and services in containers of rigorous modularity and immaculate detailing had been the main constructional challenge of the Foster team during the sixties, and this interest in the flexible fast-track shed was extended
While the genial amoeba of Willis Faber & Dumas was extruded vertically from the ground print, Norman Foster experimented with horizontal extrusion in smaller buildings. This process, which, through a repetitive structure, rationalised constructi
Before 1996, Foster’s symbolic presence in London had been limited: a luminous gap in the Royal Academy and a clearing job at the British Museum. Most of the other works were offices of varying quality: from the laconic elegance of his own office, th
