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Foster Triumphs In Competition To Design NYC Skyscraper
Yesterday, we featured the Hearst Tower by Foster + Partners in our roundup of New York City’s best architecture completed in the past decade. Now comes news that the UK-based firm has won a commission...
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Foster + Partners To Lead $3 Billion Toronto Convention Center Facelift
The Metro Toronto Convention Centre may be getting a $3 billion makeover. In light of the city’s new casino zoning laws, announced last week, Oxford Properties Group has wasted no time, already...
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Zaha Hadid Enters Bid For Qatar World Cup Stadium
Photo: courtesy of Steve Double Travel the world, and chances are you will run into a Zaha Hadid work: from Ohio and Oklahoma to London and Spain to Abu Dhabi and China, where her Galaxy Soho complex...
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Unveiled: 425 Park Ave Finalist Designs By Hadid, OMA, And Rogers
Image © Foster + Partners When it was announced earlier this month that Foster + Partners had triumphed in the starchitect throw-down to design 425 Park Avenue , we wondered how the winning design...
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Grand Central Terminal, The Next 100 Years: Schemes By Foster, SOM, And WXY
Image © Foster + Partners Have you ever seen Grand Central Terminal at rush hour? It’s a proverbial rat race. Thousands of people are running, pushing, zipping in and out of crowds and lines, and past...
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Video: SOM, WXY, and Foster + Partners Describe Plans For Grand Central
Architizer worked with MAS to produce this video about future plans for the area around Grand Central Terminal. When it comes to ranking Beaux-Arts architecture here in New York City, Grand Central...
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Foster, Gehry, And Nouvel To Speak About Future Museums At Abu Dhabi Art Fair
Foster + Partners’ Zayed National Museum; Image: Foster + Partners Over the past several years, Abu Dhabi has been host to some of the world’s greatest architectural excesses–mankind’s tallest...
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Who Made The Cut? 7 Teams Shortlisted For Massive Art Park In Hong Kong’s...
Image courtesy of the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority In case you’ve lost track of all the (oft-absurd) mega-projects now under way in Asia, Hong Kong is in the midst of building one of the...
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Foster + Partners Break Ground On First U.S. Residential Building
Foster + Partners have just broken ground on their very first residential building in the United States. And where else would this gleaming tower of luxury be, if not New York City! The 44-story...
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Why The Starchitect? Foster Unveils Plans For New York Public Library
Renderings: Foster+Parnters Yesterday, the press huddled in the Trustee’s Room of the New York Public Library—the “one with the lions”—to hear Norman Foster speak about Foster+Partners’ latest designs...
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Ada Louise Huxtable, Trailblazing Architecture Critic, 1921–2013
Huxtable in the 1960s, photographed by her husband, the industrial designer L. Garth Huxtable. Ada Louise Huxtable, America’s first newspaper architecture critic and a pioneer of the form, died...
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Nvidia One-Ups Apple’s Spaceship With An Alien Colony
Image courtesy of Gensler and Kilograph In a culture that seems constantly in thrall to Apple, it’s easy for the designers of our gadgets’ tiny guts to get short shrift. Who’s going to notice the nano...
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A+ Finalist Spotlight: Cultural Facilities
Today’s A+ finalist spotlight includes museums, theaters, and cultural centers around the world. And trust us, these buildings are as beautiful and rich as the art that they hold. Click through to see...
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Is This Norman Foster’s “Coolest” Project In Years?
The last time we checked in with Norman Foster, he was planning to 3D print lunar base using materials harvested from the moon. (Moon rocks? Moon-stuff?) Back on earth, the famed architect found some...
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Grand Opening: Queen Alia International Airport By Foster + Partners
Project: Queen Alia International Airport Architect: Foster + Partners Location: Amman, Jordan Foster + Partners recently announced the opening of a new terminal for the Queen Alia International...
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Foster + Partners Designs Luxury Highrise For Miami
This Foster + Partners-designed luxury tower in Miami Beach doesn’t much resemble the rest of the work in the famed firm’s portfolio, but it nonetheless is an elegant addition to their oeuvre....
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