The Zayed National Museum has opened its doors in Abu Dhabi’s Saadiyat Cultural District as a tribute to Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan (1918-2004). Created to trace the history and showcase the culture of the United Arab Emirates, it extols the l
Abu Dhabi is centralizing its architectural icons in the heart of Saadiyat Cultural District, where the new museum by Foster+Partners goes up. Not far from the Louvre Abu Dhabi and the upcoming Guggenheim, Zayed National Museum traces the identity of
The new headquarters of the financial company JPMorganChase in Manhattan at 270 Park Avenue has had its grand opening. Rising 423 meters and 60 floors, it is now New York City’s sixth-tallest edifice, adding to the Big Apple’s architectural history.
The cluttered mesh of streets characteristic of Arabian cities has been reproduced by means of a computer model in order to optimize bioclimatic protection...
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
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
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
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
Lusail Stadium, centerpiece of the 2022 FIFA World Cup, officially opened on 9 September with the Lusail Super Cup final between the winners of the professional leagues of Saudi Arabia and Egypt – Al Hilal SFC and Zamalek, respectively. Designed by F
Ombú, developed by Acciona, is the project to recover a Neo-Mudéjar industrial warehouse in Madrid, originally built in 1905 by Luis de Landecho. The historic envelope and the load-bearing structure that supports the pitched steel trusses have been p
In Sharq, the financial district of the city of Kuwait, this 300-meter-tall skyscraper by Foster+Partners uses passive and active measures to keep its water and energy consumption low. Through a combination of structural innovation and energy efficie
This retrofit project breathes new life into a historic industrial building in Madrid, creating a sustainable exemplar of building reuse and revitalizing the surrounding area. With over 10,000 square meters of new office space, the project unifies a
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
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...
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
The Holy See is featured for the first time at the Venice Architecture Biennale, with a unique proposal curated by Francesco Dal Co. Consisting of ten chapels, the concept takes inspiration from the chapel Erik Gunnar Asplund built in Stockholm’s Woo
Steered personally by Steve Jobs in tight collaboration with Norman Foster, Appes new headquarters, with its exact circular shape, evokes the perfection pursued by the Californian company.
Abandoned for many decades, to the point of extreme disrepair, the Kulm Eispavilion in the Alpine resort village of St. Moritz – built in 1905 and used as venue of the Olympic Winter Games held in 1928 and 1948 – has been refurbished with two princi
Una configuración escénica flexible es la protagonista de este prisma de aluminio estriado, cuyo interior acoge una serie cajas apiladas de diferentes alturas que contienen el programa.
Located in the French region of Médoc, Château Margaux is a Premier Cru and one of the world’s leading wine producers. Since it was built in the early 19th century, the Bordeaux estate has evolved to meet changing operational requirements, but no lon
Evoking the desert experience, the pavilion presents two large walls stretching sinuously to offer a long exhibition route that ends in a small oasis.
Through a contemporary reinterpretation of sustainable technologies and the urban planning principles that are built into traditional Arab settlements, the mission of Masdar City is to create a desert community that is carbon neutral and zero waste.
In 2007, the British team and URS Corporation won an international design competition to build the first private spaceport in the world: the New Mexico Spaceport Authority Building. Spaceport America’s anchor tenant is Virgin Galactic, launched in 20
Queen Alia International Airport continues the practice’s explorations of the airport terminal as a building type and sets out a vision for an environmentally sensitive, regionally apt, airport architecture. Designed to serve as the main gateway to A
Carrying the day over more modest buildings, such as the Tate Gallery in Cornwall, the Bushey Jewish Cemetery, and the Storey’s Field Community Center and Nursery in Cambridge, Norman Foster has for the third time landed the RIBA Stirling Prize throu
The selfish giant of Oscar Wilde’s popular short story closed his garden to the children, and with them the spring went away. The technological titans of our days control ever more exclusive domains, but their reckless behavior can bring winter to th
Bloomberg’s London headquarters, designed by Norman Foster, is the world’s most expensive office building. One can tell from its volume, which by far exceeds that of any of its neighbors in the fragmented and highly dense fabric of the heart of the C
Market research, so much a part of popular culture, made us see Steve Jobs as a genius obsessed with creating objects so perfect that they could become objects of desire, things we needed without knowing it: technological fetishes with curved edges.
Relatively few architects have solved the challenge of giving physical expression to the desire for a legacy. Of course any architect’s oeuvre is itself a physical expression of his or her legacy, and for most, the built work that they leave behind w
Even in the short time of my involvement as a trustee of the Norman Foster Foundation in this ‘futuristic’ project, the future has become a reality. We all know that technology is moving so fast that we can’t keep apace of developments. But in the ca
Using architecture as an emblem, sometimes as a technological lure, is nothing new. Suffice it to remember the recurring association of avant-garde buildings with automobiles, a link forged in times of Le Corbusier and continuing to this day. But aft
Sir Richard Branson, fundador de Virgin Galactic, ha inaugurado en Nuevo México (EE UU) la terminal desde la que partirán los primeros turistas espaciales. Diseñada de acuerdo al proyecto de Foster + Partners —que, junto a la consultora URS y el estu
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
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
The new airport of Hong Kong, a project recently completed by the British Norman Foster, is the largest construction of our times.
