Eminent modernist British architect Norman Foster was named the recipient of the second annual Philip Hanson Hiss Award. Foster, of the eponymous architecture firm Foster + Partners, is celebrated for ...
Recent projects from Foster + Partners have seen the high-profile British firm enlivening its architecture with significant amounts of greenery, as in the Magdi Yacoub Global Heart Centre and One ...
Future British architects may not have to go through the same full-time education as their predecessors. Aspiring architects in the U.K. will now be able to participate in architecture apprenticeships ...
The shortlist highlights completed buildings, landscapes, and innovative future architectural concepts, divided into 33 categories, ranging from residential, cultural, and creative reuse. The ...
"It's quite evident that you're prepared to abandon traditional ways of sitting," Bernard Keeffe exclaims as he collapses into a bright yellow beanbag in Norman Foster's home. "For years," he ...
Work is underway on an interesting new office project by Foster + Partners that involves renovating a dilapidated industrial building in Madrid, Spain, that's over 100 years old. The firm will retain ...
One of the UK’s largest architecture firms has unveiled plans for a verdant new “city within a city” in Vietnam. The new 290-acre (about half a square mile) district will be built around a long “spine ...
At 87, the British architect is being honored with a major retrospective that glances back on some of his greatest buildings and toward his vision for the future. By Farah Nayeri Norman Foster in ...
It’s been well over 50 years since Norman Foster hopped into a VW with two fellow Yale architecture students and drove cross-country to Los Angeles to see Case Study Houses that were assembled from ...
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If there’s one thing London needs right now, in the midst of opaque Brexit haggling and a fuzzy economic outlook, it’s clarity of vision — the figurative kind. Trust an architect to take that metaphor ...
“I always tell people who work with me, ‘I wouldn’t ask you to do anything I wouldn’t do,” says Marty Hylton III. “But then I tell them, ‘The thing is, I’ll do anything.’” It’s an attitude that’s ...