All Foster & Partners articles – Page 40

  • The Willis Building
    News

    Fosters’ return customer

    2008-05-16T00:00:00Z

    Fosters & Partners unveiled its latest addition to the City of London skyline this week with the official opening of the 28-storey Willis Building more than three decades after Norman Foster designed his landmark hi-tech Willis Faber building in Ipswich.

  • News

    Foster prizewinner to study transport links

    2008-05-09T00:00:00Z

    Foster & Partners has awarded a £6,000 travelling scholarship to a student of Rizvi College of Architecture in Mumbai.

  • News

    Foster's tax status questioned in parliament

    2008-05-02T16:26:00Z

    Norman Foster’s tax affairs have been raised in Parliament following BD’s exclusive report last week that he has become a Swiss resident.Liberal Democrat peer and treasury spokesman Matthew Oakeshott — who aims to force “tax-dodging” peers out of the House of Lords — questioned the actions of the Foster & ...

  • Features

    Foster banks on the public

    2008-05-02T00:00:00Z

    Norman Foster’s Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation HQ, July 1985

  • Features

    Foster and Rogers both feature in rich list

    2008-04-28T18:12:00Z

    Norman Foster is the highest ranked architect on this year’s Sunday Times Rich List, with a personal fortune of £250 million after tax.The £250 million fortune makes Foster the UK’s 325th richest person this year, down 76 places on 2007 when his war chest was valued at £295 million.Last week ...

  • As a Swiss resident, Foster would make huge tax savings but could lose his seat in the Lords.
    News

    Foster under pressure to reveal tax status

    2008-04-25T00:00:00Z

    Labour and Lib Dems claim Swiss residency for tax reasons conflicts with seat in the Lords

  • News

    Norman Foster's tax status questioned in Parliament

    2008-04-24T13:54:00Z

    Lib Dem peer raises questions over BD's claims Foster has become a Swiss resident

  • The 1980 building under threat
    News

    Foster’s Orange would squash Soviet masterpiece

    2008-04-11T00:00:00Z

    Russian architecture experts have condemned an iconic design by Norman Foster because it involves the replacement of a Soviet-era building considered by some as the “best in Moscow”.

  • Technical

    Foster & Partners solves a roofing condundrum at Washington DC’s Smithsonian

    2008-04-11T00:00:00Z

    A roof joining together three domes is reminiscent of Foster’s earlier triumph at the British Museum

  • News

    Foster and OMA up for Birmingham library

    2008-04-04T00:00:00Z

    Seven firms including Foster & Partners, Foreign Office, Hopkins, Wilkinson Eyre and OMA are competing to design a replacement for John Madin’s Library of Birmingham.

  • News

    Foster’s public square for Dallas

    2008-03-28T00:00:00Z

    Foster & Partners has revealed designs for its Annette Strauss Artist Square in Dallas, Texas.

  • Masterplan with library in pink
    News

    Koolhaas and Foster on shortlist for new Birmingham library

    2008-03-27T18:32:00Z

    A glittering shortlist of seven firms including Foster & Partners, Foreign Office, Hopkins, Wilkinson Eyre and OMA are competing to design a replacement for John Madin’s Library of Birmingham.In an announcement released today, Birmingham council confirmed the names, alongside Danish firm Schmidt Hammer Lassen and Dutch firm Mecanoo, following consideration ...

  • Sean Griffiths
    Opinion

    The Foster supremacy

    2008-03-14T10:37:00Z

    A week of surreal experiences at Mipim is topped by the sight of Norman Foster, flanked by villainesque Russian henchmen, lavishing praise on fire escapes

  • News

    Artists oppose Foster’s scheme

    2008-03-14T00:00:00Z

    Artists Tracy Emin, Dinos Chapman and Rachel Whiteread have joined the campaign opposing the redevelopment of Bishop’s Place, between Shoreditch and Brick Lane in east London, masterplanned by Foster & Partners for Hammerson.

  • Abu Dhabi World Trade Centre design
    News

    Fosters Abu Dhabi WTC

    2008-03-14T00:00:00Z

    Foster & Partners’ latest Middle East project, the Abu Dhabi World Trade Centre, has been unveiled at the Mipim property fair in Cannes.

  • Foster & Partners' Abu Dhabi World Trade Centre.
    News

    Foster's unveils Abu Dhabi World Trade Centre

    2008-03-11T17:16:00Z

    Foster & Partners' latest Middle East project, the Abu Dhabi World Trade Centre, has been unveiled at the Mipim property fair in Cannes.Part of a new waterfront city, the scheme will be the main building at Al Raha Beach, creating a peninsula at the eastern end of the semi-circular marina.The ...

  • A proposed Las Vegas hotel development includes architects  Foster & Partners, Daniel Libeskind, Raphael Viñoly, KPF and Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects.
    News

    Foster and Libeskind bet on Las Vegas...

    2008-02-29T00:00:00Z

    Foster & Partners, Daniel Libeskind and Helmut Jahn of Chicago-based Murphy Jahn Architects have designed three neighbouring buildings as part of an $8 billion development in Las Vegas, touted as the largest privately financed project ever constructed in North America.

  • News

    Foster’s Beijing ‘gateway’ opens

    2008-02-29T00:00:00Z

    Foster & Partners’ Beijing Airport terminal (pictured above) opened on Tuesday.

  • Terminal interior
    Building Study

    Foster's Beijing airport terminal opens

    2008-02-27T14:26:00Z

    Foster & Partner’s new terminal at Beijing airport has opened ahead of the 2008 Olympics.

  • News

    Cabe again rebuffs Foster’s plan

    2008-02-15T00:00:00Z

    Cabe has once more slammed Foster & Partners’ Arcadia development at Ealing Broadway, west London.