All Foster & Partners articles – Page 45

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    Foster’s back in frame for tallest tower

    2005-04-15T00:00:00Z

    Foster & Partners is back in the running to design the tallest building in central London since Centre Point and BT Tower in the 1960s.

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    Fosters win asserts its civic supremacy

    2005-04-08T00:00:00Z

    Foster & Partners has been appointed to design the first home of the UK Supreme Court in a move that confirms the practice’s predominance in London’s civic space projects.

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    Fosters model-making legend Chris Windsor dies, aged 50

    2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

    One of the founders of Foster & Partners’ model-making department has died, aged 50.

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    Fosters peace mission

    2005-02-25T00:00:00Z

    Senior staff at Foster & Partners wrestled with their consciences before deciding to design an ostentatious “Palace of Peace” for a regime universally criticised for its poor human rights record.

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    MP puts pressure on Fosters to join BDs 50/50 Campaign

    2005-02-11T00:00:00Z

    A Labour MP and former chair of the all-party group on architecture this week urged Foster & Partners to finally back BD’s 50/50 Campaign for More Women in Architecture.

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    Fosters fine art

    2005-02-04T00:00:00Z

    Refurbishment of Norman Foster’s Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts at the University of East Anglia in Norwich has started on site. The project, led once again by Foster & Partners, is the first major refurbishment of the arts centre since it was completed in 1978. The project will provide a ...

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    Fosters up the Strand

    2005-01-28T00:00:00Z

    Foster & Partners has won planning permission for its first luxury hotel in London.

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    Foster’s square dance

    2005-01-14T00:00:00Z

    Norman Foster has once again proved to the world that he remains at the top of his game by securing the prestigious commission to redesign Parliament Square — the heart of British democracy.

  • The Sage viewed through  the Millennium Bridge with the Tyne Bridge beyond.
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    Glazing over

    2005-01-07T00:00:00Z

    Foster’s big gesture at Gateshead’s Sage Music Centre — a single unifying membrane-like envelope — isn’t new for the architect. But practice hasn’t made perfect, and while the concert halls succeed, the external form disappoints again and again

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    Fosters partners hand over

    2004-12-03T00:00:00Z

    Six senior architects at Foster & Partners have been handed day-to-day control of the business in a move that sees the senior partners take on overseeing roles.

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    Ian Simpson takes over from Foster on South Bank scheme

    2004-11-26T00:00:00Z

    Ian Simpson Architects is working on a “large mixed-use scheme” on London’s South Bank after a Foster & Partners design for the same site was scrapped.

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    Foster & Partners to lead team on Arizona university scheme

    2004-11-26T00:00:00Z

    Norman Foster is set to touch down in Arizona to design another major university project.

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    Glass cancer hits Foster’s City Hall

    2004-11-05T00:00:00Z

    Investigators called in after several panels crack

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    Foster: bigger and better

    2004-10-22T00:00:00Z

    Stirling Prize winner claims firm is “richer and more creative” than ever

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    Mayor to ref Foster argy-bargy

    2004-10-01T00:00:00Z

    The Mayor of London Ken Livingstone is to appeal to Foster & Partners to end its dispute with a small art gallery situated close to the practice’s London office.

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    Foster quits NYC tower

    2004-07-09T00:00:00Z

    Foster & Partners has quit a controversial 100m tower scheme in New York after concern from local residents over the scale and massing of the project.

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    Foster's loses Elephant job

    2004-06-18T00:00:00Z

    Architects at Make have pinched the next phase of the Elephant & Castle project from under the noses of their former employer, Foster & Partners.

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    Foster's to slim tower for tenant

    2004-06-11T00:00:00Z

    Foster & Partners has been forced back to the drawing board to scale back and redesign one of the City of London's next landmark towers.

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    Foster in running for Harvard

    2004-05-28T00:00:00Z

    Foster & Partners is in the running to masterplan the future development of Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts.

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    Foster's imperial blue

    2004-05-28T00:00:00Z