Norman Foster

Foster's Russian skyscraper laid low by crisis

reuters.com
14 hrs ago 12 related
        

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Construction of Russia Tower, a 6OO-meter (1,970 foot) steel and glass symbol of new Russian wealth and power designed by Norman Foster to be Europe's tallest building, has been halted for lack of funding,...

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Animal prints

news.com.au
17 hrs ago
        

IN the desert Disneyland that is Dubai, it seems anything is possible. Indoor ski resort with chalets? Check. Man-made islands shaped like a map of the world? Absolutely. World's tallest tower? It would have been rude not to....

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architecturalrecord.com: Luigi Bocconi University, in Milan, designed by Ireland’s Grafton Architects architecturalrecord.com

World’s Best Buildings Honored at Festival

architecturalrecord.com
yesterday
        

By Tim McKeough Every year, there are scores of festivals, conferences, and exhibitions catering to architects. Add another one to the list: the World Architecture Festival, which was presented for the first time from Oct. 22...

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Italian Designer: Osvaldo Borsani

bharatbhasha.com
Nov 19, 2008
        

in which Osvaldo Borsani was born into, was made up of designers since his brother also collaborated with him in his design works. Osvaldo Borsani joined Politecnico di Milano in 1937 where he enrolled for a course in...

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Foster + Partners ~ Hearst Tower ~ Wins International Highrise Award 2008

artknowledgenews.com
Nov 18, 2008 1 related
        

Frankfurt, Germany - New York’s Hearst Headquarters Tower designed by Foster + Partners has won the International Highrise Award 2008, which is worth EUR 50,000. The award was bestowed on Lord Norman Foster during a festive...

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Subway station architects intend to cheer you up

thestar.com
Nov 17, 2008 1 related
        

elcome to the better Better Way. In anticipation of the extension of the Spadina subway north from Downsview, the TTC has hired a gaggle of globe-trotting architects to design six new stations. Among them are two leading U.K....

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Jonathan Glancey: Frozen skyline as architecture works out how not to come to a halt in the...

guardian.co.uk
Nov 17, 2008 1 related
        

'I didn't lose any work in the first recession I experienced," says Zaha Hadid, "because I didn't have any work." This was the early 1970s, the time of the three-day week, when the lights of Great Britain Ltd appeared to be...

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Standing (ren)ovation

thestar.com
Nov 15, 2008
        

PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY BRETT LODGE/ TORONTO STAR POLL What's your favourite new temple of culture? After an absence of what seems like decades, building design once again matters in Toronto. Torontonians don't necessarily like...

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Utopia in the desert

rediff.com
Nov 14, 2008 3 related
        

Two years ago, the investment fund of the oil-soaked city of Abu Dhabi handed Sultan Al Jaber $4 billion and a 2.5-square-mile parcel of desert. Jaber, a petroleum engineer, had proposed that with all of its wealth from selling...

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Economic turmoil halts glitzy condo project

theglobeandmail.com
Nov 14, 2008
        

Tony Pappajohn's Greek immigrant parents spent half a century building up a modest empire of apartment and commercial buildings in Vancouver.After taking that business into big-time development, Mr. Pappajohn this week had to...

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