The $16m New York penthouse fit for a UK civil servant
Exclusive: Luxury apartment next to UN headquarters to be used by senior diplomat charged with seeking post-Brexit trade deals The government has bought a $15.9m (£12m) seven bedroom luxury New York...
View Article'Tulip' tower project in City of London vetoed by Sadiq Khan
Design of proposed 300–metre skyscraper by Norman Foster’s firm deemed not good enoughPlans to build a 300-metre (1,000ft) skyscraper dubbed “the Tulip” in the City of London near the Thames have been...
View ArticleSadiq Khan has rejected the Tulip. But that won’t save London’s skyline |...
The mayor has been as bad as Boris Johnson in bowing down to speculators. If only his interest in design had kicked in soonerTulipmania is no more. London’s mayor, Sadiq Khan, has rejected Norman...
View Article'It didn't matter if someone liked it': six architects and designers revisit...
From a beach cafe to a social housing ziggurat: this is where it all began for Norman Foster, Asif Khan and othersAmenity centre and passenger terminal for Fred Olsen, Millwall docks, London, 1969-70I...
View ArticleNorman Foster: 'Manchester town hall and my local library were the buildings...
The architect, who left school at 16, on breaking into the business by drawing through the nightWinston Churchill said: “We shape our buildings, thereafter they shape us.” The first building that...
View ArticleClimate activists slam Norman Foster over Saudi airport
Architect is ignoring his own environment pledge, say criticsOne of Britain’s most famous architects is under fire for agreeing to design an airport and terminal in Saudi Arabia despite signing a...
View ArticleMcLaren plans to sell then lease back Woking HQ after sales slump
Group hopes to free up £200m from sale of complex designed by Norman FosterCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe supercar and Formula One racing group McLaren is planning to...
View ArticleHeadless chickens can still run a coup | Brief letters
Norman Foster | Prince Andrew | British summer time | Conservative takeover | Sir Jim Ratcliffe | Jesus savesHurrah for Norman Foster (The pandemic will accelerate the evolution of our cities, 24...
View ArticleInner visions: inside the homes of the world’s most creative people
From Zandra Rhodes’s Rainbow Penthouse, to Grace Coddington’s Long Island retreat, what do the homes of top creatives reveal about them?Colour has always played a central role in the career of designer...
View ArticleThe Tulip’s towering vanity must be nipped in the bud | Rowan Moore
There’s no evidence the 305-metre ‘cultural attraction’ would boost confidence in the Covid-battered City of LondonThe Tulip is a proposed 305-metre high “cultural and tourist attraction” in the City...
View ArticleNorman Foster pulls out of climate coalition in row over aviation
Firm withdraws from Architects Declare after criticism of work on series of airportsOne of the UK’s most famous architects has withdrawn from an environmental coalition in a dispute about the...
View Article'A lost space awaiting rediscovery' – how we made the British Museum's Great...
As the soaring 3,312-piece glass roof celebrates its 20th birthday, its creators recall the risks, setbacks, and unexpected discoveries – and that time Nelson Mandela paid a visitIt’s hard to imagine...
View ArticleSir Norman Foster, the architect’s architect – archive, 11 December 1996
11 December 1996: Sir Norman, despite Lord Rogers’s wheel and dome, is the man bent on designing the next millennium for BritainAnd the winner is… For architects and followers of architectural news...
View ArticleTerence Conran remembered by Norman Foster
4 October 1931 – 12 September 2020The architect celebrates the enduring influence of his friend across design, food, fashion and many other aspects of modern British lifeJuliette Gréco remembered by...
View ArticleTulip, Summit, Mound: can urban properties really be ‘experiences’? | India...
In cities like London and New York, developers are having to draw people back to the areas they priced them out ofWhat do a fake hill, a giant light-up ball, gondola rides 300 metres in the air,...
View ArticleGovernment throws out plans for 305-metre Tulip tower in London
Decision welcomed by Historic England, which said building would have been ‘visually intrusive’ and ‘highly incongruous’Controversial plans to build a 305-metre high tower in the City of London have...
View ArticleNew York billionaire told to revise plans for ‘temple to a titan’ penthouse
Bill Ackman’s plan to build on top of a historic Manhattan building overlooking Central Park failsThe billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman has been told to revise his plan for a penthouse...
View ArticleNorman Foster’s architecture firm almost doubles profits
Foster + Partners buoyed by Middle East expansion in year ending April 2021 despite global lockdownsThe architecture practice run by Sir Norman Foster almost doubled its profits as it expanded in the...
View ArticleLord Norman Foster: ‘I still get the same buzz from designing buildings’
Norman Foster has designed some of the world’s most visually sumptuous buildings, from the Gherkin in London to the Reichstag in Berlin. Now 86, the pioneering architect shows no signs of slowing...
View ArticleTony Hunt obituary
Structural engineer who built the Sainsbury Centre in Norwich and the huge biodomes at the Eden Project in CornwallIf it had not been for Tony Hunt’s formidable skills as a structural engineer, the...
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