Topic: Norman Foster
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British architect Norman Foster has won the contract to design Hong Kong's HK$21.6 billion ($2.8 billion) arts hub, nine years after triumphing with an earlier plan that was later scrapped.Foster and Partners' "City Park" design for the ...
In case you believe that Gustave Eiffel's influence ended with his renowned Eiffel Tower , you are quite mistaken. As President Jacques Chirac declared, "'The Millau Viaduct is a magnificent example, in the long and great French tradition, of audacious works of ...
So it came to pass that Cadbury, having been swallowed by Kraft, began to lose its executive spark.. Kraft, of course, said it would never happen but a full list of departures from the British company's senior ranks tells a different ...
Sir Norman Foster's notoriety - or more precisely, his legacy - amongst the world's greatest architectural thinkers became prominent when he was chosen to redesign Germany's Reichstag building. For Norman Foster it was an architectural coup and a challenge he could ...
Sir Norman Foster's wind-swept City Hall building isn't the most notable structure in your eye-line when casually strolling down the south bank of the River Thames. The tourist in me was far too busy snapping pictures of Tower Bridge to ...
Lord Ashcroft, the Tory party's biggest donor, has given up his non-domiciled tax status to keep his seat in the House of Lords, the Conservative Party confirmed on Wednesday.Using the "non-dom" tax status, the Conservative Party deputy chairman was for ...
The architectural world in 1993 was dominated to a considerable extent by the personality of the British architect Sir Norman Foster. In December it was announced that Foster, 58, was winner of the annual Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architects ...
Born June 1, 1935, Norman Foster grew up in a working class family. But Norman Foster went on to achieve knighthood, a Pritzker Prize, and a RIBA Gold Metal. Join us for a photo tour of the high-tech modernist buildings that made ...
Among the handful of fractional-ownership programs offered worldwide, YachtPlus stands out for the brazenly futuristic styling of its planned fleet. Built by Rodriquez and designed by Foster + Partners, Ocean Pearl bears the same radical styling, metallic paint job, and 41-meter (134-foot) LOA ...
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Norman Foster to cut 350 jobs
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Norman Foster at conference 'Architecture and Sustainability'
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