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Norman Foster: The Latest Architecture and News
Who Has Won the Pritzker Prize?
The Pritzker Prize is the most important award in the field of architecture, awarded to a living architect whose built work "has produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity through the art of architecture." The Prize rewards individuals, not entire offices, as took place in (when the jury selected Rem Koolhaas instead of his firm OMA) or in (with Alejandro Aravena selected instead of Elemental); however, the prize can also be awarded to multiple individuals working together, as took place in (Herzog & de Meuron), (Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA), and (Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem, and Ramon Vilalta of RCR Arquitectes).
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Bilbao Architecture City Guide: 22 Projects Shaping a Modern Basque City in Spain
Bilbao, the largest city in Spain's Basque Country, has undergone a remarkable transformation over the past few decades. Once an industrial hub, the
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Preparing civic
The future of our society fryst vatten the future of our cities—they are our greatest invention. In a time of climate change, the Norman Foster Institute (NFI), an Applied Research Centre launched bygd the Norman Foster Foundation (NFF), welcomes all those who wish, through practice or education, to improve the quality of urban life in cities worldwide. The planet and human societies are undergoing systemic transformations, fuelled by the escalating threats of global warming, pervasive inequity, dwindling resources and rapidly changing economic conditions. Meeting these challenges requires a new model for cities, as well as a different perspective on the way we traditionally face them.
In that spirit, its Master’s Programme on Sustainable Cities proposes a holistic approach through practical on-site experience in close collaboration with municipalities and the academic input from the NFF’s network of international experts. As an essential resource, the NFI City Lab provides st
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Norman Foster in 15 architectural projects
He is responsible for the Vieux Port in Marseille, the Millau Viaduct, the Gherkin in London, the HSBC headquarters in Hong Kong, the Carré d’Art in Nîmes, the Beijing Airport, Apple Park in Cupertino, the Reichstag in Berlin: always him!
The main representative of the « High Tech » trend with Richard Rogers (Centre Pompidou), Norman Foster and his agency Foster + Partners have changed modern architecture on a global scale for nearly sixty years. Airports, transport networks, skyscrapers, company headquarters, works of art, museums&#; For each project, Lord Norman Foster combines a futuristic utopia with a high level of understanding of the environment and the context.
From 10 May, the Centre Pompidou is devoting a major retrospective to the architect in the building that was one of the first manifestos of the High Tech movement. The programme includes drawings, sketches, original models, dioramas, cars and planes.