Tag: Norman Foster

  • SUPERSTRUCTURES: The New Architecture 1960-1990

    Forty years after it opened, the Sainsbury Centre plays host to an exhibition looking at the pioneering designs of architects such as Norman Foster and Richard Rogers in the latter half of the last century

  • ‘Küssen Im Park’: The Serpentine Gallery Expands

    To be known as the Serpentine Sackler Gallery, after Dr Mortimer Sackler and his wife Theresa, the prime sponsors (together with long-term Serpentine supporters Bloomberg Philanthropies), in business terms it looks set to transform the galleries’ operation. Dr Mortimer Sackler,…

  • Coming Soon: Qatar and the Emirates

    Linked by a coastline, by ambition, by energy and by sudden wealth, Qatar, Dubai and Abu Dhabi are powering a futureworld that only feels real to the first-time visitor on contact with its burgeoning infrastructure.

  • A Delicate Game of Cat-and-Mouse

    The experience of art is not merely a matter of looking at it, but thinking and talking about it. For nearly 50 years, English critic and biographer Michael Peppiatt has been getting artists to talk about the art they create,…

  • Book review: Ben Johnson. Foster in View

    Editor: David Jenkins PRESTEL. Munich, London, New York, 2010 ISBN 978-3-7913-4175-0

  • Architecture Not Now

    As we approach the second decade of the turbulent 21st century, the level playing field sought by both practising architects and by teachers and theorists appears to be more than ever transitory

  • Tales of two cities: Berlin, Dresden

    These are stirring times for architecture ‘watchers’ in Germany’s two famous cities; Berlin, the capital, and Dresden, culture capital of the south-east. The re-opening of the neo-Baroque and now restored Bode Museum in Berlin, sitting on its island and commanding…

  • Stirling Prize for Architecture 2006 (RIBA UK)

    This month, the architect, Richard Rogers, has attained a summit point in his career in winning the UK RIBA Stirling Prize. The building that has won the prize is not even in Britain, but the architect very much is. The…

  • Swiss Re, a lovable gherkin in space

    ‘If you seek his monument, look around’ – such was the epithet chosen by his son, for Sir Christopher Wren, the architect of St Paul’s Cathedral and so much else in 17th century England.

  • Norman Foster to chair Alvar Aalto Committee Charitable Trust

    The Charitable Trust, launched by Lord Foster, Finnish Ambassador Mr Pertti Salolainen and other friends of Alvar Aalto’s architecture, aims to save the Viipuri Library – one of Aalto’s greatest works.