tag: norman foster
Central Park News
posted 01.11 in news.
This Fairfax video link is promotion masquerading as information. Nonetheless it is worth a look if only for the theatrical performance of garden wall guru Patrick Blanc. The topic is the Central Park development in Sydney – the Atelier Jean...
Hearstiography
posted 01.11 in news.
For a limited time, SBS online is showing Up To The Sky Episode 1: The Hearst Tower, a half hour german documentary (with English narration). It’s a mildly interesting doco, if you can call it a documentary – it is rather gushingly...
Qatari stadia
posted 12.10 in news.
When Qatar was announced as host of the FIFA 2022 Soccer World Cup, what was I to do but see what they were proposing? It sounded scary at the outset – 12 or so air conditioned stadia working against midsummer temperatures floating around...
Hearst Tower
posted 09.10 in resources.
The triangled Hearst Tower by Foster & Partners, first tower out of the ground in NYC after 9/11. The video (in the full listing) gives a look-around, though is heavy on the building’s green cred. Nothing wrong with that, but it is...
Ian Moore profile
posted 05.10 in resources.
Expat kiwi Ian Moore talks the NZ Herald through his career – being an engineer at Arups, the switch to architecture, Engelen Moore and Sydney, and new work in Auckland at Wynyard Quarter . On Norman Foster: “He’d organise...
Norman on the green agenda
posted 06.09 in resources.
Video from the 2007 DLD conference in Germany. “Green is cool”, says Norman. 32 minutes.
Fat scraper
posted 01.08 in news.
Lord Norman has just received planning approval for “Crystal Tower” in Moscow. The 500m tall building has a pretty wide base of 620m, and has been likened to a transparent wigwam. Some local architects weren’t too hot on it –...