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...
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...
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 –...
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