tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post113049158218423921..comments2024-03-26T15:57:13.443+00:00Comments on On An Overgrown Path: Norman Foster's Sainsbury CentreUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-1151348071927060232006-06-26T19:54:00.000+01:002006-06-26T19:54:00.000+01:00Follow this link for a Norman Foster thread over ...Follow <A HREF="http://renaissanceresearch.blogspot.com/2006/06/sir-norman-fosters-contextual-new.html" REL="nofollow">this link</A> for a Norman Foster thread over on Garth Trinkl's ever relevant <I>Renaissance Research</I> blog.Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-1151251021437312482006-06-25T16:57:00.000+01:002006-06-25T16:57:00.000+01:00Sir Norman Foster's homepage (www.fosterandpartner...Sir Norman Foster's homepage (www.fosterandpartners.com) is also a good destination, with an index of all his projects, including recent designs for unbelievable constructions in Russia, a skyscraper in Moscow and an amphitheater in New Holland, close to the Mariinskii in Petersburg. I wonder if the Russian oligarchs (and the government consequently) will still have enough money to fund these projects to their completion.Konrad von Swalwagnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10555220408386604184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-1151218206480595132006-06-25T07:50:00.000+01:002006-06-25T07:50:00.000+01:00Thanks for that link Konrad, there are a lot of re...Thanks for that link Konrad, there are a lot of really useful resources there - particularly the Photo Gallery.<BR/><BR/>What makes the Hearst Tower unique among Norman Foster buildings is the way it is grafted onto Joseph Urban and George P. Post & Sons original 1928 International Magazine Building on Eighth Avenue. <BR/><BR/>If only the <A HREF="http://theovergrownpath.blogspot.com/2005/12/another-elgar-discovery-will-it-never.html" REL="nofollow">'completions'</A> of musical fragments such as Elgar's Third Symphony were delivered with such imagination and panache.Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-1151189403694519982006-06-24T23:50:00.000+01:002006-06-24T23:50:00.000+01:00One of Norman Foster's latest completed projects i...One of Norman Foster's latest completed projects is the Hearst Building near Columbus Circle, in New York. Check out at http://www.hearst.com/tower/ .Konrad von Swalwagnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10555220408386604184noreply@blogger.com