Comments on On An Overgrown Path: Norman Foster's Sainsbury Centre

Follow this link for a Norman Foster thread over ...

2006-06-26T19:54:31.926+01:00

Follow this link for a Norman Foster thread over on Garth Trinkl's ever relevant Renaissance Research blog.

Sir Norman Foster's homepage (www.fosterandpartner...

2006-06-25T16:57:01.436+01:00

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.

Thanks for that link Konrad, there are a lot of re...

2006-06-25T07:50:06.480+01:00

Thanks for that link Konrad, there are a lot of really useful resources there - particularly the Photo Gallery.

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.

If only the 'completions' of musical fragments such as Elgar's Third Symphony were delivered with such imagination and panache.

One of Norman Foster's latest completed projects i...

2006-06-24T23:50:03.693+01:00

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/ .