A nice touch as you enter the newly refurbished and extended Norton Museum in Palm Beach, Florida, on the wall of acknowledgements it says in the characteristic font which has been used throughout the Museum: ‘FOSTER & PARTNERS 2019 – NORMAN FOSTER, FECIT’. Opened earlier this month, on the 9th of February, the relatively simple, […]
When Robert Adam designed the classical interiors of Osterley Park on the outskirts of London, he also designed in intricate detail the furniture, the mirrors and other details including the ironmongery on the elegant doors. There is a long tradition of architects such as Robert Adam, William Kent, Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, Frank Lloyd Wright and […]
While the headlines this week are about the USA and Cuba improving relations, an international project has quietly been under development in Havana: the creation of a new ballet school in the derelict Cuban National Art School complex. The brainchild of the international ballet dancer Carlos Acosta who is currently directing, producing, and dancing in […]
New designs by Norman Foster and Frank Gehry for a neighbourhood of 1300 homes as the third phase in the redevelopment at Battersea Power Station in south London were published yesterday. What a contrast between the two architects – Foster creates a cool well-mannered design that builds on his other work nearby; Gehry in contrast […]
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