Shard Luck: Paris To Build Europe’s Tallest Skyscraper
To add insult to injury, the architect is British…
Norman Foster
Norman Foster Outlines Thames Estuary Airport Plans
Architect outlines plans for what would be the world’s largest airport.
In Pictures: Salon Privé
Some pretty pictures from last week’s elegant automotive event.
Bloomberg To Get New London HQ?
Bloomberg media group are expected to build new HQ on the site of Bucklersbury House in the City. Will it still look like Darth Vader’s helmet, as in original plans for the site?
Millennium Bridge Needs More Repair Work
The Millennium bridge between St Paul’s and Bankside, everybody’s favourite unsteady Thames crossing, is in need of repair work totalling £750,000, says the Corporation of London.
Harry Potter And The Architect’s Riddle
Have Warner Bros. struck some kind of weird product placement deal with Norman Foster? Posters for the new Harry Potter movie prominently feature structures designed by the architect, namely the Willis Building and City Hall. The previous flick was promoted by a Gherkin-focussed image, while …
Pictures Of Heathrow Terminal East Unveiled
BAA have released pictures of Terminal East, the confusingly-named, £1 billion replacement for Heathrow Terminal 2, which will close at the year’s end, and Terminal 1, which will shut up shop in 2019 when the new project is complete. Designed by Norman Foster’s firm, the …
Crossrail Construction Begins…Again
“We’re going to need a bigger boat” After some 20 years of scrimshanking, filibusting and fund hunting, the first piling for London’s Crossrail scheme is imminent. Gordon Brown (and his make-up bag) will be on hand later today to formally announce the beginning of enabling …
Routemaster 2.0 Revealed
Boris Johnson today revealed the winning designs for a new generation of Routemasters. And it’s a draw. The judges (who included the Mayor and a cohort of transport luvvies) chose designs by Capoco (left) and a super-combo-all-star tag team of Norman Foster, designer Todd Hutton …
Foster’s Routemaster Design Unveiled
That’s it folks, your opportunity to design a new bus for London is over. The competition closed awhile back, but if you didn’t get round to it, never mind, for like the poor kid ever-bested by his Competitive Dad in The Fast Show, a professional’s …
Condé Nast Love Wembley Stadium
After yesterday’s news about Eurostar settling well into its new home, here’s another cheery account of a London landmark that has us thinking we might not be as bad at this construction thing as T5 would suggest. Though it may have opened years late and …
