Norman Foster turns 90! A review of the star architect's work: From high-tech icons to sustainable urban development – he ...

However, it was his 1997 Commerzbank Tower in Frankfurt am Main ... company Holcim and his nonprofit research institute, the Norman Foster Foundation, showcasing a new low-carbon concrete to ...

The sun never sets on English architect Norman Foster's projects ... advocating green architecture on a daring scale: The 53-story Commerzbank in Frankfurt, with operable windows and a vertiginous ...

Norman Foster is one of the blessed ... near London), the sustainable commercial tower (Commerzbank in Frankfurt), the corporate icon (the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank) and urban place-making ...

In celebration of his 90th birthday today, we've rounded up 12 key projects from the nearly six-decades-long career of Norman Foster. From his beginnings as a high-tech pioneer to leading an ...

According to studio founder Norman Foster, the skyscraper models ... Models of the National Bank of Kuwait, Commerzbank Headquarters in Frankfurt, and the Hearst Tower in New York were also ...

As far as tallest towers in the EU goes, Frankfurt’s 850-foot-tall Commerzbank Tower (1997 ... s 815-foot Torre Cespa (2008), another Norman Foster–helmed project, round out the EU’s ...

Initial sketches of the Commerzbank Headquaters, Germany and the Carre d’Art, Nimes are some of the latest extracts from a new book that documents the creative process of designers ‘I sketch all the ...

Commerzbank clearly had pretensions to grandeur. They were most obvious in the 259-metre Norman Foster-designed tower it had commissioned as its headquarters — at the time the tallest building ...

The London-based architecture firm, founded by Norman Foster, is behind such iconic buildings as the city’s 30 St Mary Axe, otherwise known as the Gherkin, the Commerzbank headquarters in ...