Product Description: This book follows the evoloution of Millau Viaduct in southern France from first sketches through to completion, as designed and executed by Foster + Partners, with engineer Michel Virlogeux. Spanning the spectacular gorge of the River Tarn in Southern France, the Millau Viaduct provides a critical link in the A75 autoroute between Clermont-Ferrand and Beziers...read more

Product Description: How Robert Sainsbury and Norman Foster built a great museum. Witold Rybczynski is an architectural writer with a superlative style, a uniquely humanistic approach to his subject, and an enormous reputation. The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts at the University of East Anglia was Norman Foster’s first major commission and the project that set him on the road to fame and fortune...read more

Product Description: Featuring unparalleled depth of detail and insightful commentary, this latest addition to the comprehensive survey on Norman Foster, the Pritzker Prize-winning architect, focuses on works from the 1980s to the early 1990s. Norman Foster: Works 2 explores several of the architect's most recognizable buildings, including the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank Headquarters in Hong Kong, which virtually reinvented the office tower; the Sackler Galleries at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, a project that epitomizes the effective intervention of contemporary design within historical buildings; and the Carre d'Art in Nimes, which unified architecture and urbanism to create a vibrant new cultural core at the heart of the city...read more

Product Description: James Elliott Foster gives us over 100 poems and 40 illustrations to describe what he sees and how he feels about the world around him. Reflections is a very personal and very unique view of the world, but it also speaks to the human condition...read more

Product Description: In Germany's seat of government, the Reichstag, the walls speak. Covered in graffiti by victorious Soviet soldiers in 1945, they had been obscured until 1995, when they were rediscovered by architect Norman Foster and his team. Preserved by Foster as part of his conception of the Reichstag as a "living museum" of German history, these anti-German scribblings became a hotly debated subject: some charged that the graffiti was racially offensive and best erased, while others argued that its preservation betokened a salutory effort to learn the lessons of the past...read more

Product Description: This catalogue reflects the work of Norman Foster, who was awarded the Pritzker Prize, the architectural equivalent of the Nobel Prize, and is a survey of the work of his practice with descriptions of more than 120 buildings and projects, from the 1960s into the new millennium...read more

Product Description: "The nature of colour should change -no longer just a thin layer of change, but something that genuinely alters perception" -this stipulation of Rem Koolhaas is echoes by the world famous architects and designers Alessandro Mendini and Norman Foster...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A landmark in the history of the British Museum and one of Norman Foster's most significant projects to date, the Great Court has reclaimed and reinvigorated one of London's most important public spaces, transforming the Museum. Published to coincide with a major retrospective of Foster's work held at the British Museum, this volume brings together essays, design drawings and photographs to provide an account of the development and completion of Foster's project...read more

Product Description: This is an anthology of writings on Foster, and by Foster, spanning 30 years, from the earliest days of the practice to the present. It includes discussions of all Foster's major buildings and projects, from early work with team 4 to recent landmarks such as the Reichstag and Hong Kong International Airport...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Berlin is in the throes of a frenzied building boom to put the heart back into this cultural and political metropolis. At the centre of what will soon be Germany's new seat of government is Sir Norman Foster's revolutionary design for the lower house of the German Parliament, constructed within the shell of the world-famous Reichstag building...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Recounts the history of the Reichstag building in Berlin, describes its original appearance, and discusses its meaning in German history and its restoration in the 1990s. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: Foster and Partners is one of the world''s le ading architectural firms. This monograph includes illustrat ions and photographs of projects undertaken by the company t hat range from light fittings and graphics to whole cityscap es. '

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Product Description: The new edition of this authoritative sourcebook has been revised and expanded to show construction estimators and contractors everything they need to know about estimating--from the initial planning stage to the final price. The third edition now covers change orders and computer bids and pricing, and includes new forms, metrification, improved graphics, and updated calculations...read more