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ABC Radio National: The life and architecture of Lord Norman Foster. In a recent interview on ABC Radio National, Norman Foster reflects on his career, highlighting his philosophy of architecture as both civic and humanistic, emphasising how buildings shape communities and embody cultural values. He speaks about the importance of sustainability, innovation, and collaboration in design, noting how architecture must adapt to technological change while remaining rooted in human experience. The discussion comes as the current exhibition in Sydney exhibition Civic Vision, which showcases drawings, models, and architectural achievements from Foster + Partners, offering insight into the creative process. The discussion coincides with Civic Vision, the current exhibition from Foster + Partners in Sydney that presents drawings, models, and architectural achievements from Foster + Partners, offering a window into the creative process. 🎧 Listen back: https://brnw.ch/21wXUAb Foster + Partners | Civic Vision 📍 Level 2, Parkline Place, 252 Pitt Street, Sydney 📆 Daily until 21 December, 09:00–18:00 🎟️ Free entry #Architecture #Exhibition #Sydney #Australia Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)

Missed us this year at Autodesk University AU 2025: The Design & Make Conference in Nashville, Tennessee? We delivered a presentation on ‘Harnessing the Autodesk Ecosystem to Support Academic and Employer Partnerships’. This session explored the importance of close collaboration between employers and academic institutions within the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry. It also highlighted how Foster + Partners and Nottingham Trent University (NTU) have worked together to help nurture the next generation of talent, and the role that Autodesk tools have to support curriculum development and early BIM adoption. Watch the session back💻🔗: https://brnw.ch/21wXU0z Speakers: - Mark Lineton, Associate Partner and BIM Development Manager - Amelia Bambra, Graduate BIM & Design Systems Coordinator - Philip Shilton, Senior Lecturer / Digital Innovation Lead, Nottingham Trent University Autodesk, Autodesk University, Nottingham Trent University #AU2025 #Autodesk #WBCSD #BuiltEnvironment #NTU #Education

On 4 December, Spencer de Grey, Senior Advisor at Foster + Partners, will be delivering a special guest lecture at SHARE Architecture Awards 2025, in Dornbirn, Austria. Drawing on his experience within the practice, Spencer will share personal insights into a selection of Foster + Partners’ landmark projects spanning a range of typologies. He will reflect on the design of different masterplans, museums, offices and headquarters, offering his perspective on the sustainability considerations and design principles that have shaped these projects. 📅 4 December 2025 | 13:00 (CET) 📍Zumtobel Light Forum, Dornbirn, Austria 🎫 Tickets: https://brnw.ch/21wXS9d 📷 Images: 1: Narbo Via, Narbonne 2: Ombú, Madrid 3: New Slussen Masterplan, Stockholm 4: Bloomberg, London #Architecture #Design #Engineering #Constrution #Austria #Dornbirn #Sustainability

We’re spotlighting Zayed National Museum, which is set to open on 3 December 2025. Zayed National Museum celebrates the UAE’s rich history and Sheikh Zayed’s legacy, with a design inspired by the region’s climate and culture. The towers act as a wind tower in reverse, cool air is drawn through a duct buried in the ground and exhaled through the solar thermal chimneys, driven by thermal stack effect – creating a truly unique and sustainable symbol for the nation. Stay tuned for more updates. Zayed National Museum | متحف زايد الوطني #Architecture #Design #Museum #Culture #ZayedNationalMuseum #UAE

🌎This year, Foster + Partners participated in COP30 Brazil, contributing to conversations on the future of sustainable cities, resilience, and the role of the built environment in advancing global climate goals. Key themes that emerged across the week: • Different contexts require different pathways While developed economies face one set of built environment challenges, emerging economies face another. Frameworks such as the World Green Building Council's country roadmaps are essential to shaping locally grounded, high-impact solutions. • Resilience and low-carbon design must work together These priorities are often cast in opposition, but the most productive conversations at COP30 were about integration. A building or district cannot be considered low-carbon if it must be rebuilt after every extreme climate event: resilience and mitigation must be designed in tandem. • A rising focus on cities and the built environment With the opening day themed around sustainable cities, the built environment’s contribution to global emissions, and its potential to drive positive change, is increasingly recognised. The sector represents a major opportunity for climate action, innovation, and job creation. • Indigenous leadership and just transition Indigenous voices played a central role at COP30. Their stewardship, knowledge, and rights must be reflected in decision-making, and in shaping a truly just transition. Vernacular and place‑based approaches offer valuable lessons for the design community in shaping sustainable futures. Thank you to the partners, organisations, and delegates who shared insights and collaborated throughout the week. The conversations in Belém will continue to inform our work as we help clients and cities navigate the complex, interconnected challenges of climate, resilience, and development. Pictured: Elinor Huggett, Associate Partner and Senior Environmental Designer at Foster + Partners speaking at COP30. #COP30 #BuiltEnvironment #SustainableCities #ClimateAction #JustTransition #Resilience

Design revealed for regenerative masterplan in Greece. Masterplan designs for a mixed-use development in Thessaloniki, have been revealed. Foster + Partners has been appointed by developers, Dimand, to transform the historic FIX brewery, an iconic heritage landmark of industrial Thessaloniki, into a dynamic urban project that features vibrant public space, new homes, hotels, and a range of cultural amenities. “FIX Thessaloniki will be a major catalyst for urban regeneration across the city. Our design utilises the historic landmarks on the former industrial site to create a new destination with vibrant green public spaces and state-of-the-art amenities. The incorporation of a pedestrian and cyclist friendly public realm will maximise connectivity, as well as the civic and cultural potential of the area.” Michael Jones, Senior Partner at Foster + Partners. Situated on the seafront by the city’s western port-gate, a walkable distance from the city-centre, the scheme will be part of a wider regeneration strategy for a transforming Thessaloniki. 🔗 Find out more: https://lnkd.in/eGkunXZ8 #Architecture #Design #Engineering #Construction #Masterplan #Greece #Thessaloniki

We recently spoke at Autodesk University AU 2025: The Design & Make Conference in Nashville, Tennessee. Our session explored the topic of ‘Found in Translation: Industry Alignment of Practices to Translate BIM to Carbon’. Missed our sessions and interested in watching it back? 💻🔗 https://brnw.ch/21wXHqk This session unpacks the challenges of decarbonising buildings amid a multitude of standards and diverse BIM and carbon accounting processes used for assessing embodied carbon. Led by the WBCSD – World Business Council for Sustainable Development, Autodesk and six practices from across the AEC industry conducted a case study revealing a 34% variation in embodied carbon assessments using the same Revit model. The discussion explores the root causes of these discrepancies, the complexities of converting BIM data into carbon insights, and offers guidelines to foster consistency, transparency, and actionable assessments that advance industry-wide decarbonisation. 🌟This talk has been recognised as a Top-Rated Class at AU 2025, out of over 500 learning sessions! Congratulations to everyone in the cohort. Speakers from Foster + Partners: Retha Swanepoel, Partner and Head of BIM & Design Systems Dana Far, BIM & Design Systems Coordinator Leandro Reati, BIM & Design Systems Coordinator Andrea Colombo, Structural BIM Coordinator Key contributions to this initiative by Chris Trott, Partner The presentation and the report are the result of a great collaboration between six practices from across the AEC industry, including: Arcadis, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), AECOM, Arup, and Ramboll. Associated reports: A Path to Alignment in the Built Environment 🔗https://brnw.ch/21wXHql A Guide to Alignment in the Built Environment 🔗https://brnw.ch/21wXHqj #AU2025 #Autodesk #BuiltEnvironment #Sustainability #WBCSD

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From metro to high-speed rail: the transformative power of transport design. 🚆 Transport has integrated itself into the fabric of our daily lives and transport hubs, such as metro stations, have become vital civic centres. “Transport projects, such as high-speed rail, involve complex engineering and architectural solutions that are positioned within a civic context. We engage a human-centric approach to transport design that ensures an intuitive, accessible, and integrated experience that synthesises the scale of passengers and speed of movement to the individual experience.” Angus Campbell, Senior Partner and Deputy Head of Studio at Foster + Partners. Foster + Partners’ transport designs, demonstrate our ability to meet the technical and infrastructural demands of transport projects, whilst also creating spaces that function as central and enjoyable civic hubs, that speak to the area’s culture, history, and environment. 🔗 Read the full article: https://brnw.ch/21wXEWe #Transport #Rail #Metro #Architecture #Design #Innovation #Sustainability #Engineering #Construction

Congratulations to Lord Foster who was awarded an honorary doctorate yesterday by the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. "70 years ago I found the path that would allow me to study at university: it was a tortuous journey that lasted five years since I left school at sixteen and I was the first in my family, in fact in my neighborhood, to enter university […] Manchester and Yale universities changed and shaped my life from then on. As an architect and urban planner, I can relate what I have done since then – and continue to do now – to my years at those universities. This event is an opportunity to share those bonds, pay tribute and honor my debt to some of those extraordinary teachers.” Lord Foster, Founder and Executive Chairman, Foster + Partners Lord Foster was recognised for his ‘ability to imagine spaces that dignify life’ and his ‘profoundly humanist perspective on how we inhabit the world’, as the rector Amaya Mendikoetxea shared in her speech.