Foster + Partners has revealed its designs for a 71-hectare teaching and medical facility in Mexico City upon notice of their appointment to the project. Campus Biometropolis masterplan in the south of the city will integrate care facilities with high tech teaching spaces, research institutions and laboratories and feature a vital new nature reserve showcasing the Pedregal lava fields as a highlight of the design.
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Foster + Partners, together with PHA and Mobility in Chain, has won an international competition to design the masterplan for the expansion of the Incheon Free Economic Zone, an extensive mixed-use scheme encompassing the islands of KangHwa and OnJin-gun, to the north west of Seoul. Conceived as a self-sufficient, sustainable development, the 300 square-kilometer masterplan will extend organically from a central transportation spine, creating a center for green industry and serving a population that is expected to grow from 35,000 to 320,000 residents and commuters.
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Invited as one of five pre-selected architect led teams, Danish architects Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) was awarded first prize in an open international design competition which included 19 entrants amongst others Lord Norman Foster and Zaha Hadid.
The new National Library in Astana, named after the first President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, encompasses an estimated 33,000 sq m.
BIG’s design merges four forms – a circle, a rotunda, an arch and a yurt – into an ‘infinite loop’ with a single double-looping surface plane covering the entire building.
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The design for the Queen Alia International Airport combines function, technology and a distinct sense of place to provide a greatly expanded and enhanced gateway to the region.
Completion due in 2010.
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Hermitage Plaza is an ongoing project by Foster + Partners in Paris. The complex will create a new community to the east of La Défense, in Courbevoie, that extends down to the river Seine with cafés, shops and a sunny public plaza at its heart.
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Occupying an entire city block between the Marina Center and the Civic District, the scheme designed by Foster + Partners will create a 150,000 square meter eco-quarter in downtown Singapore that continues the Singaporean ideal of the ‘city in a garden’ with its lush planting and sky gardens.
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As part of the creation of a new high-speed rail network, the Italian Government has instituted a major program of station restructuring, including the creation of many new stations. The design by Foster + Partners for Florence Station provides a new facility that will connect with the city’s existing Santa Maria Novella station via a new tramline.
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The practice Foster + Partners has designed a new winery for the Faustino Group, 150km north of Madrid in the Ribera del Duero, one of Spain’s foremost wine-producing regions. Form follows function to striking effect, with the complex processes rationalised to create the optimum conditions for wine production.
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