Norman Foster

Julia Tarabarina. Tolerant Aesthetics of Terraforming

The World Expo is a gigantic event; it is difficult to give it one definition or cover it at a glance. All the more so – such an ambitious and record-breaking fair as the one that is now open in Dubai despite all the pandemic restrictions. By no means claiming to present an all-rounded review, we are making an attempt to examine Expo 2020, where signs of aesthetic tolerance of a developer project begin to loom behind the imposing-looking “wings” of “star” architects and delights from space exploration.

Alla Pavlikova. Zaha in Skolkovo: Sberbank's Technopark

A review of the results of the contest for the best project of Sberbank Technopark in Skolkovo: the winning project by Zaha Hadid and four others. The Chief Architect of Moscow, Sergey Kuznetsov, named this competition the most important event of the year.

Vladimir Belogolovsky. Lord Norman Foster. Interview by Vladimir Belogolovskiy

We continue the publication of a series of the interviews intended for the catalogue of Russian pavilion XI Venetian biennial. We remind that in a pavilion exposition participate 16 Russian architects and 10 foreigners who build in Russia. One of them – Norman Foster, whose bureau Foster+Partners conducts seven projects in Russia at the moment