‘I’m devastated it’s closing’: London shoppers say farewell to Fenwick
Department store on New Bond Street, which opened in 1890s, closes its doors this weekend
October 2023
Britain’s most influential modernist architect? In praise of the lost buildings of Georgie Wolton
Wolton, who died in 2021 aged 87, helped launch Richard Rogers and Norman Foster. Her dilapidated London home is almost all that remains of her fearless work
July 2023
Observer New Review Q&A
Architect Norman Foster: ‘I suppose in another life it would have been exciting to fly fighters’
The designer of the Gherkin on collaborating with Steve Jobs, feeling positive about humanity’s future and the strong work ethic of the north
April 2023
English wine centre in Kent hopes for planning approval within days
Kentish Wine Vault aims to transform industry and produce English rival to prosecco
March 2023
Dormant volcanoes and working monorails: the grand designs of Ken Adam, master of the Bond-villain lair
A new book celebrates the late production designer whose elaborate concepts for films from Bond to Dr Strangelove influenced the likes of Norman Foster – and it all started with a felt-tip
September 2022
Tony Hunt obituary
Structural engineer who built the Sainsbury Centre in Norwich and the huge biodomes at the Eden Project in Cornwall
April 2022
Lord Norman Foster: ‘I still get the same buzz from designing buildings’
Norman Foster has designed some of the world’s most visually sumptuous buildings, from the Gherkin in London to the Reichstag in Berlin. Now 86, the pioneering architect shows no signs of slowing down
January 2022
Norman Foster’s architecture firm almost doubles profits
Foster + Partners buoyed by Middle East expansion in year ending April 2021 despite global lockdowns
November 2021
New York billionaire told to revise plans for ‘temple to a titan’ penthouse
Government throws out plans for 305-metre Tulip tower in London
September 2021
Tulip, Summit, Mound: can urban properties really be ‘experiences’?
India Block
Developers are harming cities like London and New York by asking the public to visit and help monetise their monstrosities
December 2020
The Observer's obituaries of 2020
Terence Conran remembered by Norman Foster
From the Guardian archive
Sir Norman Foster, the architect’s architect – archive, 1996
How we made
'A lost space awaiting rediscovery' – how we made the British Museum's Great Court
Norman Foster pulls out of climate coalition in row over aviation
November 2020
Notebook
The Tulip’s towering vanity must be nipped in the bud
Rowan Moore
There’s no evidence the 305-metre ‘cultural attraction’ would boost confidence in the Covid-battered City of London
October 2020
Inner visions: inside the homes of the world’s most creative people
From Zandra Rhodes’s Rainbow Penthouse, to Grace Coddington’s Long Island retreat, what do the homes of top creatives reveal about them? By Sam Lubell
September 2020
Brief letters
Headless chickens can still run a coup
McLaren plans to sell then lease back Woking HQ after sales slump
July 2020
Climate activists slam Norman Foster over Saudi airport
Architect is ignoring his own environment pledge, say critics
