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British architecture studio Foster + Partners has revealed its masterplan to rebuild Antakya, Turkey, following the Turkey-Syria earthquakes last year.

Foster + Partners worked with engineering consultant Buro Happold, transport planner Mic-hub, and Turkish practices DB Architects and KEYM Urban Renewal Centre on the city masterplan, which focuses on a 30 square kilometre area of Antakya, the capital of Turkey's Hatay province.

It forms part of the Turkish Design Council's wider plan to rebuild Turkey after the earthquake, which took place on 6 February 2023, destroying multiple cities and killing more than 50,000 people.

Foster + Partners has unveiled its masterplan for rebuilding Antakya

The practice focused on re-establishing the pre-existing characteristics of the area and enhancing them, aiming to encourage displaced people to return.

According to Foster + Partners, around 80 per cent of the buildings in Antakya were damaged in the earthquake. The practice plans to maintain the surviving structures and create an efficient road hierarchy that encourages public transport, pedestrians and cyclists.

Aiming to design the city for resilience, Foster + Partners identified areas around rivers at risk of flooding and will create green areas around them to provide more space for water runoff while also increasing nature-filled public space.

The wider masterplan for Antakya includes 13 districts, each with its own commercial hubs and high streets designed to evoke memories of the building fabric that existed before the earthquake.

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Project go-ahead for new Manchester United training grounds. Interior fitout design by Foster + Partners.

Manchester United will start a £50m revamp of the men’s first-team building at their Carrington training complex next week, with Sir Jim Ratcliffe stating this will transform it into a “world-class” facility and improve performance.

The project, led by the renowned architect Norman Foster, starts on Monday and is expected to continue throughout next season.

Ratcliffe said: “We want to create a world-class environment for our teams to win. When we conducted a thorough review of the Carrington training facilities and met with our men’s first-team players, it was clear the standards had fallen below some of our peers.

“This project will ensure Manchester United’s training ground is once more renovated to the highest standards. Lord Foster, a fellow Mancunian, has brought some great inspiration to the design, in conjunction with the Manchester United team and we look forward to seeing the improvement to the facilities but most importantly on the pitch.”

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The Türkiye Design Council’s founder and chair, Mehmet Kalyoncu, describes the challenges of redesigning huge swathes of the country from scratch following 2023’s devastating earthquake.

On 6 February 2023 a series of three immense earthquakes racked the border area between Turkey and Syria. Beginning in the early hours of the morning, the earthquakes killed more than 55,000 people and caused devastating damage to infrastructure across both countries. 

The British Red Cross reported building collapses in Turkish cities including Adana, Adiyaman Diyarbakir, Gaziantep, Hatay, Kahramanmaras, Kilis, Matalya, Osmaniye and Sanliurfa, and in the Syrian governorates of Aleppo, Idlib, Lattakia and Hamma, as well as extensive damage in rural Damascus.

More than 37,000 buildings collapsed in Turkey alone, according to the charity, while more than 200,000 were ‘heavily damaged’, leaving ‘thousands’ living in makeshift shelters without access to basic services. 

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Humbled to be a part of the team helping with masterplanning and the rebuilding of this historic city of Antakya in Turkey following recent earthquake events.

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Recent progress on site for the Marina Tower in Athens, Greece.

Mace says it has made history in Greece, overseeing with JV partner Jacobs “the single biggest concrete pour in the history of the country” to lay the foundations for the Riviera Tower project.

“Mixed to a specification to reduce CO2 without impacting performance, over 7,000 cubic metres of concrete was poured continuously over 38 hours, with careful planning and a commitment to health & safety underpinning our success,” Mace said in a LinkedIn post yesterday.

Developed by Lamda Development, the Foster + Partners-designed Riviera luxury residential tower will be Greece’s tallest building when complete.

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It is one of four towers planned for The Ellinikon in Athens, billed as the biggest greenfield urban regeneration project in Europe.

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Foster + Partners designs "largest all-electric tower" for JPMorgan Chase in Manhattan

Ben Dreith | 18 April 2022  67 comments

Foster + Partners has released plans for the new global headquarters for JPMorgan Chase in Manhattan, which the architecture firm claims will be New York's largest all-electric tower.

The skyscraper for the finance company at 270 Park Avenue will be "New York City's largest all-electric tower with net-zero operational emissions", according to Foster + Partners.

"[It] will be 100 per cent powered by renewable energy sourced from a New York State hydroelectric plant," the studio continued.Foster + Partners will design a tower on the site of the former Union Carbide Building. Photo is © DBOX for Foster + Partners

The building will take the place of SOM's Union Carbide Building, the demolition of which between 2019 and 2022 marked it as the tallest voluntarily demolished building in the world.

With 60 storeys, the new supertall skyscraper will reach 1,388 feet (423 metres) and will be the first project in New York City's Midtown East rezoning plan.The building will be made of narrow rectilinear stepped forms. Photo is © DBOX for Foster + Partners

Designs for the structure of the tower show a series of rectilinear forms pressed together – like a stepped deck of cards – with the tallest coming to an apex.

The tops of each successive step appear to be landscaped with trees and greenery in visualisations.The triangular support beams will continue into the lobby

Glass facades will be bound by metal detailing at the edges of the forms, and the broadside of the rectilinear volumes will be crisscrossed by diamond-shaped trusses.

These trusses will continue on the ground level, which tapers. The trusses will fan up from the sides of the base, making the whole structure appear to stand on stilts, beside a large public plaza on Madison Avenue.The new building will have more communal spaces

"By lifting the building about 80 feet (24 metres) off the ground, it extends the viewpoint from the Park Avenue entrance through to Madison Avenue," said Foster + Partners.

The working spaces in the tower will come to a total 2.5 million square feet (232,257 square metres).

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Foster + Partners reveals plans for Greece's tallest skyscraper

Lizzie Crook | 8 July 2021  22 comments

UK studio Foster + Partners has unveiled designs for a skyscraper near Athens named Marina Tower, which will be covered in plants and become the tallest building in Greece.

The 200-metre-tall building has been designed by Foster + Partners for Lamda Development as the centrepiece of a 620-hectare masterplan called Ellinikon on the site of Athens' former international airport.Marina Tower will become the tallest building in Greece

When complete, the skyscraper will be almost twice as tall as the current record holder – the 103-metre-high Athens Tower 1 designed by Ioannis Vikelas.

Marina Tower will be covered with greenery, which the studio claims will also make it "the first green high-rise building" in the country.It will be covered in greenery and have swimming pools on multiple levels

It will contain 200 apartments spread over 45 floors. They will all be dual-aspect to ensure unobstructed views of the coastline and natural light and ventilation.

Externally, it will be characterised by its slim silhouette that is covered in planting, which has been developed to blend in with "the special character of the Mediterranean landscape".The tower will be the centrepiece of a wider masterplan called Ellinikon. Visual is by Foster + Partners

The skyscraper will be divided into two towers, connected by multiple platforms containing swimming pools.

According to Foster + Partners, it has been designed as "one of the greenest high-rise buildings in the world and is a model of sustainable design". However, details of how this will be achieved are yet to be disclosed.Ellinikon will transform the site of Athens' former international airport. Visual is by Foster + Partners

Marina Tower is expected to open within the next five years alongside five other high-rise buildings in the Ellinikon development.

Ellinikon is being developed to transform the old airport into a series of neighbourhoods arranged around a 200-hectare coastal park. According to the studio, this will be the "largest coastal park in Europe" and "increase the allocation of open space per Athenian resident by 44 per cent".Related storyFoster + Partners unveils masterplan for forested neighbourhood in Bangkok

"Ellinikon masterplan gives new direction to urban development in Athens, bringing together new ways of living, working and playing, centred on a metropolitan park – a generous amenity for local communities and the city of Athens," said Foster + Partners senior partner Antoinette Nassopoulos-Erickson.

"Our proposals for Marina Residential Tower builds on these sustainable principles to generate a new paradigm for high-rise living and a green beacon in the landscape."

The masterplan includes the "largest coastal park in Europe". Visual is by Foster + Partners

Foster + Partners is an international architecture practice founded by Norman Foster in London in 1967. Elsewhere, it is also developing a pair of plant-covered apartment blocks for a site in Beverly Hills.

Covering buildings with greenery has become a popular trend in architecture in the last decade. Heatherwick Studio recently completed a skyscraper in Singapore with balconies overflowing with plants, while Ingenhoven Architects created Europe's largest green facade for an office in Düsseldorf.

However, French landscape architect Céline Baumann told Dezeen that while this trend is ultimately positive, plants can be used as a way to greenwash developments.

The visuals are by DBOX for Foster + Partners unless stated.

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