Company Announcement - The exhibition will be open at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo until 14th February 2016, with a showcase of more than 50 projects completed by the architecture firm over the years. The large-scale exhibition “Architecture, Urbanism, Innovation”, currently running in Japan at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, is sponsored and partnered by Permasteelisa. It is organized in three sections with the aim of showcasing the most significant projects among over 300 carried out by “Foster + Partners” architecture firm throughout its history.
The exhibited projects are organized into the following 3 sections:
The Architectural Philosophy behind Foster+ Partners;
From Space to Environment: the Foster + Partners Design Process;
Architecture, Urbanism, Innovation: Ideas for Future Lifestyles.
The exhibition is a detailed showcase of 50 projects selected among all projects of the architecture firm completed or currently under construction, through models, videos, drawings, sketches and computer graphics.
Permasteelisa Group sponsors and partners the exhibition, and cooperated with Foster + Partners in the engineering, construction and installation of cladding for 7 exhibited buildings, among which some of the historical projects of the studio as The Robert and Arlene Kogod Courtyard at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC, the Hearst Tower in New York City, and the Commerzbank Tower in Frankfurt.
The exhibition recounts the variety and complexity of projects developed over the years that marked the outstanding activity of the architecture firm based in London, from the construction of infrastructures to urban design projects, as well as several iconic skyscrapers that changed the urban landscape and the skyline of the major cities in the world.