Foreign Office Architects - FOA : Information + Images

Practice News Foreign Office Architects to be dissolved as husband and wife co-founders - Alejandro Zaera-Polo and Farshid Moussavi - split up. More details online soon. Key Building Yokohama International Port Terminal, Tokyo, Japan 2002 photograph from Foreign Office Architects via RIAS in 2004 Yokohama Ferry Terminal : architecture competition winner Practice Information FOA founded 1993 by Alejandro Zaera Polo (Spanish) & Farshid Moussavi (Iranian) ; they met at Harvard University, USA and worked together at OMA. Zaera Polo and Moussavi married in 1993. Foreign Office Architects - Buildings Aerospace Valley project, nr Toulouse, France 2008- Montaudran Aerodrome redevelopment Auditoria Park, Barcelona International Forum of Cultures, Spain 2004 photo © adrian welch Auditoria Park Spain : Parc dels Auditoris Like the Yokohama Ferry Terminal also by Foreign Office Architecture this intervention fuses landscape with sculpture to make architecture: flowing and undulating tessellated strips run along the seafront to make 'man-made dunes'. Azadi Cineplex, Tehran, Iran - BBC Music Centre, White City, northwest London, England 2006 Competition win in 2004 Belgo restaurant, Ladbroke Grove, west London, UK 1998 Birmingham Library, central England, UK 2008- Shortlist of 7 practices Birmingham Library Competition Carabanchel 16 – housing, Madrid, Spain 2007 photograph © Sérgio Padura Carabanchel Housing Cineplex + John Lewis Store, Leicester, England 2007- D38 Zona Franca Office Complex, Barcelona, Spain 2008-09 with Arata Isozaki Dulnyouk Publishers HQ, Paju Book City, nr Seoul, South Korea 2006 Euston Station Regeneration, London 2008- Euston Station : for British Land / Network Rail Hadspen Parabola - Competition Winner, Somerset, England, UK 2007- Hadspen Parabola Highcross Leicester, Leicester, England 2008 image from ArcelorMittal John Lewis Leicester at former The Shires Shopping Centre La Rioja technology transfer centre, Logroño, La Rioja, Spain 2007- Masterplan for 2012 Olympic Games, east London 2012 Selected in 2004 with Allies & Morrison, HOK Architects and EDAW London Olympic Games Architecture Meydan-Umraniye retail complex, Istanbul, Turkey 2007 Police Station, Costa Blanca, Spain - Ravensbourne College building, London 2006- image : Glowfrog Studios Ravensbourne College Spanish Pavilion, Expo 2005 2005 Torrevieja Theatre, Spain 2005 Trinity EC3 tower, London, UK 2007- image from Beetham Foreign Office Architecture : for Beetham, revised due to new protected view Shortlisted Project As part of United Architects Ground Zero project, New York, USA 2003 Current Foreign Office Architects Building Latham House Redevelopment, Aldgate, City of London, UK for the Beetham Organisation Yokohama International Port Terminal, Japan photo from Foreign Office Architects via RIAS in 2004: Saturo Mashima Foreign Office Architects - Exhibitions + Education + Teaching + Books