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Foreign Office Architects – FOA
Farshid Moussavi + Alejandro Zaera Polo, London, UK
12 Apr 2014 – new larger photos added to this page, key building by FOA – Ravensbourne College, London:
photo : Morley von Sternberg
photo : Morley von Sternberg
28 Apr 2011
Foreign Office Architects Practice News
As announced here on e-architect a few months back, Foreign Office Architects are to be dissolved as husband and wife co-founders – Alejandro Zaera-Polo and Farshid Moussavi – split up.
The architecture practice will cease to exist from today, 28 Apr 2011. FOA was founded in 1995. Their major work is Yokohama Ferry Terminal in Japan, which brought the studio to worldwide attention.
The FOA partners will now pursue separate ventures. Farshid Moussavi will practise as Farshid Moussavi Architecture Limited and Alejandro Zaera-Polo will practise as AZPA Limited.
Current work by FOA will continue. All FOA staff will be offered positions in the two new practices.
Foreign Office Architects – Recent Major Buildings
Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Ohio, USA
A recent building by Farshid Moussavi, completed post F-O-A:
Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Design: Farshid Moussavi
photo : Dean Kaufman
Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland
Ravensbourne College building, London, UK
photo : Morley von Sternberg
Ravensbourne College
Key Building by Foreign Office Architects
Yokohama International Port Terminal, Tokyo, Japan
2002
photograph from FOA via RIAS in 2004
Yokohama Ferry Terminal : architecture competition winner
FOA
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, near Toulouse, France
2008-
Montaudran Aerodrome redevelopment
Auditoria Park, Barcelona, 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’. An early project by F-O-A Architects that helped develop their focus on tessellation, the complex patterns that have come to feature in many of their designs.
Azadi Cineplex, Tehran, Iran
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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 – the major FOA design in Spain
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 – this F-O-A project is no longer active
Hadspen Parabola – Competition Winner, Somerset, England, UK
2007-
image from the architect
Hadspen Parabola
Highcross Leicester, Leicester, England
2008
image from ArcelorMittal
John Lewis Leicester at former The Shires Shopping Centre
A commercial project for F-O-A Architects but the facades are beautifully executed.
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
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Ravensbourne College building, London, UK
2006-
image : Glowfrog Studios
Link at top of this page
Spanish Pavilion, Expo 2005
2005
Torrevieja Theatre, Spain
2005
Trinity EC3 tower, London, England, UK
2007-
image from Beetham
Foreign Office Architecture : for Beetham, revised due to new protected view
FOA – Shortlisted Project
As part of United Architects
Ground Zero project, New York, USA
2003
Building Proposal
Latham House Redevelopment, Aldgate, City of London, UK
for the Beetham Organisation
FOA – Exhibitions + Education + Teaching + Books
Yokohama International Port Terminal, Japan
photo from Foreign Office Architects via RIAS in 2004: Saturo Mashima
More projects by Design: Foreign Office Architects – F-O-A online soon
Location: London
FOA Practice Information
Awards
Venice Architecture Biennale Award, 2004
Enric Miralles Prize for architecture, 2004
Teaching Positions
Alejandro Zaera-Polo:
Yale University School of Architecture – Visiting Professor of architecture
Princeton University School of Architecture – Visiting Professor of architecture
Farshid Moussavi:
Harvard University School of Architecture – Visiting Professor of architecture
Buildings / photos for the Design: Foreign Office Architects page welcome
Website: Foreign Office Architects UK