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Fosters becomes latest practice to pull out of Russia

By 2022-03-07T10:26:00

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Architect joins Chipperfield, McAslan and others in halting projects

Foster & Partners has become the latest practice to confirm it has stopped work on all projects in Russia.

It joins a string of others including David Chipperfield Architects, John McAslan & Partners and LDA Design in announcing it will no longer work in the country which has been waging a brutal war on Ukraine for the last 12 days.

Fosters, which had two projects in the country which were at an early stage, issued a brief statement late on Friday saying: “We deplore the Russian invasion of Ukraine and as a result we have stopped work on all our projects in Russia.”

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