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Architect Norman Foster, who designed HSBC's Hong Kong HQ, reflects on his legacy
When Foster won a competition to design the HSBC Building in 1979, he envisaged assembling it like a machine, with prefabricated components manufactured off-site. The steel structure was made from ...
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Lusail Towers: Norman Foster on how to ‘reinvent the tall building’
Lord Norman ... tall buildings. His portfolio boasts iconic structures such as London’s 30 St Mary Axe (better known to Londoners as the “Gherkin”) and the HSBC building in Hong Kong.
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70 ‘extraordinary’ Hong Kong buildings and urban spaces designed by local architects feature in new book Untold Stories
Bank of China Tower? I.M. Pei. HSBC Building? Norman Foster. Raymond Fung Wing-kee wants to change that. His book, Untold Stories: Hong Kong Architecture, sheds light on 70 local buildings and ...
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Norman Foster: ‘The older I get, the more I realise it’s not about the building but about the city’
Ascending the long escalators of the Pompidou Centre to visit a show about Norman Foster ... Centre in Norwich and Hong Kong’s HSBC HQ (then the most expensive building ever) or a design for ...
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Architect Norman Foster, who designed HSBC’s Hong Kong HQ, reflects on his legacy
It has been at least three years since Norman Foster was last in ... to explore and experiment, building on the spirit that led to projects such as Hong Kong’s HSBC HQ and airport.