Books & the Arts / The building’s dramatic and dazzling feats of architecture make it appear as if it were hovering above the ...

It has been at least three years since Norman Foster was last in Hong Kong ... In the mid-1980s, his design for the HSBC headquarters in Central propelled him to international fame, thanks ...

Highlights include the HSBC Building in Hong Kong – which ... success over many years with minimal compromises on design quality? Norman Foster: Easier for others to answer, but I will try.

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 ...

Foster's 44-storey Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) headquarters put his company on the map as a global brand and set it on the path to becoming one of the largest architecture ...

Whether it’s Antoni Gaudí’s dreamlike façades, Oscar Niemeyer’s sculptural modernism, or Jeanne Gang’s sustainable towers, ...

Garden design is a collegiate affair for Kate Seddon. This she makes clear from the moment we sit down in the kitchen of her ...

We worked at great pains to preserve that. Your career covers 40 years. What has been your favorite design? The Reichstag, for example, is completely powered by renewable forms of energy.

Gateway to Venice’s Waterway is an urban mobility collaboration between the Norman Foster Foundation and Porsche and the star of the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale; architects from the foundation ...