Norman Foster interview: HSBC headquarters was "more than just a building" | Architecture | Dezeen
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2020
- In this exclusive video interview filmed as part of our high-tech series, British architect Norman Foster explains how the banking headquarters he designed in the eighties became a symbol of his global brand.
Completed in 1985, the forty-four-storey skyscraper located near the harbour in central Hong Kong, China, was instrumental in establishing Foster Associates as an international practice.
"Hong Kong bank was an extraordinary venture because it wasn't a building that could have been built in Hong Kong," Foster told Dezeen.
"Hong Kong then did not have the technology, the fabrication" he explained. "It was truly a component building that was shipped from America, Japan, the UK, and assembled on site."
Since the building's elements were manufactured in different countries around the world, the project also had Foster travelling internationally as a result, which set a precedent for the future of the practice.
"It was not just inventing a particular kind of tower that hadn't been done before," said Foster. "But it was also starting to reinforce and redesign [the practice] as a design organisation."
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Thank you for posting! I was there every day during its construction up to completion (my office was right besides it). Such a magnificent and brilliant building that up to now after 30 years, it still stands out. Congrats to HSBC for money well spent and for trusting Sir Norman for his masterpiece .
The rendering/illustration at 3:02 was authored by Helmut Jacoby. Just to give the missing credit.
If you are a fan of Lord Norman Foster,
Then, please consider Lord John Browne's (former CEO of BP Energy) book, "Make Think Imagine - Engineering for the Future of Civilization" to read. Mr Foster is extensively quoted in the book.
Grande Norman Foster..!!
That's a nice building. It's way more artistic than those boring world trade centers. Probably lots of nice buildings all over Asia from this english artistic architect. Those chinese have really benefited from all the fostering of these english gentlemen. They must have really good financing too. Are they lit up too like Shanghai? That's beautiful work there, like disney world and fantasia combined. That gerkin building in london is sweet. Sweet gerkins, you know in america that's a type of pickle, like a really small pickle. It reminds me of some type of plug, guitar plug? No, ear plug? No, anyway. That's a nice one. Have you heard that song from that music group Foster the People? Something about must of lost your wits.
That was a foster song. Well good work here and there and everywhere to be done around the world.
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It resembles Lloyd's of London. But then what do I know.
Same engineers.
They were all good at designing buidlings inclduing many others
Always thought it was a richard Rogers design, and will not change
Well, it does look a lot like Rogers design. I agree.
Foster and Rogers were partners in their youth.
Before 1997, everything seems wonderful in Hong Kong.
More like 2010
Thermocoal and thermokind-F
2 rail guns on rooftop
One of the ugliest building on planet earth! Well done Foster.
@johnnyXx4321 The modern way is to insult those you don't agree with... Shows a lack of compassion and intelligence... Perhaps you are My Angry.
Ooof
Are you blind?
Oh, let me guess. Colonial classical would be your preference?
I think it's one of the most pleasing looking buildings I have ever seen.
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