Archive for Norman Foster

Pilgrimage – Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank

I never realised the Bank of China and HSBC Bank was this close together. I wish I could go up to HSBC’s lobby but the security guards don’t seem to look too kindly on me.

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I’ve always wondered if it would look better if it was a lot higher. It demonstrates how celebrating structure in an almost techno-phile way never really caught on as a brilliant move in 20th century architectural history, and still hasn’t.


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