A structured response
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ARCH : the Asian magazine of architecture, design and visual communications, no.6, 1990, pp. 90-94
Abstract
For Hong Kong residents the work of Norman Foster, or more correctly, Foster Associates, has become an integral part of the cityscape. The austere and curiously appealing lines of the HongKong Bank headquarters appear to have been indelibly etched against the Central skyline. Dashing through the cool gray cavern underneath, photographing the grandchildren on the lions outside, every level of the population seems to have assimilated what was once regarded with horror, and even outrage, as a stranger, rather alien intruder upon the cosy jumble of the harbourside development. It is a measure of a very startling visionary capacity: to be able to be of the now and the yet to be; to test the boundaries of human imagination and human need - and still related all that is personal and timely to all that is infinite and timeless. So Foster Associates did with the HongKong Bank, with the Visual Arts Centre at the University of East Anglia, are so doing with London's third airport at Stansted, are so doing in a handful of vital commissions. And so they have done, and will continue to do, with Nomos.
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1990
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en