1950 1960

1951 1956 1961

BIOGRAPHY 1 June 1935 Fueled his Passed entrance Won a place at the Unv. of Graduated and met Vincent Scully
Born in Reddish, interest in test Manchester Manchester School of Encouraged Foster and Rogers to
Stockford, UK design Town Hall Architecture and City Planning travel US for a year

Focused on High- Inspired by Oscar Niemeyer, L.

IDEA Developing tech Industrial Mies Van der Rohe, Les Corbusier,
environmentally sensitive buildings and Frank Lloyd Wright
approach to design
PROJECTS
International Style Structuralism
1939 - 1945 Bauhaus-like (design is a process of searching
CONTEXT World War II architecture in US relationship between elements)
Capitalism

1970 1980

1963 1967 1968-1983 1975 1978 1983

Set-up an Founded Foster Met and Breakthrough Built one of the Gold Medal for
architectural Associates collaborated with first major Architecture
practice as Team 4 Richard Fuller public buildings
Designs reflected a
1968
sophisticated, machine-
Foster’s turning
Willis Faber and Sainsbury Centre 1982 influenced high-tech vision 1986
point in designing
Dumas HQ, UK for Visual Arts Renault Centre, HSBC HQ,HongKong
Swindon, UK
Richard Fuller’s work

workers and managers are not

separated any more, restoration of Brutalism and High-tech Deconstructivism
e4 senses of community in workplace
 1990 2000

1991 1994 1999 2004

Gold Medal of The Gold Medal of The Won Pritzker Prize Tallest bridge
French Academy or French Academy or in the world
Architecture Architecture

1994 1998 Hong Kong International 1999 Reichstag’ restoration in Millau Viaduct, Millau,
Joslyn Art Museum Airport Berlin, Germany Southern France

Parametricism

2010

2007 2009 Board of

Worked with Philippe Starck Prince Asturias Trustees
and Sir Richard Branson of Award
the Virgin Group Took interest in
Style evolved into designing sustainable
a more sharp- buildings 2017
edged modernity Apple Park
Beijing Capital 2013 Lenbachhaus Museum Cupertino, CA
Supreme Court Building 2007
International Airport 2007 Wembley Stadium, 2011 Munich, Germany
2005 London The Bow, Calgary,
Singapore
Alberta, Canada

Awareness of global warming and

eco-friendly products rose
 PURPOSE
To honor a living architect or architects whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities
of talent, vision, and commitment, which has produced consistent and significant contributions to
P humanity and the built environment through the art of architecture.
R The international prize, which is awarded each year to a living architect/s for significant achievement,

I was established by the Pritzker family of Chicago through their Hyatt Foundation in 1979. It is granted
annually and is often referred to as “architecture’s Nobel” and “the profession’s highest honor.”
T The award consists of $100,000 (US) and a bronze medallion. The award is conferred on the laureate/s at
Z a ceremony held at an architecturally significant site throughout the world.

K N
E O
R Pritzker Architecture Prize begins its third decade of honoring great architecture throughout
R
the world, Thomas J. Pritzker, president of The Hyatt Foundation, spoke of the jury's choice,
M
saying, "The jury has chosen an architect who cares passionately about the future of this
P A
planet, an avowed optimist with a firm belief in technological progress, but who also believes N
R that architecture is about people and the quality of life. He makes buildings that will not only F
I last, but will work for the people that use them, and in the process provide an uplifting O
Z experience." S
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Manchester, 1935
Manchester University School of
Architecture and City Planning - 1961
Yale University for a year to visit Mies Van der Rohe, Les corbusier,
Founder & chairman Foster Associates -
1967
400 Awards
21st Pritzker Prize - 1999
BIOGRAPHY
Norman Foster was born on 1st June 1935. His
father led him to the world of design and
engineering in his early days. He then went to a
university in 1950s, and met his mentors Paul
Rudolp, Serge Chermayeff, Vincent Scully, and
James Sterling, Who had led young Foster to
believe in technology and modernism in
architecture. After he graduated, he traveled US
Oscar Niemeyer, L., and Frank Lloyd Wright’s
works. In 1960s, Foster founded Foster Associates
and then met and collaborated with Richard Fuller
until 1983. By the time, he had already been a
renown architect, famous for his sophisticated,
machine-influenced high-tech buildings. He won
Pritzker Prize in 1999 and his design evolved into a
more sharp-edged modernity.
He believes in principle of modern architecture,
which style and fashion are secondary to the
function and utility of building, he also adapts
technology to fulfill the human need, architecture
is about the relation of human and the quality of
life it creates, and he believes quality above
quantity.
 HSBC Headquarter 香港滙豐總行大廈
Structural Expressionism
1 Queen’s Road, Central, Hong Kong
1978 - 1985
178.8 m
44 floor
99,000 m2

2) HSBC Building HongKong inteior

1) HSBC Building Hong Kong

3) HSBC Building Hong Kong maps
Concept & Sketch

Adapting 3 of Le Corbusier’s five points of

Building Analysis
Architecture: pilotis, free plan, free façade.

6) Le Corbusier’s famous domino

house. Mass module fabrication
5) Illustration. (design anatomy) for modern housing.

Foster and partners wanted to make a large, open, and free space building. To
support his idea, Foster made HSBC Tower Hong Kong with building’s technology
(Space-truss). He made a hanging structure to support the idea of ’open’ building
because the 1st floor used to be a sidewalk (public space) and he’s using mirrors to
maximixe the use of natural light.

4) Norman Foster’s concept sketch

NORMAN FOSTER
HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION
Andreas H. Anggreny R.
 Building Analysis
7) Floor plans

8) Elevation
9) Section

NORMAN FOSTER
HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION
Andreas H. Anggreny R.
 From the outset, the Bank placed a high priority on
flexibility. Consequently, over the years, it has been able
to reconfigure office layouts with ease, even
incorporating a large dealers room into one floor, an
arrangement that was not thought possible when the

Building Analysis
building was designed.

10) Perspective section of HSBC

Building Hong Kong

12) Floor plan. To show that the floor

is free plan floor

NORMAN FOSTER
11) The interior of HSBC Building HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION
Hong Kong Andreas H. Anggreny R.
HSBC Tower used pinned

Building Analysis
connection – trusses as a join. Then
it makes a rigid connection
between floor slab, masts, and
cross braces

13) Close up image of space truss. 14) HSBC Building space truss joint 15) Close up of joints.

NORMAN FOSTER
HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION
Andreas H. Anggreny R.
 Structural System

Building Analysis
Foster used an exoskeleton
steel truss structure with 8
masts, each consist of 4
columns, supporting 5
discrete two story height
steel suspension structure.

16) Illustration of parts and how they

are assembled.

19) Exploded axonometry of HSBC

Building Hong Kong.

17) Illustration how the space trusses NORMAN FOSTER

look like men holding some loads. 18) Structures and assembly. HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION
Andreas H. Anggreny R.
 5) Illustration. (design anatomy) 13) Close up image of 12) Floor plan. To show that the
space truss. floor is free plan floor

Principle of modernism, The use of High Free plan free façade

such as pilotis Technology in building building

Conclusion
HSBC Headquarter building represented some of Norman Foster’s beliefs such as the use of
technology, modern architecture, architecture is about the human and quality of life and a building
that will not only last, but will work for the people that use them
 REFERENCES

Websites
Www.PritzkerPrize.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Foster,_Baron_Foster_of_Thames_Bank
http://faculty.arch.tamu.edu/media/cms_page_media/4433/HSBC.pdf

Books
Norman Foster Works 4
Norman Foster 1999 LaureateBiography
Architectural Monographs No 20 FOSTER ASSOCIATES Recent Works
Foster Catalogue 2001