Foster's HSBC building in Hong Kong is a revolutionary high-tech skyscraper

The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Headquarters was a ground-breaking skyscraper and established Norman Foster as a global brand. We take a look at the high-rise bank as part of our high-tech architecture series.
Designed with the simple brief of creating "the best bank headquarters in the world", the forty-four-storey skyscraper for HSBC set Foster's studio on the path to being one of the largest practices in the world.
Foster won the commission to design the Hongkong and Shangh