techPlate 079 · Hong Kong, China

HSBC Building

An office hung from masts, so a bank would have no columns and a lot of nerve.

1985 · Foster + Partners · Asia

The chamber score

High Mountains Flowing Water

Guqin, Bo Ya · ancient

The friendship piece. A wall, a river, one line.

An original chamber arrangement in the climate of the work. The recording is not a copy. It is the room answering.

Why it is here

Foster's high-tech headquarters, a monument of structural exhibitionism.

Commission the full chamber

This monument is in the atlas. The rebuild can be written for you.

Ask the studio to reconstruct HSBC Building through tech — or shift it into another corridor.

Open a commission

Shift the feeling

What if HSBC Building was rebuilt as something else?

Ask the architect

One question. Stay in the room.