Either the name of the building OR the city and type of building, such as "Seattle Library," is acceptable. On Sundays, hundreds of Filipina maids picnic in the open-air plaza beneath this building. T
Either the name of the building OR the city and type of building, such as "Seattle Library," is acceptable. On Sundays, hundreds of Filipina maids picnic in the open-air plaza beneath this building. This building's modules, which were fabricated by Scott Lithgow Shipbuilders in Scotland, feature "coathanger" trusses that suspend groups of floors the architect called "social villages." Natural light is directed into this building's atrium by computer-controlled "sun scoops" that track and reflect the sun. Next to the helicopter pad on this building's roof are two cannon-shaped cranes allegedly aimed at the bad feng shui of a nearby I.Â M. Pei building. A pair of bronze (*) lions at the main entry, which visitors touch for good luck, are one of the only traditional elements of the design of this standard example of High-tech Modernism, whose exterior displays its steel skeleton. For 10 points, Norman Foster designed what headquarters of a financial institution in a territory of China?
Either the name of the building OR the city and type of building, such as "Seattle Library," is acceptable.
Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank [or HSBC Main Building]