HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI BANK, Hong Kong.


Designed by architect Sir Norman Foster, this building is considered a 
masterpiece of high-tech architectural engineering.  Its most prominent 
features are "clothes-hanger" like structural memebers, which are expressed
on the facade.  The floors of the building are actually hung from these 
truss members, much like in a bridge.  The building design also follows the 
principles of the ancient Chinese geomancy system known as "feng shui," 
thus giving the bank good fortune (and, hopefully, good profits).  In order 
to fill in the rest of the tilebase, trees were added to the graphic (the 
actual building is really tightly flanked by older bank structures).

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Created by Lee Sojot.
