Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation

Japanese: 香港上海銀行 - ほんこんしゃんはいぎんこう
Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation
This bank opened in Hong Kong in 1986. Built with an investment of HK$5 billion and utilizing the world's most advanced technology, the building attracted the attention of architects around the world. N. Foster's design challenges new technologies in every aspect, including structure, form, materials, and construction methods, while at the same time capturing the cultural creativity that architecture brings. The abundant interior space provided by the suspended structure has raised the quality of the work to a first-class level by highly developing the exposure of mechanisms and their abstraction, such as by attempting to symbolically express the elusive functions of architecture. This bank, which has impressed upon the public its status as a leading global financial institution, has also been influenced by Feng Shui, a traditional Chinese form of geomantic divination, to ensure its prosperity in the 21st century and beyond, amid the uneasy social background of Hong Kong's return to China in 1997.

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Japanese:
1986年に香港にオープンした銀行。世界最先端の技術を駆使し,50億香港ドルを投じて建てられたビルは,世界中の建築家の注目を集めた。 N.フォスターの設計は構造,形態,材料,工法などあらゆる面で新しい技術に挑戦しながら,同時に建築がもたらす文化的創造力をも獲得している。吊構造が提供した豊かな内部空間は,つかみどころのなくなった建築の機能を象徴的に表現しようとしていることなど,メカニズムの露出とその抽象化を高度に発展させることによって,作品の質を第1級のものへと高めた。世界の指導的金融機関としての地位の確立を印象づけたこの銀行もまた,97年の中国への香港返還という不安な社会的背景の中で,21世紀以降の繁栄を確かめるように中国の伝統的な地相占いである風水の影響を受けている。

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