HONG KONG FAMOUS ARCHITECTS

Norman Foster and I.M. Pei have proven to be a couple of renowned Hong Kong architects.

Norman Foster was born in Manchester in 1935 and studied Architecture as well as City Planning in Manchester University. Many years later, he earned a Henry Fellowship to Yale University, where he obtained a Master’s Diploma in Architecture.

Over the past forty years he has been responsible for urban master plans, public infrastructure, airports, civic and cultural structures, office buildings and private residences. He has been given nearly five hundred awards and more than 86 national and worldwide competitions.

Amongst his present work, we can include things like the largest single building on the planet, Beijing Airport, the redevelopment of Dresden Railway Station, Millau Viaduct in France, an entire University Campus for Petronas in Malaysia and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

He’s completed the HSBC Main Building in addition to Hong Kong International Airport, both in Hong Kong.

Ieoh Ming Pei was born in Guangzhou, China in 1917 and passed away in Luxembourg in 2006. He’s often called a master associated with contemporary architecture. He studied architecture in the University of Pennsylvania and then he became a member of the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

His very first major acknowledgment came with the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, US. He furthermore developed the Dallas City Hall.

In Hong Kong, he developed the skyscraper for the Bank of China

Pei has received an extensive selection of prizes and awards in the field of architecture, including the AIA Gold Medal in 1979, the first Praemium Imperiale for Architecture in 1989, and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in 2003.