Quotes
“Foster and his team were working on the other side of the world, in another culture with a simultaneously cosmopolitan and native face. In the end, the building was not the creation of electronic international banking, nor a semi-colonial gift from an old power to a younger one; its design grew, more than anything else from an unprecedented act of learning.”Martin Pawley, 1986
“Legend has it that Foster received only one directive from the bank director Roy Munden when he won the architectural competition for the job in 1979 - 'build me the best bank in the world'.