Lord Norman Foster is reputed to be a cold technocrat. The modernist architect behind HSBC’s Hong Kong building and Swiss Re’s “Gherkin” uses glass and steel, his interiors are often white. Profiles refer to his “bullet head” and portray him as inscrutable. The only architect in last year’s Sunday Times Rich List, he is renowned for being fiercely driven, having created a corporate machine unusual in an industry so vulnerable to recession and strewn with bankruptcies.
諾曼?福斯特勛爵(Lord Norman Foster)以冷靜的技術派見稱。這位現代派建筑大師設計了匯豐(HSBC)的香港總部和瑞士再保險(Swiss Re)的“小黃瓜”大廈。他喜歡用玻璃和鋼,內飾常常為白色。個人簡介中常常會提到他的“圓頭”,稱他如謎一般不可測知。作為去年《星期日泰晤士報》年度富豪榜(Sunday Times Rich List)中唯一的建筑師,他以積極進取著稱,在一個極易受到衰退影響、破產事件俯拾皆是的行業里打造出了一臺罕見的企業機器。