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.
诺曼•福斯特勋爵(Lord Norman Foster)以冷静的技术派见称。这位现代派建筑大师设计了汇丰(HSBC)的香港总部和瑞士再保险(Swiss Re)的“小黄瓜”大厦。他喜欢用玻璃和钢，内饰常常为白色。个人简介中常常会提到他的“圆头”，称他如谜一般不可测知。作为去年《星期日泰晤士报》年度富豪榜(Sunday Times Rich List)中唯一的建筑师，他以积极进取著称，在一个极易受到衰退影响、破产事件俯拾皆是的行业里打造出了一台罕见的企业机器。
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