Atrium of the HSBC Headquarters, Hong Kong, designed by Norman Foster in 1979 : architecture

This constructing is definitely actually cool. It might not seem like it, however they stored the rules of Feng Shui in thoughts throughout design. This can be attributable to a legend surrounding the constructing I.M. Pei designed for the rival Financial institution of China, they didn’t adhere to those rules and it was stated to be responsible for dangerous issues taking place across the metropolis. So in Foster’s HSBC constructing, they’ve issues like an enormous mirror array on the skin of the constructing that funnels daylight into the reflectors of the atrium ceiling and the escalators are very explicitly not parallel to one another. Additionally they used accomplished drop-in modules for issues like restrooms so as to construct it quicker.