Foster + Partners x Eckelt

From Hong Kong to Frankfurt to London – Foster + Partners and Eckelt have been combining technical brilliance with visionary design for four decades.

Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank Headquarters – 1986 • ITN Building – 1988 • Royal Academy of Art – 1990 • Stansted Airport – 1991 • HACTL Superterminal Hong Kong – 1992 • Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge – 1995 • Stockley Park – Sackler Galleries – 1995 • Commerzbank Frankfurt – 1997 • New Airport Hong Kong – 1998 • Ground Transport Center Hong Kong – 1998 • Bundestag | Alter Reichstag Berlin – 1999 • Canary Wharf | Underground Station – 1999 • Millennium Bridge – 1999 • National Botanic Garden | Great Glasshouse – 1999 • Albion Riverside, London – 2003 • GLA | city hall – 2003 • 10 Gresham Street – 2003 • Centrica Edinburgh – 2003 • HSBC Canary Wharf – 2003 • 30 St. Mary Axe | The Gherkin – 2004 • McLaren Technology Center, Woking – 2004 • Glasshouse International Centre for Music, Gateshead – 2004 • Bishops Square | Brushfield street – 2004 • 51 Lime Street | Willis Towers Watson – 2008 • 425 Park Avenue, New York (Entrance) – 2012 • to be continued

pioneering spirit in Asia | Our cooperation began 1986 with the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank Headquarters – the building that was designed as the ‘best bank building in the world’ and almost reinvented the office tower. By integrating a feng shui geomancer and radical technical solutions, a milestone in modern architecture was created here.

ecology meets innovation in Frankfurt | With the Commerzbank Tower, we realised Europe’s first ecological skyscraper in 1997. With 53 storeys, it not only offers natural lighting and individual ventilation through windows, but also set new height standards at the time with a height of 259 metres.

lightweight construction wonder | The Millennium Bridge, London’s first new pedestrian bridge for over a hundred years, impresses with its extremely flat steel structure spanning 320 metres. After the legendary ‘wobble’ phenomenon at its opening, it was stabilised with dampers – and is now regarded as a technical masterpiece.

the icon in the city sky | In 2004 the 30 St Mary Axe (‘The Gherkin’) set standards as London’s first ecological skyscraper. The diamond-shaped diagrid façade maximises daylight and natural ventilation – a statement for sustainable building and a symbol of our collective innovative strength.