Foster plans new Beijing HQ as base for China expansion

摘要

Foster & Partners is designing its own headquarters building in China as the firm looks to expand the amount of business it carries out in the country. Chairman Norman Foster told BD the new building in the Caochangdi area of Beijing would go up next to the Three Shadows Photography Art Centre -designed by dissident architect Ai Weiwei four years ago - and would be submitted for planning later this year. Foster said: "It will in part be public in the sense that it will have galleries, it will have a cafe. It will host exhibitions by young artists and architects in China. It will have an apartment for an artist in residence.