When Huawei’s new handset manufacturing complex opens in 2016 at Songshan Lake in southern China, it will include a building modelled on Krakow’s Wawel Castle. The former Polish royal residence was preferred over proposals based on other European beauty spots including the palace of Versailles, Granada’s Alhambra and Windermere in the English Lake District. That a fast-growing telecoms group should draw inspiration for the next phase of its assault on the 21st-century global phone market from a 16th-century castle is not as strange as it sounds.
華為新的手持設備製造中心將於2016年在東莞松山湖科技園落成。其中一座建築將參考波蘭克拉科夫的瓦維爾城堡(Wawel Castle)。設計者也曾考慮參考歐洲的其他名勝，比如凡爾賽宮(Palace of Versailles)、格拉納達的阿爾汗布拉宮(Alhambra Palace)或英國湖區(Lake Disrict)的溫德米爾(Windermere)，但最終還是選擇參考那座曾經的波蘭王宮。作爲一家快速成長的電信集團，華為居然要從一座16世紀的城堡那裏尋找靈感、以求找到向21世紀全球手機市場發動下一輪進攻的最佳方式，這聽上去或許有些不可思議，其實不然。