Roland Paoletti

The name Romano came from a church local to Lucca, Italy, where his father's family are thought to have lived for at least 700 years.

[1] Paoletti later moved to Hong Kong, working at Palmer and Turner before becoming an architect at the rapidly expanding Mass Transit Railway (MTR) in 1975.

Over a period of twelve years, Paoletti led a team that designed 37 stations on the Tsuen Wan, Kwun Tong and Island lines across Hong Kong completing the initial phase of the MTR.

[4][5] According to MTR's chief architect Andrew Mead, the colours were often chosen based on the Cantonese names of the station – such as Choi Hung (Rainbow) and Lam Tin (blue).

Paoletti hired different architects to design each station, while maintaining that all should share an "underlying philosophy and essential elements."

The Royal Fine Art Commission named the extension as a whole their Millennium Building of the Year, with the chair of the judging panel calling it "comparable to the achievement of Haussmann when he constructed the great boulevards of Paris".