Guide to Hong Kong Buildings / Architects

The Center
The Center, Central / Sheung Wan, Hong Kong
1998
DLN Architects & Engineers

Views looking up The Center skyscraper

346m high
located in centre of Hong Kong business district, rather tacky reflective glass tower based on square plan with smaller 45 degree rotated square within and expressed. The Center glows in different colours at night with a sequence of neon horizontal strips getting progressively closer to each other up the building.


Gardens at base of The Center tower, to west


Other Key Hong Kong skyscraper buildings:

Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank - HSBC Building
The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Ltd, 1 Queen's Road, Central
Hong Kong
Foster & Partners
1979-85

hsbc bank by foster & partners, left; in the middle is the Cheung Kong Centre

At 179m high the HSBC Bank seems tiny now elative to recent Hong Kong skyscrapers but at the time became world -famous for its strong concept and clean expression of technology and structure.
Norman Foster combines some ideas from Lloyds building in London with local requirements to creat a simple but striking tower. The space underneath is amazing, a public space the size of a cathedral nave in the heart of the city: visit on a Sunday for the throb of Filipino's gathered below: Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank

Foster & Partners

4. Bank of China - Tower
Bank of China, 1 Garden Rd, Central, Hong Kong
1985-90
I.M. Pei & Partners, Sherman Kung & Associates Architects Ltd

high towers cluster, bank of china on left
367m high skyscraper, clean styling with strong diagonal motif and double spikes
at top. Apparently bad feng shui according to Hong Kong architects that I spoke
to. Tallest building in Hong Kong and Asia from 1989 to 1992, until the completion
of Central Plaza, 374m high: Bank of China Building.

Hong Kong Architecture - Photos with captions only

Ten Key Hong Kong Buildings (chronological):

1. Happy Valley Racecourse
from 1846
Architects n/a

2. Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank - HSBC Building
1979-85
Foster & Partners

3. Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre - HKCEC
1988
Architects n/a

4. Bank of China
1985-90
I M Pei & Partners; Sherman Kung & Associates Architects Ltd

5. The Peak
1991-95
Terry Farrell, Architects

6. One International Finance Centre
1998
Cesar Pelli & Associates Architects; Rocco Design Limited; Hirsch Bedner
Associates

7. Chep Lap Kok Airport
1998
Foster & Partners, Architects

8. The Center
1998
DLN Architects & Engineers

9. Cosco Tower
1998
Hsin Yieh Architects & Associates Ltd

10. Two International Finance Centre - 2 IFC Hong Kong
2003
Rocco Design Limited, Cesar Pelli & Associates Architects



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