The Center Hong Kong - DLN Architects

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