The Center Skyscraper, Hong Kong Tower, Architect, Building, Photo, Height, Design, Date

The Center Hong Kong - DLN Architects

20th Century Skyscraper Architecture - Tower Development

The Center Central / Sheung Wan, Hong Kong 1998 Design: DLN Architects & Engineers photos © Adrian Welch Views looking up The Center skyscraper 346m high The Center is 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

Hong Kong Architecture Walking Tours

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.

Hong Kong Architecture - Selection

Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre - HKCEC, Wanchai
Marshall Strabala of Skidmore Owings Merrill LLP

image : SOM
Hong Kong Convention Centre

International Finance Centre, Central
Cesar Pelli & Associates Architects, Rocco Design, Hirsch Bedner Associates

photo © Andrew McRae
Forerunner to the higher IFC 2 skyscraper

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