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Hong Kong Architecture, Building, Skyscrapers, Photos, Asia, Architects,
Pictures, Designs
Hong Kong Buildings : Architecture Information
+ Images
Contemporary Property Developments in the Far East
Hong Kong is a major world business city, a trading post between the Orient
and the Occident, the east and the west. The city is famous for the grouping
of skyscrapers seen in the photo above.
Famous architects with buildings in the city include Foster + Partners,
Cesar Pelli, Terry Farrell and I M Pei. The tallest building currently is
2 IFC. Famous Hong Kong architecture includes the Bank of China and the
Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank.

Architecture Photos © Adrian Welch unless otherwise stated
Hong Kong Developments : alphabetical
list of all major projects
Hong Kong Architects
- with buildings featured in this guide
Hong Kong Architecture Photos
: Photographs with captions only
Ten Key Hong Kong Buildings, chronological:
1. Happy Valley Racecourse Buildings, nr Wanchai
Architects: Leigh & Orange Ltd

World-famous multistorey stadium : Hong
Kong Racecourse building
2. Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank - HSBC Building
Foster & Partners, Architects

Hong Kong & Shanghai
Bank : at 179m high the HSBC Bank seems tiny now relative to recent
Hong Kong skyscrapers, world-famous for its structural expression
3. Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre - HKCEC, Wanchai
Marshall Strabala, architect, of Skidmore Owings Merrill LLP

image : SOM
Hong Kong Convention
Centre
4. Bank of China - Tower, Central
I.M. Pei & Partners, Sherman Kung & Associates Architects
Ltd

Bank of China Tower
: 367m high skyscraper, strong diagonal motif design
5. The Peak - Peak Tower, Victoria Peak
Terry Farrell, Architects

The Peak Hong Kong
is reached by a funicular ride through upper HK
6. One International Finance Centre, Central
Cesar Pelli & Associates Architects, Rocco Design, Hirsch Bedner
Associates

Forerunner to the higher IFC
2 skyscraper (behind, left) also by architect Cesar Pelli
7. Chep Lap Kok Airport, Lantau Island
Foster & Partners, Architects

photo : Dennis Gilbert/VIEW
Hong Kong International Airport is reputedly the world's largest :
Hong Kong Airport
8. The Center, Central / Sheung Wan
DLN Architects & Engineers

The Center Hong
Kong skyscraper glows in different colours at night
9. Cosco Tower, Central / Sheung Wan
Hsin Yieh Architects & Associates Ltd

view from this Hong Kong skyscraper
Cosco Tower
10. Two International Finance Centre - 2 IFC Hong Kong, Central
Cesar Pelli & Associates Architects, Rocco Design Ltd

IFC2 skyscraper was the tallest tower in HK [415m high]: harbour views
looking to hong kong with pencil of 2 IFC on right. The International
Commerce Centre skyscraper [484m high] will overtake it, under construction.
Hong Kong Buildings - Photo Selection



Other buildings in this Guide to Hong Kong
Architecture, alphabetical:
Central Plaza, north Wan Chai
DLN Architects & Engineers
Tallest building in HK [374m high] until completion of Two International
Finance Center - 2 IFC - in 2003. Tallest building in Asia 1992-96
: Central Plaza
Cheung Kong Centre Building, Queens Rd. Central
Hsin Yieh Architects; Cesar Pelli & Associates Architects,
Leo Daly, Architect

Cheung Kong Centre in centre; Bank of China tower
to left
Cheung Kong Centre
: simplest (some might say dullest) Hong Kong skyscraper
The Hong Kong Community College Building (Hung Hom Bay Campus),
Kowloon
AD+RG Architects

picture from the architect
Hong Kong Community
College
Hopewell Centre, Queen's Road East, Wan Chai / Central
WMKY Ltd, Architects
Hopewell Center Building
: tallest Hong Kong skyscraper from 1980-89
Human Genome Research Institute Building
Llewelyn Davies Yeang, with T. R. Hamzah & Yeang
Hong Kong Research
Centre
Innovation Tower, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University - PolyU
Zaha Hadid Architects

image : Zaha Hadid Architects
Hong Kong University
Building
International Commerce Centre, West Kowloon
Architects: Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates with Wong & Ouyang
International
Commerce Centre
Jardine House, Central
P & T Architects & Engineers Ltd

Jardine House : tallest
building in HK [179m high] from 1972-80
Lippo Center, Wan Chai
Paul Rudolph, Wong & Ouyang

Lippo Center
West Kowloon Development, Kowloon
Foster + Partners Architects

image : Foster + Partners
West Kowloon Cultural
Complex
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Useful Links re Hong Kong Buildings
Hong Kong Building News
Hong Kong Building
Photos : Photographs from 2010
Hong Kong Architecture
- Guide to the Culture
HK - General Photos in the
city

Famous Hong Kong building - Hong
Kong & Shanghai Bank
Chep Lap Kok Airport + HSBC Bank building are both by Foster
+ Partners
The availability of broadband internet
connection in over 95% of business establishments and the splended architecture
of its buildings are some of the reasons why trade and commerce continue
to flourish in the rich city of Hong Kong. In addition, Hong Kong is renowed
for its assymmetrical business structures and towering skyscrapers among
others.

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