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Site
0.8 hectares, in Hong Kong's central business district
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Hong KongGross Floor Area
130,000m 2 Client
Bank of China /
Hong Kong Time Frame
Planning: 12/82–
Construction: 4/85–
Completion: 3/90 |
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| |  | Bank of China Tower |
| Hong Kong
Completed 1989 |
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Regional bank headquarters with tenant offices and water gardens
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| Click on image to enlarge On a difficult inland site, the client requested a distinctive regional headquarters with an imposing banking hall and 130,000m2
of office space, 40% for BOC's operations and the remainder for tenant leasing. The challenge was to execute the necessarily tall building in a typhoon zone within a firm budget of HK$1 billion (US$130 million). The solution, integrating architecture and engineering inseparably, involves an asymmetrical tower that addresses both skyline and street. Comprised of four vertical shafts, the incremental tower emerges from a 52-meter cube and
diminishes its mass, quadrant by quadrant, until a single triangular prism remains. The faceted prism is clad in reflective glass that mirrors the changing sky, anchoring the expanding business district and providing a distinctive vertical axis to Hong Kong's towering skyline. The whole is supported by an innovative composite structural system that not only resists high-velocity winds, but does so with significant savings of construction time and materials.At ground level, the
tower is pulled back from the street to create a welcoming pedestrian environment that is fully accessible yet secluded from urban congestion. It is surrounded by a broad promenade, and flanked by cooling water gardens that muffle the activity and noise of surrounding traffic. |
| 55,700m2 offices on 51 floors; 1,580m2 banking hall; 17-story bank atrium; 1,700m2 executive dining / 17th fl. lounge; 1,280m2 employee cafeteria (19th fl.); 420m2 executive dining / 68th fl.; 460m2 VIP apartment suites; 600m2 penthouse lounge; commissioned art (Ming Ju bronze); 1,300m2
gardens; 370-car underground garage |
| 1992 |
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| Internazionale Marmi e Machine Carrara, S. P. A.: Marble Architectural Award, East Asia |
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| R. S. Reynolds Memorial Award |
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l'Association des Ingénieurs,
Conseils du Canada: Prix d'Excellence |
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| New York Association of Consulting Engineers: Award for Engineering Excellence |
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| American Consulting Engineering Council:
Grand Award |
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| Structural Engineers Association of Illinois:
Best Structure Award |
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Pei Cobb Freed & Partners services |
| Architectural Design; Construction Documents; coordination with associate architect on construction administration |
| Kung & Lee Associate Architects, Hong Kong |
| Leslie E. Robertson Associates, New York, NY, and
Valentine, Laurie, and Davies, Hong Kong |
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Jaros, Baum and Bolles, New York, NY and
Associated Consulting Engineers, Hong Kong |
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