Bank of China, Hong Kong, China, 1985-90. Exterior detail. Architect: Pei, Cobb and Freed Architects
2a Des Voeux Road Central, 1 Garden Road in the Central district of Hong Kong. Height 367 m or 1,205 ft . Length (maximum) 52 m or 170 ft . Width (maximum) 52 m or 170 ft . 72 floors above ground and 4 floors underground. The building has 45 lifts or elevators and 370 parking spaces. The Bank of China was the tallest building in Hong Kong and Asia from 1989 to 1992. The northwest side of Hong Kong can be viewed from a small skydeck on the 42nd floor that is open to the public. The design is said to be based on a bamboo cane, divided into sections as the cane grows higher. Four traingular glass and aluminium towers rise from a granite podium. The silver reflective glass is glazed in a low maintenance dry gasket system, and the curtain wall is a unitized design assembled off-site under factory conditions. This enabled close quality control of all aspects of the frame assembly, which numbers over 10,000 pieces in total- The megastructural steelwork is expressed externally by naturally anodized panels that form part of the curtainwall.
Size: 2902px × 3682px
Location: China
Photo credit: © Ian Lambot / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: 1980, 1980s, 1985-90, 20th, 20thc, abstract, architects, architecture, asian, backgrounds, bank, banks, buidings, building, buildings, business, c029, century, china, cities, cobb, commercial, corporate, details, economic, economy, exterior, exteriors, finance, financial, freed, geometric, geometry, glass, high-rise, hong, kong, modern, money, offices, order, pattern, pei, rhythm, skyscrapers, structure, tall, travel, triangles, triangular
