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1990 · Central and Western District, Central and Western District, People's Republic of China

Bank of China Tower (Hong Kong) image

Supertall skyscraper in Central, Hong Kong

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Bank of China Tower (Hong Kong)

Central and Western District, Central and Western District, People's Republic of China · Exact work coordinates

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Supertall skyscraper in Central, Hong Kong

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Comparison

Field	Bank of China Tower (Hong Kong) 1990 · Central and Western District, Central and Western District, People's Republic of China	Adjaye Associates 2000 · London, England, United Kingdom
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1990	2000
Place	Central and Western District, Central and Western District, People's Republic of China	London, England, United Kingdom
Place context	Central and Western District, Central and Western District, People's Republic of China	Representative site: Manhattan, Manhattan, United States
Climate	27°C · 12.8h daylight · 9 km/h wind	4°C · 13.5h daylight · 5 km/h wind · via Studio Museum in Harlem
Focus	House	9 works in corpus
Architects	I. M. Pei	David Adjaye
Linked context	Bureaus I. M. Pei & Partners	Notable works Studio Museum in Harlem Nobel Peace Center Rivington Place Sunken House
Typologies	house tower landscape	museum civic building building house campus building memorial pavilion housing
Materials	glass	stone
Carbon signals	Glass look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Glass	Stone look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Stone
Lower-carbon levers	Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.	Check source geography, fabrication intensity, and whether stone is structural, cladding, or finish-only.
Accessibility	Publicly accessible	4 of 4 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.