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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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Hero image

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	Álvaro Siza 1954 · Porto, Porto District, Portugal
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1990	1954
Place	Central and Western District, Central and Western District, People's Republic of China	Porto, Porto District, Portugal
Place context	Central and Western District, Central and Western District, People's Republic of China	Representative site: Matosinhos e Leça da Palmeira, Matosinhos e Leça da Palmeira, Portugal
Climate	25°C · 12.8h daylight · 3 km/h wind	12°C · 13.5h daylight · 3 km/h wind · via Tidal pools of Leça de Palmeira
Focus	House	4 works in corpus
Architects	I. M. Pei	Álvaro Siza Vieira
Linked context	Bureaus I. M. Pei & Partners	Notable works Tidal pools of Leça de Palmeira Pavilhão de Portugal Atelier-Museu Júlio Pomar Casa de Chá da Boa Nova
Typologies	house tower landscape	building museum house
Materials	glass	Not recorded yet.
Carbon signals	Glass look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Glass	building, museum, and house gives us a typology starting point even though the work does not have a recorded material palette yet. No dominant drivers yet.
Lower-carbon levers	Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.	No levers surfaced yet.
Accessibility	Publicly accessible	1 of 1 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.