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1985 · Hong Kong, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China

HSBC Building (Hong Kong) image

Headquarters building of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation

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HSBC Building (Hong Kong)

Hong Kong, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China · Exact work coordinates

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Hero image

Headquarters building of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation

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Comparison

Field	HSBC Building (Hong Kong) 1985 · Hong Kong, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China	Atelier Perret Freres 1905 · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1985	1905
Place	Hong Kong, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China	Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Place context	Hong Kong, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China	Representative site: Quartier des Champs-Élysées, Quartier des Champs-Élysées, France
Climate	25°C · 12.8h daylight · 9 km/h wind	11°C · 14.1h daylight · 11 km/h wind · via Théâtre des Champs-Élysées
Focus	Civic building	10 works in corpus
Architects	Norman Foster	Auguste Perret
Linked context	Bureaus Foster + Partners	Notable works Théâtre des Champs-Élysées Église Notre-Dame du Raincy Perret tower (Grenoble) Chapelle du Rosaire de Vence
Typologies	civic building	building church sacred space tower landscape chapel housing memorial
Materials	Not recorded yet.	concrete
Carbon signals	civic building gives us a typology starting point even though the work does not have a recorded material palette yet. No dominant drivers yet.	Concrete look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Concrete
Lower-carbon levers	No levers surfaced yet.	Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps.
Accessibility	Publicly accessible	4 of 4 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.