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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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Field	Bank of China Tower (Hong Kong) 1990 · Central and Western District, Central and Western District, People's Republic of China	Douglas Cardinal Architect 1964 · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1990	1964
Place	Central and Western District, Central and Western District, People's Republic of China	Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Place context	Central and Western District, Central and Western District, People's Republic of China	Representative site: Gatineau, Gatineau, Canada
Climate	25°C · 12.8h daylight · 4 km/h wind	6°C · 13.7h daylight · 24 km/h wind · via Canadian Museum of History
Focus	House	3 works in corpus
Architects	I. M. Pei	Douglas Cardinal
Linked context	Bureaus I. M. Pei & Partners	Notable works Canadian Museum of History Telus World of Science Edmonton National Museum of the American Indian
Typologies	house tower landscape	museum house performance venue landscape
Materials	glass	timber
Carbon signals	Glass look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Glass	The recorded material palette leans lower-carbon on paper, but procurement and quantity still matter. No dominant drivers yet.
Lower-carbon levers	Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.	Track sourcing, certification, and assembly logic rather than assuming timber is automatically low impact.
Accessibility	Publicly accessible	3 of 3 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.