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Bank of China Tower (Hong Kong) in Central and Western District, People's Republic of China
Bank of China Tower (Hong Kong)

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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Bank of China Tower (Hong Kong)

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Supertall skyscraper in Central, Hong Kong

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Bank of China Tower (Hong Kong)Bank of China Tower (Hong Kong)

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

Foster + PartnersFoster + Partners

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Typeworkbureau
Year / years1990Unrecorded
PlaceCentral and Western District, Central and Western District, People's Republic of ChinaAbu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Place contextCentral and Western District, Central and Western District, People's Republic of ChinaRepresentative site: Dresden, Dresden, Germany
Climate27°C · 12.8h daylight · 9 km/h wind8°C · 14.2h daylight · 13 km/h wind · via Dresden Hauptbahnhof
FocusHouse55 works in corpus
Architects
  • I. M. Pei
  • Norman Foster
Linked context

Bureaus

  • I. M. Pei & Partners

Notable works

  • Dresden Hauptbahnhof
  • Reichstag building
  • British Library of Political and Economic Science
  • Cohen House, London
Typologies
  • house
  • tower
  • landscape
  • building
  • library
  • education
  • house
  • church
  • sacred space
  • museum
  • gallery
Materials
  • glass
  • glass
  • steel
  • granite
  • ETFE
  • wood
  • concrete
  • stone
Carbon signals

Glass look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette.

  • Glass

Concrete, Steel, and ETFE look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette.

  • Concrete
  • Steel
  • ETFE
Lower-carbon levers
  • Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.
  • Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps.
  • Prioritize recycled content, efficient sections, and procurement-specific EPD comparisons.
  • Use classification and product-level EPD research to place this material more precisely.
  • Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.
AccessibilityPublicly accessible10 of 10 recorded works are publicly accessible
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