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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	Jakob Friedrich Wanner 1860 · Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1990	1860
Place	Central and Western District, Central and Western District, People's Republic of China	Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Place context	Central and Western District, Central and Western District, People's Republic of China	Representative site: Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Climate	25°C · 12.8h daylight · 4 km/h wind	11°C · 13.9h daylight · 8 km/h wind · via Zürich Hauptbahnhof
Focus	House	13 works in corpus
Architects	I. M. Pei	Jakob Friedrich Wanner
Linked context	Bureaus I. M. Pei & Partners	Notable works Zürich Hauptbahnhof Frauenfeld railway station Sulgen railway station Weinfelden railway station
Typologies	house tower landscape	building performance venue
Materials	glass	Not recorded yet.
Carbon signals	Glass look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Glass	building and performance venue 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	4 of 4 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.