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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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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	Josep Lluis Sert 1939 · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1985	1939
Place	Hong Kong, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China	Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Place context	Hong Kong, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China	Representative site: Sant Andreu de Palomar, Sant Andreu de Palomar, Spain
Climate	Climate unavailable	Climate unavailable · via Casa Bloc
Focus	Civic building	3 works in corpus
Architects	Norman Foster	Josep Lluis Sert
Linked context	Bureaus Foster + Partners	Notable works Casa Bloc Fondation Maeght Smith Campus Center
Typologies	civic building	housing museum house chapel sacred space education campus building infrastructure
Materials	Not recorded yet.	Not recorded yet.
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.	housing, museum, house, and chapel 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	No levers surfaced yet.	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.