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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	Joseph Allen Stein 1952 · New Delhi, Delhi, India
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1990	1952
Place	Central and Western District, Central and Western District, People's Republic of China	New Delhi, Delhi, India
Place context	Central and Western District, Central and Western District, People's Republic of China	Representative site: Mumbai, Mumbai, India
Climate	26°C · 12.8h daylight · 6 km/h wind	28°C · 12.7h daylight · 5 km/h wind · via Express Towers
Focus	House	2 works in corpus
Architects	I. M. Pei	Joseph Allen Stein
Linked context	Bureaus I. M. Pei & Partners	Notable works Express Towers India Habitat Centre
Typologies	house tower landscape	tower housing
Materials	glass	stone
Carbon signals	Glass look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Glass	Stone look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Stone
Lower-carbon levers	Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.	Check source geography, fabrication intensity, and whether stone is structural, cladding, or finish-only.
Accessibility	Publicly accessible	Access not recorded across linked works
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.