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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	Karl Friedrich Schinkel 1810 · Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1985	1810
Place	Hong Kong, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China	Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Place context	Hong Kong, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China	Representative site: Cologne, Cologne, Germany
Climate	27°C · 12.8h daylight · 10 km/h wind	8°C · 14.2h daylight · 9 km/h wind · via Cologne Cathedral
Focus	Civic building	32 works in corpus
Architects	Norman Foster	Karl Friedrich Schinkel
Linked context	Bureaus Foster + Partners	Notable works Cologne Cathedral Marienkirche, Frankfurt (Oder) Chorin Abbey Stolzenfels Castle
Typologies	civic building	church sacred space cathedral building museum landscape education campus building
Materials	Not recorded yet.	brick plaster
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.	Brick and Plaster look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Brick Plaster
Lower-carbon levers	No levers surfaced yet.	Review masonry extent, reuse opportunities, and alternate assemblies where the design language allows it. Use classification and product-level EPD research to place this material more precisely.
Accessibility	Publicly accessible	19 of 19 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.