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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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Hero image

Supertall skyscraper in Central, Hong Kong

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Comparison

Field	Bank of China Tower (Hong Kong) 1990 · Central and Western District, Central and Western District, People's Republic of China	Pier Luigi Nervi 1932 · Rome, Lazio, Italy
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1990	1932
Place	Central and Western District, Central and Western District, People's Republic of China	Rome, Lazio, Italy
Place context	Central and Western District, Central and Western District, People's Republic of China	Representative site: Turin, Turin, Italy
Climate	25°C · 12.8h daylight · 3 km/h wind	18°C · 13.7h daylight · 11 km/h wind · via Torino Esposizioni
Focus	House	5 works in corpus
Architects	I. M. Pei	Pier Luigi Nervi
Linked context	Bureaus I. M. Pei & Partners	Notable works Torino Esposizioni Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption (San Francisco) Norfolk Scope Paul VI Audience Hall
Typologies	house tower landscape	building church sacred space cathedral education campus building performance venue landscape
Materials	glass	concrete
Carbon signals	Glass look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Glass	Concrete look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Concrete
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.
Accessibility	Publicly accessible	3 of 3 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.