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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	Piet Blom 1960 · Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1985	1960
Place	Hong Kong, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China	Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Place context	Hong Kong, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China	Representative site: Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
Climate	25°C · 12.8h daylight · 6 km/h wind	7°C · 14.3h daylight · 18 km/h wind · via Academie Minerva
Focus	Civic building	4 works in corpus
Architects	Norman Foster	Piet Blom
Linked context	Bureaus Foster + Partners	Notable works Academie Minerva Cube houses Cube house Theater 't Speelhuis
Typologies	civic building	building housing residential urban experiment dabas houses 3d modeling performance venue
Materials	Not recorded yet.	concrete timber
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.	Concrete look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Concrete
Lower-carbon levers	No levers surfaced yet.	Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps. Track sourcing, certification, and assembly logic rather than assuming timber is automatically low impact.
Accessibility	Publicly accessible	2 of 2 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.