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LOCATION: Hong Kong
International Commerce Centre

Landmark East

AIG Tower and Footbridge

International Finance Center Retail Bridges

Sai Wan Ho Development

Chek Lap Kok

International Finance Center, IFC1 & IFC2 and Four Seasons Hotel Audit

Tseung Kwan O

8 Wong Chuk Hang Road

Tung Chung Station Development

625 King's Road

The Floridian

Pacific Place

Tregunter Phase II

Bank of China Tower

Harbour City Retail/ Office/ Apartment Complex

16 Westlands Road

39 Conduit Road


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Bank of China Tower

Hong Kong

This 1.4 million-sf (131,000-sm) office tower consists of 70-stories and includes 2 levels of underground parking. For the first time, a megastructure composed of a pure space-truss is used to support almost the entire weight of the building...while making use of that same system to resist the lateral thrusts of the typhoon winds. Perhaps more important, by precluding the need for 3-dimensional connections, the space-truss is achieved without the need to resort to the complexities and the cost that have been associated with cross-braced structures of the past.
Client:
Sun Chung Building Management Co., Ltd.

Architect:
Pei Cobb Freed & Partners

Location:
Hong Kong

Gross Floor Area:
1.4 million sf / 131,000 sm

Height:
1,205 ft / 368 m

Awards:
Reynolds Award
Reynolds Aluminum Co.

Grand Award for Engineering Excellence, 1989
American Consulting Engineers Council

First Prize Award for Engineering Excellence, 1989
New York Association of Consulting Engineers

Best Structure Award, 1989
Structural Engineers Association of Illinois

Prix d'Excellence
L'Association des Ingénieurs, Conseils du Canada