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TYPE: Office/ Mixed-Use
Bitexco Financial Tower

Hyderabad Office Tower

Mabarak Center

Ritz Carlton Astana

Rotating Tower - Dubai

Ruby Mills Tower

Torre de Cristal

Canal Point

International Commerce Centre

Oberoi Commercial Tower

Shanghai World Financial Center

Battery Park City Parks Conservancy Maintenance Facility

Becton Dickinson Campus Center

Esentai Tower

Kazkommertsbank

Repsol Headquarters, Puerto Madero

AIG Tower and Footbridge

Rodale Publishers

47 East 91st St.

Espirito Santo Plaza

Parkhaven Tower

Capital Place

Korean Mission

The Children’s Place Headquarters

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

Sentra BDNI Center

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)

Pacific Place

Puerta de Europa

BASF Corporate Headquarters

International Trade Center (ITC)

Bank of China Tower

Harbour City Retail/ Office/ Apartment Complex

PPG Industries Corporate Headquarters

SONY Building

Century City Entertainment Theme Towers

US Steel Tower

Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

World Trade Center

16 Westlands Road

Beijing Jing Ao Centre

Industrial and Commercial Bank of China

Mixed-Use Development, Macau, China

Shangri-La Towers, Shenzen (Futian)

Shenyang International Finance Center


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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