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The HSBC Hong Kong headquarter building is located along the southern side of Statue Square, in Central, at the location of the old City Hall (built 1869, demolished 1933). Its address is 1 Queen's Road, Central. One could reach it at 5-minute walk from Central MTR Station or from Star Ferry Pier. The initial HSBC building was built in 1935. It was demolished in 1981 and rebuilt at the same site in April 1986. When the construction works were completed, it has become the most expensive building in the world (c.a.HK$5.2 billion).
The new building was designed by the British architect Norman Foster. From the concept to completion, it took 6 years ( 1979- 19851985 is a common year starting on Tuesday. Events January events January 1 Creation of the Internet's Domain Name System. January 17 British Telecom annouces they are going to abolish the famous red telephone boxes. January 23 A debate in the House of Lor). The building is a 180-meter high building of 47 storeys and four basement levels. The building has a module design consisting of five steelSteel is a metal alloy whose major component is iron, with carbon being the primary alloying material. Carbon acts as a binding agent, locking the otherwise easily-moved iron atoms into a rigid lattice. Varying the amount of carbon and its distribution in modules prefabricated in the UK and shipped to Hong Kong. 30,000 tonnes of steel and 4,500 tonnes of aluminum were used. It costs over US $670 million.
The main characteristic of HSBC Hong Kong headquarter is its absence of internal supporting structure.
Another one is that natural sunlightSunlight in the broad sense is the total spectrum of electromagnetic radiation given off by the Sun. On Earth, solar radiation is obvious as daylight when the Sun is above the horizon. This is usually during the hours known as day''. Near the poles in sum is the major source of lighting inside the building. There is a bank of giant mirrors at the top of the atrium, which can reflect natural sunlight into the atrium and hence down into the plaza. Through the use of natural sunlight, this design helps a lot in conserving energy. Besides, sun shades are provided on the external facades to avoid direct sunlight going into the building and to reduce heat gain. Instead of fresh water, sea water is used for toilet flushing and as coolant for the air-conditioning system.
All flooring is made from lightweight movable panels, under which you can find out a comprehensive network of power, telecommunicationTelecommunication is the extension of communication over a distance. In practice it also recognizes that something may be lost in the process; hence the term 'telecommunication' covers all forms of distance and/or conversion of the original communications and air-conditioning systems. Hence installation of equipments or computer terminals become far easier.
Because of the urgency to complete, the construction of the building highly relied on off-site prefabrication. Components were manufactured all over the world. For example, the structural steel came from BritainThe word Britain is used to refer to the United Kingdom (UK): i. the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (from 1927), the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ( 1801- 1927) or the United Kingdom of Great Britain ( 1707- 1801).; the glass, aluminium cladding and flooring came from the United States while the service modules came from JapanJapan (, Nippon/Nihon literally "the origin of the sun") is a country in East Asia situated on a chain of islands east of the Asian continent on the western edge of the Pacific Ocean. The largest of these islands are, from north to south, Hokkaido , Honsh.
The inverted ‘va’ segments of the suspension trusses spanning the construction at double-height levels is the most obvious characteristic of the building. It consists of the eight groups of four aluminium-clad steel columns which ascend from the foundations up through the core structure, and the five levels of triangular suspension trusses which are locked into these masts.
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