Cheung Kong Center
| Cheung Kong Centre | |
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| 長江集團中心 | |
The Bank of China Tower (left) and the Cheung Kong Centre (right)
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| General information | |
| Status | Complete |
| Type | Office |
| Location | 2 Queen's Road, Central, Hong Kong |
| Coordinates | 22°16′46″N 114°09′37″E / 22.27944°N 114.16028°ECoordinates: 22°16′46″N 114°09′37″E / 22.27944°N 114.16028°E |
| Opening | 1999 |
| Owner | Cheung Kong Holdings |
| Height | |
| Architectural | 282.8 m (928 ft) |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 63 |
| Floor area | 1,260,000 sq ft (117,000 m2) |
| Lifts/elevators | 30 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | Leo A. Daly, Cesar Pelli |
| Structural engineer | Arup |
| References | |
Cheung Kong Centre (Chinese: 長江集團中心) is a skyscraper in Central, Hong Kong designed by Cesar Pelli. It is 68 storeys tall with height of 283 m (928 ft) and a gross floor area of 1,260,000-square-foot (117,100 m2). When completed in 1999, it was the third-tallest building in the city. It sits on the combined sites of the former Hong Kong Hilton, which was demolished in 1995/6, and Beaconsfield House, sold by the Government in 1996. It stands between the HSBC Hong Kong headquarters building and the Bank of China Tower. As is common in Hong Kong, coloured lights on the sides of the building illuminate at night in intricate light shows.
The building is the headquarters of Cheung Kong (Holdings) Limited ("CKH"), and is owned and managed by its 49%-owned associated company Hutchison Whampoa Limited ("HWL"), while other tenants include several multinational banking firms.
The 26-storey Hilton Hotel building and its site, Inland Lot 7702, was owned by a wholly owned subsidiary of HWL, which licensed Hilton Hotels Group to operate it for 50 years. In January 1994, with about 20 years of the management contract to run, HWL announced the buyout of the unexpired term for US$125 million.
HWL had originally planned to redevelop the Hilton site into a high-rise office-retail complex, yielding a gross floor area of 584,970-square-foot (54,300 m2). HWL was keen to enlarge the redevelopment project by merging the hotel site with a neighbouring site to gain a greater efficiency, and commenced private talks with the Government in May 1993 with a view to acquiring the adjacent 33,700-square-foot (3,100 m2) car park site, and the 18,300-square-foot (1,700 m2) Beaconsfield House site from the Government. Talks were finalised in August 1995.
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