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The Arch (Hong Kong)

Sorrento (擎天半島)
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General information
Type Residential
Coordinates 22°18′23.7″N 114°09′44.2″E / 22.306583°N 114.162278°E / 22.306583; 114.162278
Construction started 2000
Completed 2003
Opening 2003
Height
Roof 256 m (839.9 ft)
Technical details
Floor count 75
Design and construction
Architect Wong & Ouyang
The HarbourSide (君臨天下)
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General information
Type Residential
Coordinates 22°18′11.0″N 114°9′42.0″E / 22.303056°N 114.161667°E / 22.303056; 114.161667
Construction started 2001
Completed 2004
Height
Roof 255 m (836.6 ft)
Technical details
Floor count 74
Floor area 128,845 m2 (1,386,876 sq ft)
Design and construction
Architect P & T Architects & Engineers Ltd.
Structural engineer Arup
The Arch (凱旋門)
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General information
Type Residential
Coordinates 22°18′13″N 114°9′47″E / 22.30361°N 114.16306°E / 22.30361; 114.16306
Construction started 2002
Completed 2006
Height
Roof 231 m (758 ft)
Technical details
Floor count 65 Above ground
2 Basement floors
Floor area 100,000 m2 (1,076,391 sq ft)
Design and construction
Structural engineer Ove Arup & Partners Hong Kong Ltd.
References
The Cullinan (天璽)
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General information
Location Union Square, Hong Kong
Coordinates 22°18′19.4″N 114°09′38.8″E / 22.305389°N 114.160778°E / 22.305389; 114.160778
Construction started 2008
Completed 2009
Height
Antenna spire 270 m (885.8 ft)
Technical details
Floor count 68
Design and construction
Developer Sun Hung Kai Properties
Structural engineer Arup

Union Square is a commercial and residential real estate project in Hong Kong on the West Kowloon reclamation. Covering 13.54 hectares (33.5 acres), the site has a gross floor area of 1,090,026 square metres (11,732,940 sq ft), approximately the size of the Canary Wharf development in London. As of 2011, the development houses some of the tallest buildings in Hong Kong — including the tallest commercial building in Hong Kong, the 118-story International Commerce Centre and the loftiest residential tower in Hong Kong, The Cullinan (270-metre (890 ft) high).

Union Square is located at 1 Austin Road West, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong. It occupies part of the 340 hectares of land reclaimed from Victoria Harbour in the 1990s to construct a highway and rail link to the new Hong Kong International Airport, and it integrates the Kowloon Station of the Hong Kong Mass Transit Railway. The built area includes 5,866 residential units (totalling 608,026 m2 (6,544,740 sq ft)), 2,230 hotel rooms, and 2,490 serviced apartments with 167,472 m2 (1,802,650 sq ft) of combined hotel and serviced apartment space and 231,778 m2 (2,494,840 sq ft) of office space. This development has a 82,750 m2 (890,700 sq ft) shopping mall, Elements.

The name Union Square is not well known and is seldom used, and as such, people tend to refer to its constituent parts, such as the Elements mall, the ICC, the W Hotel and the various luxurious private apartment complexes.

The contract to build and operate the airport railway was awarded to MTR in 1992. The master plan for Union Square, comprising the massive air rights development surrounding Kowloon Station, was laid out by TFP Farrells. The architects envisioned a three-dimensional mixed-use urban quarter, with numerous towers sitting atop a massive podium.


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