Two International Finance Centre
Tuesday, 28th June 2005 by Alex Turnbull
Overlooking Victoria Harbour (as seen in our previous post), is the Two International Finance Centre, which at 415.8 metres it is currently the tallest building in Hong Kong. Check out that shadow! Apparently it is the third tallest building in Greater China and the 6th tallest office building in the world.
Interestingly the building has 88 storeys, which is an extremely lucky number in Cantonese culture. Except that it doesn't really, because some of the 'taboo floors' like 14 and 24 are omitted (In Cantonese '14' sounds like 'You must be dead' and '24' sounds like 'It is easy to be dead'). There's more info at Wikipedia too.
Actually there's tons of huge skyscrapers right here, the Bank of China Tower for example, which was the first building outside the United States to break the 1000 foot mark.
Thanks to Chris G.
coolest skyscraper in the world! wud luv to see this thing in real life
Can someone locate where the famous old airport is? Its the one that inspired the opening in Kill Bill. Here is a link to a weird plane with a blue shadow just East of the New Airport, and that massive construction project just to the South of it is the new Hong Kong Disneyland opening this September.
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Google to the rescue. I found the old Airport here:
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Here is a website with some interesting appoaches to the old place. Talk about scary, but I do wish I could have experienced it once.
http://www.dvo.com/newsletter/monthly/2005/june/jest.html
I would have thought the old Kai Tak airport was obvious 🙂
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