The Bank of China TowerBy:Isaac Um

The bank of china. Photo from below

Introduction

This is a photo story and we took the photos at central. We took the Peak Tram to Central and visited three structures. The Bank of China Tower, St John’s Cathedral and HSBC. At around 12:30 we took the Peak Tram back to peak school.

Us in the Peak Tram heading towards Central.

The building was built by I.M Pei and started getting built at 18 April 1985 and finished construction at 1990.

This structure is located in central and western Central, no.1 Garden Road, on Hong Kong Island. If the people in Hong Kong hadn’t decided to make the shore line further away from where it should have been, The Bank Of China Tower would be under water!

The Location

The Bank of China

How it was made The Bank of China

Tower was made with four parts. The parts increased in height which makes it a bit like stairs. The builders added roofs to each section which made it look better. The building was made to look like a bamboo shaft.

The building has a gargantuan amount of “X”s on the faces of the structure.

The Buildings Looks The “X”s create triangles and squares on the faces of the building.

The Bank of China Tower is made of four triangular prisms of different heights.

Technology has made making very tall buildings possible and another reason why this building is tall is because of lack of space to build on.

The Influences of This Building

There is a lot of glass because people can afford to make it that way and it looks more modern. There is now technology to make buildings with glass.

The Building was built to look like a bamboo shaft because bamboo is the symbol of strength, development and vivacity in the Chinese tradition.

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