Hongkong Bank building

• The Hong Kong Bonk is a building in Hong Kong's Downtown, seen from Victoria Peak to the south.

• The building has a aluminum-clad steel structure expressed on its south face, with vertical masts consisting of tubular steel columns connected to function as Vierendeel trusses.

• The five suspension trusses at double-height stories each carry the weight of the zone of floors below.

• The building has aluminum-clad prefabricated mechanical modules on its west side and elevator lobbies protected by sunshades

• The top of the building has an element designed to be a helipad and two permanent maintenance cranes.

• The base of the building is devoted to a public plaza, with nearly equivalent entrances on the south and north sides.

• The east side of the building facing page moves most stylistically with its logical notation.

• The banks of modules respond to the zoning code's mandate for setbacks to minimize shadows, allowing the building to be seen as "mechanistic slices."

• The building's site is the present Bank of China's new headquarters, now rising to the southeast.

• The building has a helipad designed to have a streamlined effect, and at one point was to have the bank's logo rotating electronically around it.

• The double-height spaces have a terrace used not only for recreation but also as a refuge in case of fire.

• The glass-enclosed staircase and typhoon bracing for the windows are finely detailed.