Central Plaza
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Key facts
- Status
- Completed
- Type
- Commercial offices
- Architectural style
- Postmodern
- Location
- 18 Harbour Road , Wan Chai , Hong Kong
- Construction started
- 1989 ; 37 years ago ( 1989 )
- Completed
- 1992 ; 34 years ago ( 1992 )
- Architectural
- 373.9 m (1,227 ft)
- Roof
- 309 m (1,014 ft)
- Top floor
- 299 m (981 ft)
- Floor count
- 78 , 3 below ground
- Floor area
- 172,798 m (1,859,982 sq ft)
- Architects
- Dennis Lau & Ng Chun Man Architects & Engineers
- Developer
- Ryoden Development, Sino Land, Sun Hung Kai Properties
- Structural engineer
- Arup
- Main contractor
- Manloze Ltd
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.centralplaza.com.hk
- Image
- 中環廣場.JPG
- Height
- 374
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- Commons category
- Central Plaza, Hong Kong
- number of elevators
- 39
- floors above ground
- 78
- date of official opening
- 1992-00-00
- inception
- 1992-00-00
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Central Plaza is a 78-storey, 374 m (1,227 ft) skyscraper at 18 Harbour Road, in Wan Chai on Hong Kong Island in Hong Kong. Completed in August 1992, it is the third tallest tower in the city after 2 International Finance Centre (2 IFC) in Central and the International Commerce Centre in West Kowloon. It was the tallest building in Asia from 1992 to 1996, until the Shun Hing Square was built in Shenzhen, a neighbouring city. Central Plaza surpassed the Bank of China Tower as the tallest building in Hong Kong until the completion of 2 IFC.
Central Plaza was also the tallest reinforced concrete building in the world, until it was surpassed by CITIC Plaza, Guangzhou in 1996. The building uses a triangular floor plan. On the top of the tower is a four-bar neon clock that indicates the time by displaying different colours for 15-minute periods, blinking at the change of the quarter.