TWO INTERNATIONAL FINANCE CENTRE
Central District, HONG KONG
Tallest Building in
Hong Kong (2003 – 2009)
Present Second Tallest
building
Two International Finance
Centre, a commercial offices completed in 2003, is attached to the second phase
of the IFC mall. This 415-metre-tall (1,362 ft) building, currently Hong
Kong's second tallest, is quoted as having 88 storey’s and 22 high-ceiling
trading floors to qualify as being extremely auspicious in Chinese culture. It
is behind the International Commerce Centre in West Kowloon. It is the fourth-tallest building in the
Greatest China Region and the eighth-tallest office building in the world,
based on structural heights; by
roof height.
It is, however, short of the
magic number, because "taboo floors" like 14th and 24th are omitted
as being inauspicious – because 4 sounds like 'die' in Cantonese.
IFC was constructed and is
owned by IFC Development, a consortium of Sun Hung Kai Properties, Henderson
Land and Towngas.
In 2003, Financial Times,
HSBC, and Cathay Pacific put up an advertisement on the facade that stretched
more than 50 storey’s, covering an area of 19,000 m² (0.2 million square
ft) and a length of 230 m, making it the world's largest advertisement ever put
on a skyscraper.
