Design trends of tall building in Hong Kong

Hong Kong, located at the southern tip of China, is well known as one of the important financial capitals in Asia. As a result, high demand of space is required. With improving building technology, buildings in Hong Kong are reaching higher limits. This thesis presents an overview of design trends of tall building in Hong Kong from both architectural and structural perspectives. It also provides the design details of a few most famous and challenging structures in the past 20 years.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2003

Author dc:creator

• Chung, William Wai-Ming, 1979-

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Jerome J. Connor.

• Civil and Environmental Engineering.

Statement dc:rights

• M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/29554

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/29554