Cheung Kong Center
A 283-metre glass slab squeezed between the HSBC headquarters and the Bank of China Tower — architecture as a financial district power play.
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Cesar Pelli's 70-storey tower replaced the Hong Kong Hilton, demolished in 1995, and consolidated three separate government and private sites into one of Central's densest addresses. After dark, colored lights on the building's exterior run through programmed sequences — a nightly light show common to Hong Kong's skyline but here at close range on foot.
What to look for
- The narrow gap between this tower and the HSBC Hong Kong headquarters on one side and the Bank of China Tower on the other
- Colored light displays on the exterior facade after dark
- The 283-metre rise — when it opened in 1999 it was the city's fourth-tallest building, after Central Plaza, the Bank of China Tower, and The Center
In Central; approach from Queen's Road to see all three towers side by side, or view the light show from the harbor after sunset.
Cheung Kong Center is one of 34 sights worth the detour in Hong Kong, all bundled offline in Voyage GO — download the Hong Kong pack and it sits on your map with no signal, filling your travel passport the moment you walk past.
More to see in Hong Kong
- International Commerce CentreAt 484 m, this is the only building in Hong Kong with more than 100 floors — and it had to be trimmed down so it wouldn't overtop the surrounding mountains.
- Bank of China TowerThe first skyscraper outside the United States to break 1,000 feet — its glass triangles cut the Central skyline unlike anything around it.
- Central PlazaA four-bar neon clock 374 metres above Wan Chai changes colour every 15 minutes, blinking at each quarter-hour change.
- Hong Kong DisneylandThe only Disneyland where a walkway was deliberately bent so good qi energy would not drain into the South China Sea.
- The CenterAfter dark, hundreds of neon bars scroll slowly through the full color spectrum from base to crown — a light show wired into the steel itself.
- Tsing Ma BridgeThe span that ended Lantau Island's water-only isolation — 1,377 metres of road and rail hung from two towers.