Stonecutters Bridge
A 1,018-metre span with twin towers rising over working container ships — engineering at a scale you feel before you can measure it.
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When it opened in December 2009, Stonecutters Bridge held the world's second-longest cable-stayed span. Its two towers straddle Rambler Channel — one grounded on Tsing Yi Island, one on Stonecutters Island — with active container terminals framing both approaches. It won the 2009 Tanaka Award from Japan's civil engineering society and the 2010 Supreme Award from the UK's Institution of Structural Engineers.
What to look for
- Two separate bridge towers, each anchored on a different island across the Rambler Channel
- Container Terminal 9 on the Tsing Yi approach and Container Terminal 8 on the Stonecutters Island side
- The 1,018 m main span — designed by Dissing+Weitling and Arup, now the world's third-longest cable-stayed span
The bridge carries Route 8 road traffic; cross it by car or bus traveling between Tsing Yi and Stonecutters Island.
Stonecutters Bridge 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.