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International Commerce Centre
The International Commerce Centre (Chinese: 環球貿易廣場; Jyutping: waan4kau4 mau6jik6 gwong2coeng4) is a 108-storey, 484 m (1,588 ft) supertall skyscraper in West Kowloon, Hong Kong, located atop the Elements mall and near two MTR Stations (Kowloon and Austin Station). It is the world's 13th tallest building by height, 10th tallest by number of floors, and Hong Kong's tallest, as well as the only building in the city with over 100 storeys. The official height is 484 m (1,588 ft), which includes the 6 m (20 ft) tall parapets on the roof. It was the fourth tallest building in Asia, and the fourth tallest building in the world, when it was completed in 2010.
The south side of the building faces Victoria Harbour.
The height was scaled back from earlier plans due to regulations that did not allow buildings to be taller than the surrounding mountains. The original proposal for the building was called Kowloon Station Phase 7 and would have been 574 m (1,883 ft) tall with 108 floors, which would've made it the tallest building in China.
The tower was designed by the American architectural firm Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF) in association with Wong & Ouyang. It was built by China State Construction Engineering Corporation and Sanfield building constructor limited, a construction subsidiary of Sun Hung Kai Properties Limited.
Construction work was temporarily halted on 13 September 2009, due to a lift shaft accident that killed six workers.
The top floor is numbered as "118". However, levels with "4" in the last digit were skipped because it sounds like "death" in Cantonese and Mandarin (tetraphobia), similar to Western superstition about the number 13 (triskaidekaphobia). As a result, the remaining storeys' floor numbers are also increased; e.g. the top floor of the 68-storey building, The Cullinan, is numbered 93.
Except for level 3, 103 and 113, floor numbers with "3" in the last digit were also skipped, floor numbers 5, 6, 7, 26, 28, 29 and 105 were skipped as well for unknown reasons. They are currently replaced by floor numbers with "M" & "R", which stand for "Mechanical" and "Refuge". Although the floor numbers are missing, they still show on the elevator's screen of Sky100 and Skydining 101 while going up and down.
28 floor numbers were skipped: 4, 5, 6, 7, 13, 14, 23, 24, 26, 28, 29, 33, 34, 43, 44, 53, 54, 63, 64, 73, 74, 83, 84, 93, 94, 104, 105, 114
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International Commerce Centre
The International Commerce Centre (Chinese: 環球貿易廣場; Jyutping: waan4kau4 mau6jik6 gwong2coeng4) is a 108-storey, 484 m (1,588 ft) supertall skyscraper in West Kowloon, Hong Kong, located atop the Elements mall and near two MTR Stations (Kowloon and Austin Station). It is the world's 13th tallest building by height, 10th tallest by number of floors, and Hong Kong's tallest, as well as the only building in the city with over 100 storeys. The official height is 484 m (1,588 ft), which includes the 6 m (20 ft) tall parapets on the roof. It was the fourth tallest building in Asia, and the fourth tallest building in the world, when it was completed in 2010.
The south side of the building faces Victoria Harbour.
The height was scaled back from earlier plans due to regulations that did not allow buildings to be taller than the surrounding mountains. The original proposal for the building was called Kowloon Station Phase 7 and would have been 574 m (1,883 ft) tall with 108 floors, which would've made it the tallest building in China.
The tower was designed by the American architectural firm Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF) in association with Wong & Ouyang. It was built by China State Construction Engineering Corporation and Sanfield building constructor limited, a construction subsidiary of Sun Hung Kai Properties Limited.
Construction work was temporarily halted on 13 September 2009, due to a lift shaft accident that killed six workers.
The top floor is numbered as "118". However, levels with "4" in the last digit were skipped because it sounds like "death" in Cantonese and Mandarin (tetraphobia), similar to Western superstition about the number 13 (triskaidekaphobia). As a result, the remaining storeys' floor numbers are also increased; e.g. the top floor of the 68-storey building, The Cullinan, is numbered 93.
Except for level 3, 103 and 113, floor numbers with "3" in the last digit were also skipped, floor numbers 5, 6, 7, 26, 28, 29 and 105 were skipped as well for unknown reasons. They are currently replaced by floor numbers with "M" & "R", which stand for "Mechanical" and "Refuge". Although the floor numbers are missing, they still show on the elevator's screen of Sky100 and Skydining 101 while going up and down.
28 floor numbers were skipped: 4, 5, 6, 7, 13, 14, 23, 24, 26, 28, 29, 33, 34, 43, 44, 53, 54, 63, 64, 73, 74, 83, 84, 93, 94, 104, 105, 114
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