I must have wandered south along Cotton Tree drive and crossed over Queensway since my next photos were of the Bank of China tower.
The image below was taken from pretty close to the north-east corner of the tower. Not as foggy as the day before, it was still a cloudy day and if you look closely you can see the clouds just brushing the top of the tower. The cloud cover has given the almost white sky.
This iconic skyscraper is an I.M. Pei design. It is 315m (1,033.f ft) high excluding the masts and at the time it was built it was the tallest building in hong kong. It's now the forth tallest. The building was topped out in 1989 and occupied on June 15, 1990, which means it was unoccupied when I took this photo around August/September 1989. I didn't realize that at the time.
Interestingly, the site was formerly occupied by Murray house – the officers quarters of the Murray Barracks, built in 1844. When the plans were drawn up for the development of the central/Admiralty area, it was decided to dismantle Murray house to make way for the Bank of China Tower. Murray house was later reconstructed in Stanley on the south side of hong kong Island.
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Here I took the color image above and rendered it in one of the painterly styles with a global simplify effect added to appear almost sketch like. The top of the building just seems to merge with the sky.
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