Highcliff

Highcliff is a 252.4-metre (828 ft) skyscraper on a south slope of Happy Valley on the Hong Kong Island in Hong Kong. The 75-storey building's construction (70 floors of which are liveable space) began in 2000 and was completed in 2003 under a design by DLN Architects & Engineers. It was the Silver Winner of the 2003 Emporis Skyscraper Award, coming in second to 30 St Mary Axe in London. The tower is the tallest "all"-residential building in Hong Kong and ranks 95th in the world, if considering highest architectural feature.

For the suburb of Dunedin, New Zealand, see Highcliff, New Zealand. For the similarly-named town in England, see Highcliffe.
Highcliff
曉盧
Highcliff on 13 January 2007
General information
TypeResidential, parking garage
LocationHappy Valley, Hong Kong
Coordinates22°15′54″N 114°11′3″E
Construction started2000
Completed2003
Height
Roof252.4 m (828.1 ft)
Top floor241.8 m (793.3 ft)
Technical details
Floor count73
Floor area375,994 sq ft (34,931.0 m2)
Design and construction
ArchitectDennis Lau & Ng Chun Man Architects & Engineers (HK) Ltd.
Structural engineerMagnusson Klemencic Associates
References
[1]
Highcliff
Traditional Chinese曉廬
Highcliff (left) and The Summit (right)

Highcliff is thin for such a tall building; it has a slenderness ratio of 1:20 thus being one of the thinnest buildings in the world. Therefore a passive wind damper was fitted to the top, the first of its kind for a residential building.[2] This was installed because typhoons approach Hong Kong most late summers.

Due to, from many points, obvious association with nearby similar building The Summit, the two have been informally identified as "The Chopsticks".

See also

References
  1. "Highcliff - SkyscraperPage.com". Retrieved 29 December 2007.
  2. "Highcliff, Hong Kong | 100639 | EMPORIS". www.emporis.com. Retrieved 19 June 2020.
Preceded by
Post Tower
(Bonn, Germany)		 Emporis Skyscraper Award (Silver)
2003		 Succeeded by
Torre Agbar
(Barcelona, Spain)
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