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The Bank of China Building under construction in 1988. The tower was built by Japanese contractor Kumagai Gumi. Superstructure work began in May 1986. [8] The tower is a steel-frame structure. The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 interrupted publicity surrounding the building's design and construction.
The Shanghai Bank of China Tower (simplified Chinese: 上海中银大厦; traditional Chinese: 上海中銀大廈; pinyin: Shànghǎi Zhōngyín Dàshà), is a 53-story tower in the Pudong District, Shanghai, China. It was built for the Bank of China by the Japanese architectural firm Nikken Sekkei.
The Bank of China Tower occupies a gross floor area of 50,000 square meters (540,000 sq ft), consisting of two buildings. The east building is the main structure with ...
It was the world's highest hotel when opened in March 2011, and was surpassed by Rosewood Guangzhou on the top 16 floors of 530 m-tall Guangzhou CTF Finance Centre in September 2019, [15] and Heavenly Jin Restaurant of J Hotel Shanghai Tower on the 120th floor at 556.36 m (1,825.33 ft) in June 2021, [16] [17] although it says "HIGHEST HOTEL IN ...
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The Bank of China Tower in Central houses the headquarters of Bank of China Hong Kong. Designed by Ieoh Ming Pei , the 70-storey building's height is 315 metres with two masts reaching 369 metres. Construction began in 1985 and the building was completed in 1989, with its official opening on 17 May 1990.
In 1991, when the headquarters moved into the new Bank of China Tower, this building was used by Sin Hua Bank as its headquarters. After the restructuring of China's banks to form Bank of China (Hong Kong) in 2001, the building was returned to the Bank of China again and is used as a sub-branch.
Park Hyatt Shanghai is the tower's hotel component, comprising 174 rooms and suites occupying the 79th to the 93rd floors, which at the time of completion was the highest hotel in the world. It is now the third-highest hotel in the world after the Ritz-Carlton, Hong Kong , which occupies floors 102 to 118 of the International Commerce Centre .