The International Commerce Centre (traditional Chinese: 環球貿易廣場) (abbr. ICC Tower) is a 118 floor, 484 m (1,590 ft) skyscraper under construction in West Kowloon, Hong Kong; as part of the Union Square project built on top of Kowloon Station. The development is owned and jointly developed by MTR Corporation Limited and Sun Hung Kai Properties, Hong Kong’s metro operator and largest property developer respectively.
Its formal development name is Union Square Phase 7 and the name International Commerce Centre was officially announced in 2005. International Commerce Centre will be completed in phases: from 2007 to 2010. Upon completion by 2010, the skyscraper will become Hong Kong’s tallest building and will have the third highest roof in the world, after Burj Dubai and the Shanghai World Financial Center.
Sun Hung Kai Properties, together with another major Hong Kong developer, Henderson Land, also co-developed the current record holder for Hong Kong’s tallest building, 2 International Finance Centre – located directly across Victoria Harbour in Central, Hong Kong Island.
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- Location : Hong Kong
- Status : Topped-Out
- Groundbreaking : 2002
- Estimated completion : 2009
- Opening : 2010
- Use : Hotel, observation, office, parking garage, retail
- Height : Roof – 484.0 m (1,587.9 ft), Top floor – 476.0 m (1,561.7 ft)
- Floor count118
- Floor area : 262,176 m2 (2,822,039 sq ft)
- Elevator count : Passenger lifts – 30, Shuttle lifts – 14, VIP lifts – 2
- Architect : Wong & Ouyang (HK) Ltd.
- Design Architect : Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates
- Landscape Architect : Belt Collins & Associates
- Structural Engineer : Arup
- Developer : Sun Hung Kai Properties
- Management : Kai Shing Management Services Limited
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