| Shanghai Commercial Bank is designed as a slender tower of 27 stories with a typical allowable floor plate of 2,800 square feet, or 260m. The narrowness of the building poses particularly difficult structural issues, primarily in terms of the Hong Kong climate prone to high winds.
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-Major challenges included narrow site and restrictive codes
-Contains two-story banking hall and lobby, administrative offices, executive offices, boardroom and banquet facilities within 26 floors
-Aluminum and glass curtain wall design.
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