Hong Kong building designs, HK architecture

Hong Kong Building Designs

Contemporary HK Architectural + Property Developments in the Far East.

post updated 31 October 2026

We choose key examples of Hong Kong Building Designs. e-architect cover completed HK buildings, new building designs, architectural exhibitions and architecture competitions across Hong Kong. The focus is on contemporary Hong Kong buildings but information on traditional HK buildings is also welcome.

Hong Kong Building News – latest updates

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HK Architecture

Hong Kong is a major world business city, a trading post between the Orient and the Occident, the east and the west. The city is famous for the grouping of skyscrapers seen in the photo above.

Significant architects with buildings in HK include Foster + Partners, I M Pei, Cesar Pelli and Terry Farrell. The tallest building in the city currently is the 2 IFC tower. Celebrated Hong Kong architecture includes the Bank of China tower and the Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank building.

Hong Kong Architects – design practice listing and major architect offices

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Ten Key Hong Kong Buildings

Major HK Architecture Designs, chronological:

1. Happy Valley Racecourse Buildings, nr Wanchai
Architects: Leigh & Orange Ltd
World-famous multistorey stadium : Hong Kong Racecourse building

2. Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank – HSBC Building
Design: Foster + Partners, Architects
Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank

3. Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre – HKCEC, Wanchai
Design: Skidmore Owings Merrill LLP
Hong Kong Convention Centre

4. Bank of China – Tower, Central
Design: I.M. Pei & Partners, Sherman Kung & Associates Architects Ltd
Bank of China Tower : 367m high skyscraper building, strong diagonal motif design

5. The Peak – Peak Tower, Victoria Peak
Terry Farrell, Architects
The Peak Hong Kong building is reached by a funicular ride through upper HK

6. One International Finance Centre, Central
Design: Cesar Pelli & Associates Architects, Rocco Design, Hirsch Bedner Associates
Forerunner to the higher IFC 2 skyscraper (building behind, left) also by architect Cesar Pelli

7. Chep Lap Kok Airport, Lantau Island
Foster & Partners Architects
Hong Kong International Airport is reputedly the world’s largest : Chek Lap Kok Airport building

8. The Center, Central / Sheung Wan
DLN Architects & Engineers
The Center Hong Kong skyscraper glows in different colours at night

9. Cosco Tower, Central / Sheung Wan
Design: Hsin Yieh Architects & Associates Ltd
view from this Hong Kong skyscraper
Cosco Tower building

10. Two International Finance Centre – 2 IFC Hong Kong, Central
Design: Cesar Pelli & Associates Architects, Rocco Design Ltd
IFC2 skyscraper was the tallest tower in HK [415m high]: harbour views looking to hong kong with pencil of 2 IFC on right. The International Commerce Centre skyscraper [484m high] will overtake it, building under construction.

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Hong Kong Architecture Designs

HK Building Designs, chronological:

Hong Kong Building News 2026

6 January 2026
Offices for Hang Lung Properties
Architects: The Oval Partnership
Standard Chartered Bank Building, Central + Gala Place, Mong Kok

photo : HDP Photography

HK Architectural Designs in 2025, chronological:

18 December 2025
Central Yards Hong Kong Waterfront Development
Design: UNS

image courtesy of Henderson Land

HK Architectural Designs in 2024, chronological:

26 June 2024
I. M. Pei: Life Is Architecture
M+ Exhibition

photo courtesy of M+ / architects office
I. M. Pei: Life Is Architecture

One North Office Building
One North Office Building Hong Kong

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HK Architecture Designs in 2022 to 2023, chronological:

26 September 2023
QUE, ELEMENTS, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon
Design: Minus Workshop
QUE Restaurant Kowloon

6 September 2023
Pt Group Event Space, Nathan Road, Mong Kok
Design: Fat Design Studio Architects Limited

photo : Leung Wan Fei Lourance, Fat Design Studio Architects Ltd.
Pt Group Event Space

24 August 2023
Tai Kwun Education Centre, Tai Kwun
Design: Napp Studio and Architects, and Building Narrative
Tai Kwun Education Centre

13 June 2023
Hong Kong Stock Exchange Connect Hall
Design: LAAB Architects

photos by Kris Provoost, Otto Ng
Hong Kong Stock Exchange Connect Hall

24 May 2023
HKIA Community Building Hong Kong International Airport
Design and Project Architect, and Interior Designer: Aedas and Aedas Interiors

photo courtesy of architects office
HKIA Community Building Hong Kong Airport

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14 Sep 2022
AKI Hong Kong – MGallery, 239 Jaffe Road, Wanchai
Design and Project Architect: Aedas
AKI Hong Kong – MGallery Building Design

3 Aug 2022
Honbo, Kowloon, HK
Design: JJ Acuna / Bespoke Studio
Honbo Harbour City, Kowloon HK

11 July 2022
Hong Kong Cricket Club, Wong Nai Chung Gap
Design: Purcell
Hong Kong Cricket Club Sports Annex

21 May 2022
Exhibition Centre Station
Design: Farrells

photo : Kris Provoost
Exhibition Centre Station Hong Kong

7 Apr 2022
Sexy Crab, Kowloon, HK
Design: Minus Workshop
Sexy Crab Restaurant, Kowloon HK

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New Hong Kong Building Designs

HK Building Designs up to 2021, alphabetical:

1 IFC Hong Kong – One International Finance Centre, Central
1998
Design: Cesar Pelli & Associates Architects, Rocco Design Ltd, Hirsch Bedner Associates

2 IFC Hong Kong – Two International Finance Centre, Central
2003
Design: Rocco Design Limited, Cesar Pelli & Associates Architects
IFC 2 skyscraper
Tallest Hong Kong building 2003-07 – took over from the 374m high Central Plaza
Developers: Sun Hung Kai Properties + Henderson Land

2 Murray Road
Design: Zaha Hadid Architects

image © Arqui9
2 Murray Road

Airside, former Kai Tak airport
Design: Snøhetta

image courtesy of architects
Airside Hong Kong Building

Aspen Court
Design: Littlemore Interior Design

photo : Michael Perini
Aspen Court, Hong Kong Apartment

Bank of China – Tower, Central
1990
Design: I.M. Pei & Partners, Sherman Kung & Associates Architects Ltd
Bank of China Tower
Height: 367m high
Famous skyscraper with clean styling with strong diagonal motif and double spikes at top. Apparently bad feng shui according to some Hong Kong architects.

BREADstudio architecture projects

image courtesy of architects practice
BREADstudio Architects News

The Center, Central / Sheung Wan
1998
Design: DLN Architects & Engineers
The Center Hong Kong

Central Market Hong Kong
Design: TFP Farrells
Central Market Hong Kong
The heritage sensitive regeneration strategy by the architects reveals the hidden potential of ‘Central Market’ through minimal intervention, delivering a cultural, sustainable and enhanced public space. The brief specifically requested that the proposals responded to the heritage and cultural sensitivity of the existing Central Market space.

Chep Lap Kok Airport, Lantau Island
1998
Design: Foster + Partners
Chek Lap Kok Airport
Hong Kong Airport has been No.1 in the world since 1996 in terms of international air cargo throughput. Reports suggest it cost $20bn. Two islands were flattened to form roughly a quarter of the new island. Norman Foster built on his experience of Stansted, the first airport by Foster & Partners, in England.

Cheung Kong Centre, Queens Rd. Central Hong Kong
1999
Design: Hsin Yieh Architects & Associates Ltd ; Cesar Pelli & Associates Architects, Leo Daly, Architect
Cheung Kong Centre

Chu Hai Colllege Campus, Hong Kong – Architecture Competition
2010-
Design: OMA
Chu Hai Colllege Campus
The new campus of Chu Hai College of Higher Education in Hong Kong, designed by OMA has now started on site. The campus is due to open in 2013 and will provide 4,000 students with a new study environment. The Office for Metropolitan Architecture in collaboration with Leigh & Orange Architects won the competition for the new campus for Chu Hai College of Higher Education in the New Territories in Hong Kong.

Cosco Tower, Central / Sheung Wan
1998
Hsin Yieh Architects & Associates Ltd
Cosco Tower

The Cube Bio-Informatics Centre, Sha Tin
Design: TheeAe Ltd

image from architect office
The Cube Bio-Informatics Centre
As per design requirements of the Phase 3D design ideas competition which are to create an innovative iconic architecture, generate ingenious and sustainable low carbon design, and design the building which unifies the Park’s development in harmony with other buildings in the Park, a big challenge is to reveal the gateway of Hong Kong Science Park. The Park is the place where the science and its technology has been studied and developed in Hong Kong.

Design Society, Shenzhen, China
Design: Fumihiko Maki Architects

image © Design Society
Design Society Shenzhen Building

Elephant Grounds Coffee Mid Levels, Caine Road
Design: JJA / Bespoke Architecture

photographs : Grischa Rueschendorf and JJA / Bespoke Architecture
Elephant Grounds Coffee Mid Levels

FAO Schwartz – Playful & Interactive Workplace
Architects: Studio X

photography : Studio X
Playful & Interactive Workplace HK

FIS Tseung Kwan O campus
Design: Henning Larsen Architects

picture from architects
FIS Tseung Kwan O campus Hong Kong

Happy Valley Apartment
Design: Lim + Lu, Architects

photograph : Nirut Benjabanpot
Happy Valley Apartment

Happy Valley Racecourse
from 1846
Architects: Leigh & Orange Ltd
Hong Kong Racecourse building

Harbour Kiosk, Avenue of Stars, Tsim Sha Tsui Harbourfront
Design: LAAB Architects

photo : LAAB Architects
Harbour Kiosk by Entrance to the Avenue of Stars HK

HARMAY in Sheung Wan
Design: AIM ARCHITECTURE

photo : Dirk Weiblen
HARMAY in Sheung Wan

Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre – HKCEC, Wanchai
1988
Marshall Strabala of Skidmore Owings Merrill LLP
Hong Kong Convention Centre
Designed by architect Marshall Strabala, the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (above, viewed from Victoria Harbour) was extended to include 27,870-square meters (300,000-square feet) of exhibition space, a 4500-person convention hall, meeting space and high-end restaurants. Situated on Hong Kong Island along the Victoria Harbour, the extension was completed in 1997.

Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank – HSBC Building
1985
Foster & Partners
Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank
World-famous building, an early exponent of the H-Tech style and a very important project for catapulting this architecture practice into international renown.

The Hong Kong Community College (Hung Hom Bay Campus), Kowloon
2007
AD+RG
Hong Kong Community College
The project is an 18-storey institutional building for the Hong Kong Polytechnic University offering pre-tertiary education programme. The site is located at one of the highest residential density areas in Hong Kong, Hung Hum District, adjacent to the Victoria Harbor.

Hong Kong University Building, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University – PolyU
2007-
Design: Zaha Hadid Architects
The design of the 15,000 sqm building is typical for Zaha Hadid with its seamlessly fluidic structure. The PolyU building is being built at the northeastern corner of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University campus. The facility will offer space for 1,800 staff and students and will house a lecture hall, 10 classrooms, design studios and workshops as well as a design museum, exhibition space and a communal viewing lounge.

Hysan Place, Causeway Bay
Interior Design: Benoy
Hysan Place
This new urban retail destination in the heart of Causeway Bay, has been officially opened. Benoy are delighted to have been the Interior Architects and Designers on the retail portion of this dynamic development. Situated in the heart of Hong Kong’s shopping district, this scheme is set to become the new urban landmark for Hong Kong.

InterContinental Hong Kong
Design: Woods Bagot
InterContinental Hong Kong
Woods Bagot has recently completed the ballroom refurbishment of the InterContinental, Hong Kong. Inspired by the hotel’s unique position on Victoria Harbour, the design for the refurbished ballroom glistens, yet bestows a feeling of understated and refined luxury. “For the redesign of the InterContinental Ballroom, our artistic point of departure came from recognizing the hotel’s unique location on the edge of Victoria Harbour.

International Commerce Centre, West Kowloon
Architects: Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates with Wong & Ouyang
International Commerce Centre incl. The Ritz-Carlton – The world’s highest hotel
With interiors designed by Singapore’s LTW, the hotel includes 312 guest rooms with spectacular city and harbour views. Other hotel amenities include six distinctive dining venues, an 860-square-meter spa by ESPA, as well as a glass-enclosed infinity pool with LED screen ceiling and an outdoor terrace with a glass-enclosed bar, both on the 118th floor.

International Culinary Institute Hong Kong Building
Architects: Leigh & Orange

i-Square
Design: Rocco Design / Benoy
i-Square
A massive shopping and entertainment complex developed by Associated International Hotels Limited, iSQUARE is the new home to renowned international brands and offers an unprecedented shopping experience thanks to its unique design and retail concept, superb location, and innovative use of high technology and multimedia art.

Jardine House, Central
1973
Design: P & T Architects & Engineers Ltd
Jardine House Hong Kong
Located in the historic centre of Hong Kong by the harbour this 50-storey skyscraper was the tallest building in Hong Kong from 1972 to 1980. It lost the title of Hong Kong’s tallest building to the Hopewell Center.

Jockey Club Innovation Tower, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon
Design: Zaha Hadid Architects

photo : Doublespace

Joint Asian Market
Design: NC Design & Architecture Ltd

image courtesy of architects practice
Joint Asian Market

Kei Cuisine
Design: LWK + PARTNERS

photo : iMAGE28
Kei Cuisine Restaurant in Hong Kong

Kennedy Town Swimming Pool
Architects: Farrells

image Courtesy architecture office
Kennedy Town Swimming Pool in Hong Kong

Lippo Center, Wan Chai
1998
Design: Paul Rudolph, Wong & Ouyang
Lippo Center Hong Kong
172m high tower just east of the city centre, design by famous American Modernist architect

Lui Seng Chun Medicine Centre, Kowloon
Architect: AGC Design Ltd
Lui Seng Chun Medicine Centre
Constructed in 1931 on a prominent triangular site in the dense heart of Kowloon, Lui Seng Chun was a 4 Storey Tong-Lau (the local term for Hong Kong Shop-house typology), which G/F was occupied by a Chinese bone-setting medicine shop named “Lui Seng Chun 雷生春”- literally means “Thunders brings about the Spring” – an analogy for Rejuvenation of Health as Spring bringing forth new energy to the Earth.

The Luna Residential Tower, 18 Lun Fat St, Wan Chai
Design: Make Architects

photograph © Archmospheres
Luna Residential Tower Wan Chai

The Lyric Theatre Complex West Kowloon
Architects: UNStudio

renderings by DBOX ; Masterplan image: © WKCDA

M+
Design: Herzog & de Meuron with TFP Farrells and Arup

photo : Edman Choy, Courtesy of Herzog & de Meuron
M+ Museum of Contemporary Visual Culture, HK

M+ Building West Kowloon topping out news
M+ Pavilion Building West Kowloon for WKCDA

Building M+: The Museum and Architecture Collection

image by architects
M+ Pavilion West Kowloon

M+ Pavilion, WKCD
Design: Vincent Pang from VPANG architects ltd, Tynnon Chow from JET Architecture Inc and Lisa Cheung

image Courtesy architecture office
M+ Pavilion West Kowloon Building

Maggie’s Hong Kong
Design: Frank Gehry Architect

photograph © maggies
Maggie’s Hong Kong
The new purpose built Centre was designed by internationally renowned architect Frank Gehry, who also designed Maggie’s Dundee in Scotland. Maggie’s Hong Kong is the first Maggie’s Centre to be built outside of the United Kingdom.

Mean Noodles Sheung Wan
Design: OPENUU

photograph : Nirut Benjabanpot

MOKO, Grand Century Place, 193 Prince Edward Road West, Mong Kok
Design: Aedas, architects

image from architect
MOKO Hong Kong Building

Morty’s Delicatessen, Star Street
Design: JJA / Bespoke Architecture

site photography: Natasza Minasiewcz
Morty’s Delicatessen

Murray Hotel, 22 Cotton Tree Dr, Central
Architects: Foster + Partners

photograph © Foster + Partners
Murray Hotel in Hong Kong

Nha Trang Vietnamese Canteen
Architects: JJA / Bespoke Architecture

photograph : Adam Kuehl
Nha Trang Vietnamese Canteen in Hong Kong

Ocean Park Marriott Hotel, Southern District
Design: Aedas, Architects

image courtesy of architects
Ocean Park Marriott Hotel

Ocean Terminal, 3-27 Canton Road, Tsim Sha Tsui – Harbour City, Kowloon
Design: Foster + Partners

photo © Foster + Partners
Ocean Terminal Extension in Hong Kong

OLIV Causeway Bay Hong Kong

image from architect
OLIV Causeway Bay Hong Kong

Peace Avenue Apartment
Design: Littlemore Interior Design

photography : Michael Perini
Peace Avenue Apartment

Peak Galleria, Victoria Peak
Design: Aedas, Architects

photo : Kris Provoost
Peak Galleria in Hong Kong

The Peak – Peak Tower, Victoria Peak
1995
Design: Terry Farrell Architects
The Peak Hong Kong
Curious building shaped like a Wok on two legs, designed to look good on the skyline this is an early ‘icon building’. I felt that the place was a bit tacky and that the circulation was tight and confusing – and simply took in the magnificent view. Accessible by using the Peak Tram, a funicular ride through upper Hong Kong, taking you up to around 400m above sea level. Famously architect Zaha Hadid did one of her earliest building designs for The Peak architecture competition.

Phillips West Kowloon New Asia HQ building

image courtesy of West Kowloon Cultural District Authority
Phillips West Kowloon New Asia HQ Building

Pulsa Luxury Residential Development, Repulse Bay, HK
Design: Cary Lau – Aedas, Architects

image courtesy of architects
Pulsa Repulse Bay Luxury Residential Development

Savannah College of Art and Design
LEO A DALY
SCAD
The adaptive reuse project, which transformed the decommissioned North Kowloon Magistracy Building into Hong Kong’s first university focused exclusively on art and design, is also the first completed under the Hong Kong government’s new public-private program, “Revitalizing Historic Buildings Through Partnership,” initiated to conserve and transform historic buildings for innovative uses.

Sea World Culture and Arts Center: Cultural Design Hub
Design: Fumihiko Maki Architects

image © Design Society
Sea World Culture and Arts Center, Shenzhen

Spencer Ogden
Design: Space Matrix

photography : Space Matrix
Spencer Ogden Offices

Taikoo Place
Design: Gustafson Porter + Bowman

image Courtesy architecture office
Taikoo Place Public Space Development

The University of Hong Kong Medical School
Design: Atelier Nuno Architects

photo : Edmon Leong

Wesleyan House Methodist Church, 271 Queen’s Road East, Wan Chai
Design: Rocco Design Architects

photograph : Rocco Design Architects
Wesleyan House Methodist Church

West Kowloon Competition Pavilion Opening News, Nursery Park, West Kowloon Cultural District (WKCD)

photo Courtesy of West Kowloon Cultural District Authority
West Kowloon Competition Pavilion

West Kowloon Cultural District
Design: OMA
West Kowloon Cultural District design
The West Kowloon Cultural District Authority unveiled today OMA’s conceptual masterplan for a major new arts district in Hong Kong. Under OMA’s plan – one of three competing proposals – the 40 hectare waterfront site facing Victoria Harbour would become an authentic environment of three urban villages embedded in a new public park, Hong Kong’s largest.

West Kowloon Cultural Complex
Design: Foster + Partners
Foster + Partners was selected for the design of the 40-hectare masterplan for West Kowloon Cultural District. City Park will be a major cultural centre for music, performing and visual arts, incorporating public spaces and spaces for Chinese culture, living, working, galleries and studios on a dramatic harbour-front site in the heart of Hong Kong.

WKCDA Inaugural Hong Kong Young Architects and Designers Competition
Design: New Office Works

image Courtesy architecture office
Hong Kong Young Architects and Designers

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Hong Kong Buildings – No Images

Central Plaza, north Wan Chai
1992
DLN Architects & Engineers
Central Plaza

Creative Media Centre, City University of Hong Kong
2006
Studio Daniel Libeskind
First ‘chinese building’ by architect Daniel Libeskind

Emporio Armani Hong Kong
2001-02
Massimiliano Fuksas Architects

French Mission, Central – now the Court of Final Appeal
1917
Leigh & Orange

The Highcliff and the Summit
2002
Dennis Lau Wing-kwong – Dennis Lau & Ny Chun Man Architects & Engineers

Hong Kong Science Park Phase 2
2007
Leigh & Orange

Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
2007-
Woods Bagot
Business School and Advanced Learning Centre : US$100m

Hopewell Centre, Queen’s Road East, Wan Chai / Central
1980
WMKY Ltd, Architects
Hopewell Center

Human Genome Research Institute
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Llewelyn Davies Yeang, with T. R. Hamzah & Yeang
Hong Kong Research Center

International Commerce Centre Building, Union Square, West Kowloon
2002-10
Architects: Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates with Wong & Ouyang
International Commerce Centre skyscraper (118 storeys, 484m high)

Lok Yew Hall, University of Hong Kong
1912
Leigh & Orange

Mandarin Hotel
1965
Leigh & Orange

Nina Towers
2008
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pair of towers, tallest at 319m high, currently 22nd tallest tower in world
For Chinachem Group

Ristorante Isola
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Leigh & Orange Ltd

Shatin Racecourse
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Leigh & Orange

More Modern Hong Kong Architecture Designs online soon.

Location: Hong Kong, P.R.C., eastern Asia.

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