Address Hong Kong, 遮打道10號 Floors 29 | Height 114 m Opened 1965 | |
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Similar Alexandra House, Pacific Place, Jardine House, Chater House, International Finance Centre | ||
The Prince's Building (Chinese: 太子大廈) is an office tower and shopping centre located along the western side of the southern section of Statue Square in Central, Hong Kong. There have been two successive buildings with the same name at the same location.
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First generation
The first Prince's Building was a four storey Renaissance architecture building in 1904 on land created from the Chater reclamation, located directly south of Queen's Building, completed in 1899. The building was designed by Leigh & Orange and had similarities with the Hong Kong Club Building built in 1897. It was replaced by the present building in 1965.
The first building housed several bank and law firm offices including:
Second generation
In 1963 the first building was demolished to make way for the current Prince's Building. It was designed by architecture firm Aedas. The 29 floor complex is an office and retail complex and is owned by Hongkong Land. It is famous for smaller upmarket boutique style shops. Tenants of the office tower include Mayer Brown JSM, KPMG, and PricewaterhouseCoopers.
The complex borders Statue Square, which it surrounds together with Hong Kong Club Building, Old Supreme Court Building, Mandarin Oriental (former site of Queen's Building) and HSBC Main Building.