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Bank of China Tower
William H. Jordy
Description: "Symbolic Essence" and Other Writings on Modern Architecture and...
"Symbolic Essence" and Other Writings on Modern Architecture and American Culture
To the Hong Kong resident it is a silver sword rising abruptly behind and above the dense collection of the city’s downtown skyscrapers, its seventy stories aggrandized by its position on the lower slopes of Victoria Mountain...
Author
William H. Jordy
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 2005 by the Trustees of Columbia University
Related print edition pages: pp.277-293
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00114.019
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-16319
Chapter subject tags:Pei, I. M., 1917-Architecture, Modern--20th centuryArchitecture--Hong Kong--History--20th centurySkyscrapers--Hong Kong

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