Jutting into Victoria Harbour on the Wan Chai waterfront is one of Hong Kong's most impressive and stunning pieces of architecture. The Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, with its sweeping sails roof and vast glass windows, is a striking visual testament to Hong Kong's ongoing development. As the site of the 1997 ceremony returning Hong Kong to China, the adjacent commemorative Bauhinia Square is a huge attraction for Mainland visitors
Central Plaza
Located on reclaimed land in Wan Chai North, the 78-storey (374m) Central Plaza is among the tallest buildings in Asia. After dusk, bright neon rods at the top of the building change colour each quarter-hour, creating the city's most visible timepiece. The vast lobby is a palatial vision of marble, paintings and real palm trees
Bank of China Tower
This spectacular, 70-storey (367.4m), prism-like structure is the work of the renowned Chinese-American architect I.M. Pei. Completed in 1990, the building's asymmetrical form is pure geometry, and has been compared to a bamboo plant, which extends its trunk successively higher with each new burst of growth. The Bank of China is one of the three note-issuing banks in Hong Kong (the others being HSBC and Standard Chartered Bank
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