Hong kong bank buildings an inquiry into bank typology in hong kong

The building serves as headquarter to most financial organizations. The banks typology provides sustainable channels and pathways through which different activities related to finances is undertaken. This study seeks to identify and highlight deeply the typology of twenty banks in Hong Kong. It will evaluate different proponents that the architectural designers laid across giving comparison of each of the banks with the others. The Bank of China Building The bank of China comprises of great architectural art work located in Hing Kong. The staircase is efficiently designed to provide the anticipated services and has a great shape to meet the needs of the customers effectively. The automatic lift together with the designed staircase provides a great movement to customers from one storey building to another.

Customers, as well as workers, have a great channel to connect the different buildings across the bank over time. The Bank of China provides a great artistic component bringing culture into reality as it seeks to provide the much-anticipated service to its customers. The Bank of China Building compared with the Chinese bank building is a great consideration that has unique features. They can be able to access every part of the building without any difficulty. The lifts and the staircase are also located at the main entrance which allows customers and workers to locate the various places they want to go and easily move there. There are four zones of the lift that effectively provide the much-anticipated result to all the people visiting the place.

It forms a great instinctive proponent that is necessary to make sure that the right proponents have been considered while moving from one place of the building to the other (Law, 2002). The tenants of the bank building are mostly professional firms such as accounting and professional financial bodies. It is structured and located in a sustained place where access to its customers is easy. Despite the buildings around the structure, it provides an ambient environment where people can effectively undertake different activities without fail. The provisions that the building have is great giving the environment the right proponents that allow them to move from one place to the other. There are different considerations that the building has made including having the best office space and ensuring that movement of people across the different storeys is effective.

The building with all its provisions can effectively undertake different aspects that are required to overcome great challenges encountered in most constructions effectively. It ensures that a lot of people have had the best office space to undertake various financial services as well as financial advisory services. There are great considerations that have been undertaken in the entire process of distinctively identifying these banks and making them stand out to have such unique and well-structured designs. Both other banks have great insightful proponents that have the right procedural and undertakings that give the best offers. Tai Sang Bank Building Most of the architectural designs of the Tai Sang Bank Building is very similar with that of the Chiyu bank building. Both of the banks have 14 storey building.

Some great insightful thoughts and processes have been neglected in due course that could have helped in getting the right aspects of a great deal. From the architectural designs, it is clear that both the Chiyu bank Building and the Tai Sang office offers a great office space. The location of their offices provides the best space that serves a lot of individuals. It ensures that a lot of people have had the best office space to undertake various financial services as well as financial advisory services. There are great considerations that have been undertaken in the entire process of distinctively identifying these banks and making them stand out to have such unique and well-structured designs. Unlike the Chiyu bank building, the bank of American is easily accessible to the customers.

The customers can easily locate the different components and service units of the building. The building comprises of four retail floors from the basement which offers a great office space. The composition of office space is ambient and able to serve over one million people. Its interlinkages between one unit and one floor to another gives great insightful thought to the entire understanding of the different proponents of the building. The construction of the buildings has the same squared shape. The only difference is the heights of the banks with the Overseas Trust Bank having 29 storeys which provides a wide range of financial services. It has ambient office space that can serve a significant number of customers. The office space is approximately 168,000 square feet which are a great deal that serves people in a great way.

It is a great place through which different proponents have been undertaken with the distinct services that the bank offers to the people. There are no much complex buildings, and the topology is well structured like most banks. The building has a great insightful proponent that ensures that the people accessing the building have the best security that they desired. How every other structure has been designed gives a great insight to the general composition of the building and how the different aspects are being undertaken. Ka Wah Bank Centre The Ka Wah Bank Centre and the Bank of East Asia share the same structural design even though it provides some slight differences. The bank which is also located at the central district center making it accessible to more than a million customers in Hong Kong.

Also, there is the staircase which also provides services t those people who opt for it. The core of the building is like most other banks located at its extreme entrance. The bank provides great accessibility through the location of its core. The structure of the units provides the best possible proponent that have been sustainably considered in due course. The core of the building is the best path through which different considerations and access points of the building meet. There are other key considerations that the building poses and ensures that the rightful proponents have been effectively sustained over time. There are different aspects that the building considers and ensures that the building has met the right provisions and proponents.

Similar to Kah Wah Bank Center, the staircase of the Bank of East Asia building serves a lot of people who opt for it. It is also located at the entrance making new customers to identify it easily. The automatic lifts can serve a lot of customers over thirty in number at the same time. Despite the building having 47 storeys, the office space is limited. The bank does not effectively meet the best office space that is recommended. There are key aspects that have been neglected in the composition and construction of the building. The building ought to have taken the best possible proponents that enable it to address most of the needs of the people visiting the building. On the other hand, the building is one among the few that do not have great lifts that offers a significant service to the traffic of customers.

There needs to be an efficient improvement in the building for convenience. Standard Chartered Building The Standard Chartered Bank Building is also considered to be skyscraper extending to 42 floors within the central district in Hong Kong. The building is reputed to have a unique architectural design that effectively undertakes a unique cultural diversity of the country. It has a similar unique construction like the prize-winning building of all time, the Bank of China Towers. Both of the banks are known and reputed for being the best ever buildings to effectively become a great center for innovation. The staircase and the lift are adjacent to the entrance making it easy to be accessed by the visitors and new clients (Wan, Luk, & Chow, 2005).

New customer can easily find their way to different sections of the bank without encountering a lot of problems. The lifts work effectively leading to different sections and floors throughout the building. It can effectively overcome the different milestones that occur and ensures that the right directions are given to the clients and workers. The staircase, lifts and other core units provide sufficient help, and the location is similar to that of the HCBS bank. When making movements in through the building an individual will have first to understand how the different sections and structures have been designed and the right proponents considered in due course. It gives great insight and effective implementation of how the building has been constructed. The core is always the most important section in every building that makes sure that the right space within a building has been created.

Without considerations of the core that has been used, it becomes a great problem for how the different sections and subsections within a given building have been effectively designed. This bank has a completely different design and structure compared with HCSB bank and other banks across Hong Kong. The issue at hand is how different considerations have been first prioritized with the entire design. The structure gives the best proponents that effectively overcome the many different provisions and proponents that are important in the way different effects are being facilitated. The staircase just like the champion tower provides the best services in times of trouble and when there arises a particular emergency. It gives an insightful proponent that will effectively overcome the right channel to be undertaken.

The problem with the building is that its simple structure does not make it unique in its exterior look. The core is in the middle makes accessibility through the building to be possible and able to effectively overcome great insightful proponents that can defend the complexity of movements that can be established in the units. The lifts are also located in the middle at both curves of the building. It makes people who work in the building and the customers seeking different services to be able to access different points through the building effectively. This is a wonderful proponent and a great way through which the building offers the best plan and schedule through which the different proponents can be effectively reshaped.

The staircase of the building, like any other skyscraper, provides an invention that gives the best services to every individual in the building. The building has an identifiable unique channel of proponents that gives the best channels to overcome the problems of the design effectively. The bank extends thirty storeys that provides the best services both to the public and state agencies. It has retail stores and outlets that can serve different people across Hong Kong to meet with the different issues that they undertake. The busy retail stores that are located on the lower floors of the bank is a great place through which different form of trade takes place. The staircase and the lifts of the building provides a sustained proponent that effectively provide the best possible approach that can be effectively redesigned.

Citic Tower The Citic tower having 33 storeys provides a unique architectural design which is a few minutes’ walk from the MTR station. The building is easily identified from a distance because of its uniqueness and how it has been restructured and formed for a better service base. The building has a unique lift which is 13 in number serving a significant number of people at the same time. The exterior look of the building gives an insightful thought of the unique architectural consideration that was taken to make sure the building met the anticipated goal. It is one of the greatest building of the 21st century with all services intact giving great room to develop and undertake different financial related services. Agricultural Bank of China Tower The Agricultural Bank of China Towers is another great architectural work which is also located at the central district.

The building comprises of 2 storey tower that contains two floors offering retail services and the other being office space. There are great insightful considerations of the bank that has been outlined that effectively makes the building to stand out to be unique. The building is the easiest to access different sections considering the location of the core. It is easy for an individual to move from one floor to the other without any difficulty because of the structure and how the building has been designed. The building has the best approach that can be sustainably achieved and accessed by its customers. The simplicity in the building gives it the best design that enables a lot of activities to take place without undergoing different challenges in accessing the premises.

The building has a simple structure but a sophisticated security system that makes the building to an effective undertaking. The building is located in a place where there is a paranoiac look of the environment with the mountain backdrop and the magnificent view of the Victoria Harbor in the near parameters. This is a great opportunity for the people visiting the place to experience nature in its unique way. It contains different retail stores and financial banking office spaces. The shops that have been placed on the first floor makes the accessibility of the bank facility on other top floors to be easy. People can access the bank when they were looking for other things rather than financial support. Different channels provide space that the bank has used for parking and undertaking different conference facilities.

The bank has a lot of issues that range from one art design to the other sophistications that have been considered. It copies its uniqueness from different banks all over the world. In Hong Kong, the design of Hang Sang Bank is clearly definable with that of Chiyu bank building. A lot of banks have preferred the same construction because of the convenience that it serves. Different proponents have been considered to make sure that the right procedural undertaking in the buildings that have been considered has been undertaken. The building has a great entrance equipped with tight security ensuring all activities taking place within the bank premises is sustainably correct. The building has 22 storey building extends to great heights that can comparatively be seen to be similar to the Champion Tower which have 26 building.

It is structurally unique in the way in which it has been structured. The bank has significant stages through which the division of different sections has been undertaken. The processes that have been considered and highlighted in the building gives the best offers in the building. The core is in the same location as that of the Champion tower having its extension from the entrance of the building. Conclusion In summary, all the banks that are located in the central business district and across Hong Kong gives different structural components that are necessary for effective and unique architectural designs. All of the twenty banks that we have discussed through the study are clear indication that taste, cultural and unique architectural design is the key priority in obtaining a great business hub.