Central Plaza, Office skyscraper in Wan Chai District, Hong Kong
Central Plaza is a 78-storey, 374 m reinforced concrete tower at 18 Harbour Road, Wan Chai, completed in August 1992. Its floor plan is triangular with truncated corners, giving an internal column-free office depth of 9 to 13.4 m. The building has a 30.5 m podium, a 235.4 m tower body with 57 office floors and a sky lobby, and a 102 m mast topped by an anemometer at 378 m above sea level.
Construction began in 1989 on land reclaimed from Victoria Harbour during the 1970s, and the building opened in 1992. At its completion, it stood as Asia's tallest structure at that time.
The building's name says Central, but its address is 18 Harbour Road in Wan Chai, east of Central. The top mast carries the Lightime, a four-bar coloured clock that changes every 15 minutes from 18:00 to 06:00, flashing five seconds before each change; red appears three times a night, the last for a single minute at 06:00.
The ground-floor lobby is split over two levels: the lower one links by elevated footbridge to the Convention and Exhibition Centre, the Immigration Tower and Wan Chai MTR station. From the other level, express lifts run to the 46th-floor Sky Lobby, where users change lifts for higher floors. The podium's first level is a public thoroughfare with three pedestrian bridges.
The four-bar Lightime on the mast is not a conventional clock face: each bar holds one colour for a 15-minute period, the bars change from top to bottom, and the whole set blinks for five seconds before each change. From 18:00 to 06:00 the sequence runs red, white, purple, yellow, pink, green, with red appearing a third time for a single minute at 06:00.
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