Revenue Tower, Government skyscraper in Wan Chai, Hong Kong
The Revenue Tower is a 49-storey government office skyscraper at 5 Gloucester Road in Wan Chai, completed in 1991. Its facade is mostly dark glass in a dense grid of rectangular panes, divided into broad vertical bands by dark horizontal strips at several levels. To the left, the lower portion steps out in a lighter section with rows of small square windows. A sky lobby on the 38th floor serves the upper floors.
The building opened in 1990 as Wanchai Tower III before receiving its current name in 1991. The renaming coincided with the relocation of the Inland Revenue Department to this location.
The tower's name comes from the Inland Revenue Department, which moved in from Windsor House in Causeway Bay in December 1991 and occupied the building until all offices left for the Kai Tak Revenue Centre in May 2023. A post office long operated on the south side of the 1st floor, and the 25th floor now holds the Inter-departmental Counter-Terrorism Unit's Safe Community Experience Hall, open to the public.
The tower sits at 5 Gloucester Road in a busy government precinct that is easily accessible on foot. The neighborhood has good public transportation links, making it simple to visit or pass by the location.
The building allowed the government to save substantial costs by consolidating scattered offices into a single location from earlier distributed sites. This consolidation step was an important part of modernizing Hong Kong's administrative infrastructure.
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