The Center, Steel skyscraper in Central, Hong Kong

The Center is a 346-metre steel skyscraper at 99 Queen's Road Central, with 73 storeys and no reinforced concrete core. Its plan overlaps two squares into an eight-pointed star, and the tower is raised 20–30 metres on a stainless-steel frame. The facade alternates dark blue-grey glass bands with lighter grey spandrel strips; at night, computer-controlled neon bars run through the spectrum.

In 1988 the Land Development Corporation decided to redevelop the ageing block bounded by Queen's Road Central, Jubilee Street and Gilman's Bazaar, a process that took 12 years from land resumption to completion in 1998. The scheme shortened lanes such as Wing On Street, known as Cloth Alley, and moved its cloth shops to the Western Market. Designed by Dennis Lau & Ng Chun Man, the tower was built entirely of steel without a concrete core.

The English name keeps the American spelling "Center", unlike most Hong Kong buildings that use "Centre". The Chinese name 中環中心 means "Central Centre". At night the facade's computer-controlled neon bars scroll through the colour spectrum, and at Christmas they form a tree motif.

The Center stands at 99 Queen's Road Central, roughly halfway between the MTR Central and Sheung Wan stations. The office floors are reached by a sky lobby system: lifts run from the ground floor to the 6th floor, then to the 42nd floor, and finally to the upper zones. The building is primarily offices, so visitors can see the public lobby and entrance areas rather than the upper floors.

The building was among the first in Hong Kong constructed entirely with a steel structure, featuring no reinforced concrete core as was typical. This engineering approach was pioneering for the time and influenced how subsequent towers were designed in the city.