LHT Tower, Commercial skyscraper in Central, Hong Kong
LHT Tower is a modern office building in Central Hong Kong with 28 floors rising approximately 131 meters (430 feet) high. The structure combines office spaces, retail stores, and dining areas in a single mixed-use complex located at Queen's Road Central.
The site held the Queen's Theatre, a cinema built in 1925. In 1958 it was demolished and replaced by the first Luk Hoi Tong Building, a 13-storey block designed by architect Zhu Bin. The rebuilt Queen's Theatre opened there on 21 July 1961, with an escalator that was Hitachi's oldest in Hong Kong before demolition. The building was demolished in 2008 and the current LHT Tower opened in November 2011.
The site's name comes from Luk Hoi Tong, the company that built the 1961 tower. Its cinema, the Queen's Theatre, had Hong Kong's oldest Hitachi escalator before demolition. Today the podium houses international brands such as Gap until 2020 and Swatch.
The tower stands at 31 Queen's Road Central, at the junction with Theatre Lane, next to MTR Central station. The three-level retail podium, basement and two dining floors are reached from the street and linked internally, so you can pass between shops and restaurants without going outside.
The first Luk Hoi Tong Building, completed in 1961, housed the Queen's Theatre, whose escalator was the oldest Hitachi escalator in Hong Kong before demolition. In June 2005 a British teacher dressed as Spider-Man climbed the building's facade to hang a banner from a large video screen.
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