Langham Place Office Tower, Commercial skyscraper in Yau Tsim Mong District, Hong Kong.
Langham Place Office Tower is a 255.1-metre skyscraper of 60 storeys above ground plus five basement levels, completed in 2004 at 8 Argyle Street in Mong Kok. Its shaft widens slightly toward the top, where the right edge curves outward. Pale grey panelled bands with rounded grids of rectangular windows cover the upper and left faces, while a darker glass curtain wall wraps the lower right, reflecting a neighbouring tower.
Construction began in 2001, the tower was topped out in November 2003 and completed in July 2004. It forms part of the Langham Place complex, which also includes a shopping mall and the Langham Place Hotel. The architect was the Hong Kong firm Wong & Ouyang. Before the International Commerce Centre was built, it was the tallest pure commercial building in Kowloon.
The building shapes how Mong Kok looks today, where international companies and offices now cluster together. The space has become a meeting point for business people and commuters passing through the district daily.
The tower stands at 8 Argyle Street in Mong Kok, within the Langham Place development beside the shopping mall. Its 60 floors sit above five basement levels, and the higher storeys look out over Kowloon and Victoria Harbour. The office floors are served by Schindler lifts using the Miconic 10 destination-control system.
The tower's lifts are Schindler units with the Miconic 10 system, which assigns passengers to cars by destination floor. At the top, a hemispherical structure carries a lighting system that glows gold from Monday to Thursday and shifts through other colours on Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights.
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