Glass canopy curved steel structure in Hong Kong Island

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This video is to show curved steel structure to support glass canopy. Its structure is found at the entrance of One Island East tower in Hong Kong Island. More details as following ;

Location : One Island East office tower, Taikoo Shing, Hong Kong
Developer : Swire Properties
Architect : Wong & Ouyang

Free form like structure support glass canopy. It's height is around 8 meter tall. Form of the structure is a part of unique element to emphasize the entrance and create the identity of the tower. The depth of canopy is around 11m.
The main entrance gate of office tower is well brightened.

-----------------------------------------about One Island East Building ------------------------------------
The skyscraper is a commercial office building, rising 298.35 m (979 ft) and has 69 stories plus two levels of basement. There is a sky lobby on the 37th and 38th floors.[4] In addition, there are 28 high-speed passenger lifts, six high-speed shuttle lifts between Main (G - 1/F) and Sky (37 - 38/F) lobbies, one passenger lift between the main lobby and basement car park and two service lifts.[4]

One Island East was built under the first use of the Land (Compulsory Sale for Redevelopment) Ordinance (Cap 545), exercised by Swire in 2000.[5] Part of the site was previously occupied by Melbourne Industrial Building (23-floor industrial building demolished 2005) and Aik San Factory Building (22-floor industrial building demolished 2005)[6] which were acquired by the developer in 2002 and 2001 respectively.[7] The main contractor was Gammon

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