The Bank of China Tower (center) alongside the ICBC Tower, Feb. 28, 2017. [Photo/Xinhua]
The Bank of China Group Investment Ltd announced its intention to build the tower in 1984, the same year that the Sino-British Joint Declaration was signed, to show its confidence in Hong Kong's future.
The 315-meter-tall skyscraper (367.4 meters in total if including the spires on the roof) was put into use in 1990 to house the Hong Kong headquarters of the Bank of China.
Designed by world-renowned architect Ieoh Ming Pei, the skyscraper's bamboo-shaped structure embodies strength, vitality and enterprising spirit, while the granite-filled exterior walls of the building's base symbolize the Great Wall and China.
