Highcliff
Sign in to savethumb|left|Highcliff (left) and The Summit (right) Highcliff is a luxury apartment building on a south slope of Happy Valley on Hong Kong Island in Hong Kong. The 75-storey building's construction (70 floors of which are liveable space) began in 2000 and was completed in 2003 under a design by DLN Architects & Engineers. It was the Silver Winner of the 2003 Emporis Skyscraper Award, coming in second to 30 St Mary Axe in London. The tower is the tallest "all"-residential building in Hong Kong island.
Key facts
- Building.name
- Highcliff
- Building.native_name
- 曉盧
- Building.native_name_lang
- zh-hant
- Building.image
- Highcliff 13 January 2007.jpg
- Building.image_size
- 200px
- Building.caption
- Highcliff on 13 January 2007
- Building.location
- Happy Valley, Hong Kong
- Building.construction_start_date
- 2000
- Building.completion_date
- 2003
- Building.building_type
- Residential, parking garage
- Building.floor_count
- 73
- Building.architect
- Dennis Lau & Ng Chun Man Architects & Engineers (HK) Ltd.
- Building.structural_engineer
- Magnusson Klemencic Associates
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thumb|left|Highcliff (left) and The Summit (right) Highcliff is a luxury apartment building on a south slope of Happy Valley on Hong Kong Island in Hong Kong. The 75-storey building's construction (70 floors of which are liveable space) began in 2000 and was completed in 2003 under a design by DLN Architects & Engineers. It was the Silver Winner of the 2003 Emporis Skyscraper Award, coming in second to 30 St Mary Axe in London. The tower is the tallest "all"-residential building in Hong Kong island.
Highcliff is thin for such a tall building; it has a slenderness ratio of 1:20 thus being one of the thinnest buildings in the world. Therefore, a passive wind damper was fitted to the top, the first of its kind for a residential building. This was installed because typhoons approach Hong Kong most late summers.