TaiKoo Place

Map of TaiKoo Place

TaiKoo Place

TaiKoo Place (Chinese: 太古坊) is a commercial complex in Quarry Bay, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong. It consists of 10 office towers: Devon House, Dorset House, PCCW Tower, Warwick House, Cornwall House, Somerset House, Lincoln House, Oxford House, Cambridge House and One Island East. The Island East development strectching from Cityplaza and TaiKoo Place, which is owned and managed by Swire Properties. The MTR Quarry Bay Station and all the office towers are linked with air-conditioned footbridges. A new 68 storey, 308 m commercial building (currently named as One Island East) stands next to the junction of Westlands Road and Taikoo Shing Road. The current site of TaiKoo Place was previously Taikoo Sugar Refinery and the dockyard. It was redeveloped to become a unique metropolitan environment for business and pleasure since the late 1980s.

TaiKoo Place seats many advertisement and information technology firms. The PCCW Tower, the tower just next to Dorset House is where the headquarter of PCCW, a Hong Kong-based telecommunication company, seats. The local headquarter of IBM is also situated there, occupying the first 15 storeys. Ironically, more IT firms choose to have their Hong Kong base in TaiKoo Place rather than in Cyberport, which was particularly built for this purpose.

The neighbourhood of TaiKoo Place was once residential and industrial. When TaiKoo Place was built, it resulted in a transformation of the region. Many pubs and restaurants were set up around the region.

Buildings

• Warwick House (1979)
• Cornwall House (1984)
• Somerset House (1988)
• Devon House (1993)
• Dorset House (1994)
• PCCW Tower (1994)
• Lincoln House (1998)
• Oxford House (1999)
• Cambridge House (2003)
• One Island East (2008)

See also

• List of tallest buildings in Hong Kong

External links

• Wong & Ouyang (HK) Ltd., "More than half-a-century of architectural design experience in Hong Kong", section "TaiKoo Place", pp. 36–43, September 2009