Millennium City is a group of skyscrapers in Kwun Tong

Kwun Tong

Kwun Tong is an area in Kwun Tong District, situated at the eastern part of the Kowloon Peninsula, and its boundary stretches from Lion Rock in the north to Lei Yue Mun in the south, and from the winding paths of Kowloon Peak in the east to the north coast of the former Kai Tak Airport runway in...

, Hong Kong

Hong Kong

Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...

 built along the southern side of Kwun Tong Road

Kwun Tong Road

Kwun Tong Road is a major road in Kwun Tong of New Kowloon in Hong Kong. It starts at the junction with Prince Edward Road East, Clear Water Bay Road and Lung Cheung Road in Ngau Chi Wan...

 near Ngau Tau Kok

Ngau Tau Kok (MTR)

Ngau Tau Kok is a station on the Hong Kong MTR Kwun Tong Line. It is located in the Ngau Tau Kok area, between Kwun Tong and Kowloon Bay stations. It was opened in 1979....

 station and developed by Sun Hung Kai

Sun Hung Kai

Sun Hung Kai Properties Ltd. is a listed corporation based in Hong Kong. The company is controlled by the family trust set up by Kwok Tak Seng, who founded the company.-History:...

 Properties.

The Millennium City project currently consists of five buildings, numbered 1, 2, 3 ,5 and 6. The number 4 is widely regarded as unlucky

Luck

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 in many parts of Asia

Asia

Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...

 and in both Chinese

Chinese language

The Chinese language is a language or language family consisting of varieties which are mutually intelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the branches of Sino-Tibetan family of languages...

 and Japanese

Japanese language

is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...

 it is a homophone

Homophone

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 for "death".

Millennium City 1 and 2 are connected and share a mall and a lobby on their ground floor. They host the headquarters of Standard Chartered Bank

Standard Chartered Bank

Standard Chartered PLC is a multinational financial services company headquartered in London, United Kingdom with operations in more than seventy countries...

, a data center

Data center

A data center is a facility used to house computer systems and associated components, such as telecommunications and storage systems...

 and various other offices. They have shiny blue

Blue

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 glass walls and look modern compared to old factory

Factory

A factory or manufacturing plant is an industrial building where laborers manufacture goods or supervise machines processing one product into another. Most modern factories have large warehouses or warehouse-like facilities that contain heavy equipment used for assembly line production...

 buildings in the area. The two buildings are located opposite to Ngau Tau Kok Station

Ngau Tau Kok (MTR)

Ngau Tau Kok is a station on the Hong Kong MTR Kwun Tong Line. It is located in the Ngau Tau Kok area, between Kwun Tong and Kowloon Bay stations. It was opened in 1979....

.

Millennium City 3 is a continuation of buildings 1 and 2, but separated from towers 1 and 2 by the Meyer Building. It is also mostly offices and has a similar architectural design to buildings 1 and 2. However, glass

Glass

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 wall

Wall

A wall is a usually solid structure that defines and sometimes protects an area. Most commonly, a wall delineates a building and supports its superstructure, separates space in buildings into rooms, or protects or delineates a space in the open air...

s are used to a lesser extent and more white tile

Tile

A tile is a manufactured piece of hard-wearing material such as ceramic, stone, metal, or even glass. Tiles are generally used for covering roofs, floors, walls, showers, or other objects such as tabletops...

s are incorporated.

Millennium City 5 is built near Kwun Tong station

Kwun Tong (MTR)

Kwun Tong is a station on the MTR Kwun Tong Line in Hong Kong. The station was used to be the original terminus of the line until Lam Tin station opened in 1989. It is located in the Kwun Tong area, between Lam Tin station and Ngau Tau Kok station....

. The building is well-known because of the shopping mall it holds - apm. The project has a site area of 107000 square feet (9,940.6 m²) and contains over 700000 square feet (65,032.1 m²) of office space on top of a regional shopping centre of about 600000 square feet (55,741.8 m²). The Bank of East Asia

Bank of East Asia

The Bank of East Asia Limited often abbreviated to BEA, is the largest independent local bank and the third largest bank in Hong Kong. Its chairman and chief executive is Sir David Li...

bought the majority of office space here as a back-up operation center.

Millennium City 6 and 7 are under planning, and both will be built in the Kwun Tong Industrial Area, farther from Kwun Tong Road.