TaiKoo Place is a commercial complex in Quarry Bay

Quarry Bay

Quarry Bay is an area beneath Mount Parker in the Eastern District of Hong Kong Island, in Hong Kong. The western portion of the area was also formerly known as Lai Chi...

, Hong Kong Island

Hong Kong Island

Hong Kong Island is an island in the southern part of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. It has a population of 1,289,500 and its population density is 16,390/km², as of 2008...

, 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...

. 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

One Island East

One Island East , is a supertall skyscraper that is located in TaiKoo Place on Island East, Hong Kong. The skyscraper is a commercial office building that rises 298.35 m and has 69 stories of habitable office space and two basement levels, thus contains 71 stories in total. There is a sky lobby...

. The Island East

Island East

Island East is a residential, commercial and recreational complex in Eastern District, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, which consists of Taikoo Place, Taikoo Shing & Cityplaza. The complex is owned and managed by Swire Properties.-External links:*...

 development strectching from Cityplaza

Cityplaza

Cityplaza , located in Taikoo Shing in the Eastern District of Hong Kong Island, is one of the shopping malls operated by Swire Properties . The mall forms the Island East development with Taikoo Shing and Taikoo Place. The mall has a total of six floors. There are also three large commercial...

 and TaiKoo Place, which is owned and managed by Swire Properties

Swire Properties

Swire Properties Limited is a property developer in Hong Kong and mainland China, with its headquarters in Hong Kong. The company is a subsidiary of publicly-listed Swire Pacific...

. The MTR Quarry Bay Station

Quarry Bay (MTR)

Quarry Bay Station is an underground station on the MTR Island Line on Hong Kong Island and Tseung Kwan O Line between Hong Kong Island and Tseung Kwan O New Town in the New Territories, Hong Kong. The livery is teal green.-Location:...

 and all the office towers are linked with air-conditioned footbridges. A new 68 storey

Storey

A storey or story is any level part of a building that could be used by people...

, 308 m commercial building (currently named as One Island East

One Island East

One Island East , is a supertall skyscraper that is located in TaiKoo Place on Island East, Hong Kong. The skyscraper is a commercial office building that rises 298.35 m and has 69 stories of habitable office space and two basement levels, thus contains 71 stories in total. There is a sky lobby...

) stands next to the junction of Westlands Road and Taikoo Shing Road. The current site of TaiKoo Place was previously Taikoo Sugar

Sugar

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 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

Information technology

Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...

 firms. The PCCW Tower, the tower just next to Dorset House is where the headquarter of PCCW

PCCW

PCCW Limited is the holding company of HKT Group Holdings Limited, Hong Kong's premier telecommunications provider in the Information and Communications Technologies industry. PCCW also holds a majority interest in Pacific Century Premium Developments Limited...

, a 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...

-based telecommunication

Telecommunication

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 company, seats. The local headquarter of IBM

IBM

International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...

 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

Cyberport

Cyberport is a creative digital community with a cluster of technology and digital content tenants. It is owned and managed by Hong Kong Cyberport Management Company Limited which is wholly owned by the Hong Kong SAR Government...

, 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
  One Island East
  One Island East , is a supertall skyscraper that is located in TaiKoo Place on Island East, Hong Kong. The skyscraper is a commercial office building that rises 298.35 m and has 69 stories of habitable office space and two basement levels, thus contains 71 stories in total. There is a sky lobby...
  
   (2008)

External links

• Wong & Ouyang (HK) Ltd.
  Wong & Ouyang (HK) Ltd.
  Wong & Ouyang Ltd. is a group of architectural and engineering practice with offices in Hong Kong, Shanghai and Guangzhou.-External links:* * Wong & Ouyang Ltd., , September 2009...
  
  , "More than half-a-century of architectural design experience in Hong Kong", section "TaiKoo Place", pp. 36-43, September 2009