26 Nathan Road (), formerly known as East Enterprise Square or Oterprise Square
(), is a commercial 28-storey commercial building that was expanded from the Ambassador Hotel in Kowloon by
Sun Hung Kai Properties
Sun Hung Kai Properties Limited (SHKP; ) is a listed corporation and the largest property developer in Hong Kong as of 2019. The company is controlled by the Kwok family trust, largely the Kwok brothers. The Kwok family trust was set up by Kw ...
development. It is located at the corner of
Nathan Road
Nathan Road is the main thoroughfare in Kowloon, Hong Kong, aligned south–north from Tsim Sha Tsui to Sham Shui Po. It is lined with shops and restaurants and throngs with visitors, and was known in the post–World War II years as the Golden ...
and
Middle Road, in the
Tsim Sha Tsui
Tsim Sha Tsui, often abbreviated as TST, is an list of areas of Hong Kong, urban area in southern Kowloon, Hong Kong. The area is administratively part of the Yau Tsim Mong District. Tsim Sha Tsui East is a piece of land reclaimed from the Hu ...
area of
Yau Tsim Mong District
Yau Tsim Mong District is one of 18 districts of Hong Kong, located on the western part of Kowloon Peninsula. It is the core urban area of Kowloon. The district has the second highest population density of all districts, at . The 2016 By ...
, in
Kowloon
Kowloon () is an urban area in Hong Kong comprising the Kowloon Peninsula and New Kowloon. With a population of 2,019,533 and a population density of in 2006, it is the most populous area in Hong Kong, compared with Hong Kong Island and t ...
,
Hong Kong
Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delt ...
.
History
The building was designed in 1993 and completed in 1997.
The total cost of construction was .
The Ambassador Hotel that previously occupied the address was built in 1961 and had a 17-story-high exterior mural of the travels of
Confucius
Confucius ( ; zh, s=, p=Kǒng Fūzǐ, "Master Kǒng"; or commonly zh, s=, p=Kǒngzǐ, labels=no; – ) was a Chinese philosopher and politician of the Spring and Autumn period who is traditionally considered the paragon of Chinese sages. C ...
.
Features
The total gross floor area (GFA) of the building is .
The building is tall.
The building was designed as a tower block of offices above a "podium" of shops.
The podium has a corridor cut diagonally across it, designed to encourage pedestrians to use it to cut the corner between Nathan Road and Middle Road, drawing them onto private property in towards the shop fronts.
The corridor has a skylight ceiling, made of 12mm laminated glass.
The curved angled shape of the block in its lower levels, from floor 6 to floor 13, was designed to provide the best angle of the limited view towards the harbour, which is obscured by the neighbouring Sheraton Hotel and Peninsula Tower.
Above that, the view is no longer obscured and the office shapes are more orthogonal.
The curtain wall on all of these floors is 8mm silver-coated glass.
Floors 6, 7, and 14 house the building's mechanical services.
There are three passenger and one cargo lifts.
There is no parking, but there is a drive-through drop-off area.
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Skyscraper office buildings in Hong Kong
Office buildings completed in 1998
Tsim Sha Tsui