Nina Tower is a twin tower of 80-storey and 42-storey high-rise buildings in
Tsuen Wan
Tsuen Wan (formerly also spelled Tsun Wan) is a town built on a bay in the western New Territories of Hong Kong, opposite of Tsing Yi Island across Rambler Channel. The market town of Tsuen Wan emerged from the surrounding villages and flee ...
,
New Territories
The New Territories is one of the three main regions of Hong Kong, alongside Hong Kong Island and the Kowloon Peninsula. It makes up 86.2% of Hong Kong's territory, and contains around half of the population of Hong Kong. Historically, it ...
, Hong Kong near
Tsuen Wan West station
Tsuen Wan West is an underground MTR station in Tsuen Wan, New Territories, Hong Kong. It is located between and stations on the . There is an emergency platform on the southern side of the station.
There is a large bus and minibus interch ...
. The tower was designed to be the
tallest tower in the world at . However, due to its location near
Chek Lap Kok Airport
Hong Kong International Airport is Hong Kong's main airport, built on reclaimed land on the island of Chek Lap Kok, Hong Kong. The airport is also referred to as Chek Lap Kok International Airport or ''Chek Lap Kok Airport'', to distinguish ...
, the height was restricted to the current .
The owner of
Chinachem Group
Chinachem Group () is a corporate group established in Hong Kong by Teddy Wang's father Wang Din Sin (王廷歆).
The early years of the group were dedicated to exploration of and investment in agricultural projects and chemicals. In the 196 ...
later changed her plan and broke it into two towers. The lower is known as Nina Tower, symbolising the late
Nina Wang or Kung Yu Sum natively, the owner of Chinachem Group; the higher is Teddy Tower, symbolising her husband
Teddy Wang
Teddy Wang Teh-huei (; 9 September 1933 – missing since 10 April 1990) was a Chinese people, Chinese businessman and founder of the Chinachem Group who was kidnapped for ransom in 1990, and later declared legally dead. His wife, Nina Wang later ...
, who was kidnapped and has since disappeared. Despite the different tower names, the whole development is called Nina Tower.
The complex is home to a 1608-room premium hotel, Nina Hotel Tsuen Wan West, office space, shopping mall and convention & event space.
Sky Lobby
A sky lobby is an intermediate interchange floor in a skyscraper where people can change from an express elevator that stops only at the sky lobby to a local elevator that stops at a subset of higher floors.
When designing supertall buildings, ...
is located at the 41st floor which connects the 2 towers.
The head office of Chinachem Group and Nina Hospitality Company Limited are located at the complex.
In March 2021, L’hotel Group has been renamed Nina Hospitality to unveil its brand transformation.
The complex contains the head office of Chinachem.
See also
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List of tallest buildings in Hong Kong
Hong Kong has over 9,000 high-rise buildings, of which over 4,000 are skyscrapers standing taller than with 517 buildings above . The tallest building in Hong Kong is the 108-storey International Commerce Centre, which stands and is the 1 ...
References
External links
Official websiteNina Toweron
CTBUH
The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) is an international body in the field of tall buildings and sustainable urban design. A non-profit organization based at the Monroe Building in the city of Chicago, Illinois, United States ...
Skyscraper Center
Emporis
Tsuen Wan
Skyscraper office buildings in Hong Kong
Buildings and structures completed in 2006
Chinachem
Twin towers
Skyscraper hotels in Hong Kong
Shopping centres in Hong Kong
2006 establishments in Hong Kong
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