Sunning Plaza () was a 30-storey office building in

Causeway Bay Causeway Bay is list of buildings, sites and areas in Hong Kong, an area and Victoria Park, Hong Kong, a bay on Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, straddling the border of the Eastern District, Hong Kong, Eastern and the Wan Chai District, Wan Chai ...

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 ...

. This and the adjacent 19-storey residential building Sunning Court () were the first of only two projects in Hong Kong of Chinese-American architect

I. M. Pei Ieoh Ming Pei
– website of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners ( ; ; April 26, 1917 – May 16, 2019) was ...

, the other one being the Bank of China Tower. They were located in the area bounded by Hysan Avenue, Sunning Road and Hoi Ping Road. The two buildings were completed in 1982, and Sunning Court was renovated in 2003. There was a large open space around the buildings, creating an "urban oasis" for the dense Causeway Bay area. A scene of

John Woo John Woo Yu-Sen SBS (; born September 22, 1946) is a Hong Kong filmmaker, known as a highly-influential figure in the action film genre. He was a pioneer of heroic bloodshed films (a crime action film genre involving Chinese triads) and the gun fu ...

's movie ''

A Better Tomorrow ''A Better Tomorrow'' () is a 1986 Hong Kong crime action film directed and co-written by John Woo, and starring Ti Lung, Leslie Cheung and Chow Yun-fat. The film had a profound influence on Hong Kong action cinema, and has been recognised a ...

'' was filmed at the space before the entrance of Sunning Plaza. Although the buildings were relatively young, the landlord

Hysan Development Hysan Development Company Limited is a Hong Kong property investment, management and development company that is listed on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong. The company was formed in Hong Kong in 1923, when businessman Lee Hysan acquired plots of ...

announced its plan to redevelop the two buildings into a bigger retail and office complex in 2013, and the demolition started late the same year. The company has a history of tearing down young building. Hennessy Centre, completed in 1981 and owned by the same company, was torn down in 2006 for development of

Hysan Place Hysan Place () is a shopping centre and office building at 500 Hennessy Road, Lee Garden, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong. It was developed by Hysan Development Company Limited at the former site of and was designed by international architecture fir ...

. I. M. Pei once told Hong Kong architect Raymond Fung Wing-kee in 1992 that Hong Kong developers like to commission him to design, but do not quite like his design.

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{{I. M. Pei, state=collapsed Causeway Bay Former buildings and structures in Hong Kong I. M. Pei buildings Office buildings completed in 1982 Wan Chai District Buildings and structures demolished in 2013 Former skyscrapers Demolished buildings and structures in Hong Kong