Jardine House

Hong Kong


This 52-storey silver monolith punctured by 1750 porthole-like windows was Hong Kong’s first true ‘skyscraper’ when it opened in 1973. Inevitably the building has earned its own irreverent nickname: the ‘House of 1000 Arseholes’.


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