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Although it is no long the tallest building in Hong Kong, The Bank of China Building perhaps remains Hong Kong's most readily identifiable structure. Completed in 1990, the 70 story building designed by the Chinese-American architect I. M. Pei, is a striking hard-edged asymmetrical structure featuring triangular prisms that create a changing vista as one views it from different sides. It is 369 meters (1210 ft) tall, including the twin spires that give it the appearance, to some anyway, of a preying mantis, the sharp angles violated traditional good feng shui principles and created a major controversy when it was built.
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All images copyright 2000-2001 Professor Robert D. Fiala of Concordia University, Nebraska, USA