The Bank of America Tower is a 38-floor
skyscraper
A skyscraper is a tall continuously habitable building having multiple floors. Most modern sources define skyscrapers as being at least or in height, though there is no universally accepted definition, other than being very tall high-rise bui ...
located at 13-15
Harcourt Road in the
Admiralty area of
Hong Kong Island
Hong Kong Island () is an island in the southern part of Hong Kong. The island, known originally and on road signs simply as "Hong Kong", had a population of 1,289,500 and a population density of , . It is the second largest island in Hong Kon ...
. The first floor is rented for retail and catering businesses. The third and fourth floors are for car parking, while offices start from the fifth floor up. Each floor provides 13,880 square feet for rent, with the smallest unit starting from 800 square feet.
The Bank of America Tower participates in
A Symphony of Lights.
History
In the 1970s,
Gammon Construction redeveloped the
Victoria Barracks. At the same year,
Hongkong Land
Hongkong Land (HKL) is a property investment, management and development group with commercial and residential property interests across Asia. It owns and manages some 850,000 sq. m. of office and retail property in Asia, principally in Hong K ...
acquired
Gammon Construction. It was completed at 1975.
In the 1980s,
HSBC
HSBC Holdings plc ( zh, t_hk=滙豐; initialism from its founding member The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation) is a British universal bank and financial services group headquartered in London, England, with historical and business li ...
set up a vault on the ground floor of the building before the
HSBC Building was completed. In the same year, it was renamed as Carrian House after a HKD$998 million purchase by the
Carrian Group. Within two years, the property price plummeted due to
political uncertainty, and the purchase was seen as a "fraud," with
Carrian Group being liquidated by the court. The case was resolved in the
Supreme Court
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in 1997.
It was sold in layers, and purchased and renamed by
Bank of America
The Bank of America Corporation (Bank of America) (often abbreviated BofA or BoA) is an American multinational investment banking, investment bank and financial services holding company headquartered at the Bank of America Corporate Center in ...
. In the early 2000s, Bank of America's Hong Kong office moved its operations to
Hong Kong International Finance Centre Tower 2 and retaining only the naming rights and external advertising rights of Bank of America.
See also
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List of tallest buildings in Hong Kong
Hong Kong has over 9,000 Tower block, high-rise buildings, of which over 4,000 are skyscrapers standing taller than with 564 buildings above as of 2025, according to the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat. The tallest building in H ...
References
External links
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Emporis was acquired ...
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Admiralty, Hong Kong
Bank of America buildings
Office buildings completed in 1975
Skyscraper office buildings in Hong Kong
1975 establishments in Hong Kong
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