Highcliff

22°15′54″N 114°11′3″E / 22.26500°N 114.18417°E / 22.26500; 114.18417Construction started2000Completed2003HeightRoof252.4 m (828.1 ft)Top floor241.8 m (793.3 ft)Technical detailsFloor count73Floor area375,994 sq ft (34,931.0 m²)Design and constructionArchitect(s)Dennis Lau & Ng Chun Man Architects & Engineers (HK) Ltd.Structural engineerMagnusson Klemencic AssociatesReferences^[1]

Highcliff
Traditional Chinese	曉廬
Transcriptions Yue: Cantonese Yale Romanization Híu lòuh Jyutping Hiu2 lou4

Highcliff is a luxury apartment building on a south slope of Happy Valley on Hong Kong Island in Hong Kong. The 75-storey building's construction (70 floors of which are liveable space) began in 2000 and was completed in 2003 under a design by DLN Architects & Engineers. It was the Silver Winner of the 2003 Emporis Skyscraper Award, coming in second to 30 St Mary Axe in London. The tower is the tallest "all"-residential building in Hong Kong island.

Highcliff is thin for such a tall building; it has a slenderness ratio of 1:20 thus being one of the thinnest buildings in the world. Therefore, a passive wind damper was fitted to the top, the first of its kind for a residential building.^[2] This was installed because typhoons approach Hong Kong most late summers.

Because of the obvious similarity with a nearby similar building The Summit, the two have been informally called "The Chopsticks". These two buildings highlight the characters of pencil-thin towers that are highly concentrated in Hong Kong.^[3]

See also

• The Summit
• List of tallest buildings in Hong Kong

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