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Author: Ohconfucius
Jardine House is one of the first major skyscrapers in Hong Kong. Located at 1 Connaught Place, it is the headquarters of the Jardine Matheson Holdings, a multinational company incorporated in Bermuda and based in Hong Kong. It is owned by Hong Kong Land, one of the many subsidiaries of Jardines.
Jardine House was completed in 1972, and stood as the tallest building in Hong Kong until the completion of Hopewell Centre in 1980. The building, which stands on reclaimed land, is 52 storeys tall, and measures 585.6 feet (178.5 meters) to the roof top.
The most distinctive feature of Jardine House are its pothole-shaped windows. It was originally finished with tiles, but these were replaced with aluminium after it appears that the tiles kept falling off.
Jardine House was prominently used in the 1988 NBC miniseries Noble House. The history of Jardine House is also the history of Hong Kong, and particularly its early Tai-Pans, or Western business leaders in China.
Jardine Matheson Holdings traces its roots back to 1 July 1832, when merchants William Jardine and James Matheson founded the Jardine, Matheson & Co. They exported Chinese tea and silk to England, and opium to China. When China tried to ban the opium trade, they lobbied the British to compelo China to compensate for confiscated goods, and that led to the two Opium Wars.
Dear visitor, thank you so much for reading this page. My name is Timothy Tye and my hobby is to find out about places, write about them and share the information with you on this website. I have been writing this site since 5 January 2003. Originally (from 2003 until 2009, the site was called AsiaExplorers. I changed the name to Penang Travel Tips in 2009, even though I describe more than just Penang but everywhere I go (I often need to tell people that "Penang Travel Tips" is not just information about Penang, but information written in Penang), especially places in Malaysia and Singapore, and in all the years since 2003, I have described over 20,000 places.
While I try my best to provide you information as accurate as I can get it to be, I do apologize for any errors and for outdated information which I am unaware. Nevertheless, I hope that what I have described here will be useful to you.
Author: Ohconfucius
Jardine House is one of the first major skyscrapers in Hong Kong. Located at 1 Connaught Place, it is the headquarters of the Jardine Matheson Holdings, a multinational company incorporated in Bermuda and based in Hong Kong. It is owned by Hong Kong Land, one of the many subsidiaries of Jardines.
Jardine House was completed in 1972, and stood as the tallest building in Hong Kong until the completion of Hopewell Centre in 1980. The building, which stands on reclaimed land, is 52 storeys tall, and measures 585.6 feet (178.5 meters) to the roof top.
The most distinctive feature of Jardine House are its pothole-shaped windows. It was originally finished with tiles, but these were replaced with aluminium after it appears that the tiles kept falling off.
Jardine House was prominently used in the 1988 NBC miniseries Noble House. The history of Jardine House is also the history of Hong Kong, and particularly its early Tai-Pans, or Western business leaders in China.
Jardine Matheson Holdings traces its roots back to 1 July 1832, when merchants William Jardine and James Matheson founded the Jardine, Matheson & Co. They exported Chinese tea and silk to England, and opium to China. When China tried to ban the opium trade, they lobbied the British to compelo China to compensate for confiscated goods, and that led to the two Opium Wars.
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Dear visitor, thank you so much for reading this page. My name is Timothy Tye and my hobby is to find out about places, write about them and share the information with you on this website. I have been writing this site since 5 January 2003. Originally (from 2003 until 2009, the site was called AsiaExplorers. I changed the name to Penang Travel Tips in 2009, even though I describe more than just Penang but everywhere I go (I often need to tell people that "Penang Travel Tips" is not just information about Penang, but information written in Penang), especially places in Malaysia and Singapore, and in all the years since 2003, I have described over 20,000 places.
While I try my best to provide you information as accurate as I can get it to be, I do apologize for any errors and for outdated information which I am unaware. Nevertheless, I hope that what I have described here will be useful to you.
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