Glass canopy with glass structure system in Hong Kong Island

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This video is to introduce unbelievable glass structure which is to canopy found in One Island East Office Tower in Hong Kong Island. More detail as following;

Location : One Island East office tower, Taikoo Shing, Hong Kong
Developer : Swire Properties
Architect : Wong & Ouyang

How glass itself can hold this canopy structure is really remarkable. Tried to find any cable support, we haven't found anything. How this hold up to survive from Typoon 8 in HK summer season is truly amazing.

-----------------------------------------about One Island East Building ------------------------------------
The skyscraper is a commercial office building, rising 298.35 m (979 ft) and has 69 storeys plus two levels of basement. There is a sky lobby on the 37th and 38th floors.[4] In addition, there are 28 high-speed passenger lifts, six high-speed shuttle lifts between Main (G - 1/F) and Sky (37 - 38/F) lobbies, one passenger lift between the main lobby and basement car park and two service lifts.[4]

One Island East was built under the first use of the Land (Compulsory Sale for Redevelopment) Ordinance (Cap 545), exercised by Swire in 2000.[5] Part of the site was previously occupied by Melbourne Industrial Building (23-floor industrial building demolished 2005) and Aik San Factory Building (22-floor industrial building demolished 2005)[6] which were acquired by the developer in 2002 and 2001 respectively.[7] The main contractor was Gammon

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