Highcliff and The Summit — Hong Kong
Dennis Lau & Ng Chun Man Architects & Engineers · 2003 · 41D Stubbs Road, Happy Valley, Hong Kong Island
Photo: ParkerStarS / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.5), as published in World Art Utopia.
Side by side on a south slope of Happy Valley on Hong Kong Island, the residential towers Highcliff and The Summit are informally known as ‘The Chopsticks’. Designed by Dennis Lau & Ng Chun Man Architects & Engineers and completed in 2003, Highcliff reaches 828 feet with a 1:20 slenderness ratio, and The Skyscraper Museum’s Sky High exhibition called it the most slender residential skyscraper in the world. Source Source Source Reported
Seen Apr 2013: the newest dated photo we found is a Wikimedia Commons view from a CityBus 97, taken 11 April 2013 and filed as showing Highcliff and The Summit. Source Checked
💡 4 things to know
- The most slender residential skyscraperIn its Sky High exhibition, The Skyscraper Museum called Highcliff, a 72-story tower, the most slender residential skyscraper in the world: 828 feet tall at a 1:20 ratio. Source Checked
- Completed in 2003 on Stubbs RoadDesigned by Dennis Lau & Ng Chun Man Architects & Engineers, Highcliff at 41D Stubbs Road was completed in 2003. Source Checked
- Known as ‘The Chopsticks’Highcliff and the similar nearby tower The Summit are informally called ‘The Chopsticks’. Source Reported
- Built for typhoon windsA passive wind damper at the top, described as the first of its kind for a residential building, helps the tower cope with typhoon winds. Source Reported
📍 Where it is
Highcliff stands at 41D Stubbs Road, Hong Kong Island, with The Summit beside it. Source Reported
Opens a map at the building.
🗓️ Sightings
- 2003
Highcliff completed on Stubbs Road · CTBUH Skyscraper Center
- 2007Jan
Photographed from Black’s Link by ParkerStarS (camera date)
- 200820 Sep
Photo: both towers seen from the Happy Valley clubhouse
- 201311 Apr
Photo: both towers seen from a bus on Morrison Hill Road
Green stamps mark dated photographs; amber stamps mark records, events and reports; red stamps mark loss. Publication dates are not camera dates.
✅ The facts
🔗 Related
- Too Thin to Stand (8 Photos) — World Art Utopia
- CTBUH Skyscraper Center — Highcliff
- The Skyscraper Museum — Sky High: Highcliff
- All Artwork Files
All sources & image credits
- skyscrapercenter.com — 830
- old.skyscraper.org — nw_16.php
- en.wikipedia.org — Highcliff
- oneday.com.hk — high-cliff
- commons.wikimedia.org — File:HK_Highcliff_n_The_Summit_from_Black_s_Link.JPG
- commons.wikimedia.org — File:HK_Stubbs_Road_Highcliff_n_The_Summit.JPG
- commons.wikimedia.org — File:HK_CityBus_97_tour_view_Wan_Chai_Morrison_Hill_Road_view_Happ
- Hero image: Photo: ParkerStarS / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.5), as published in World Art Utopia (WAU media #12259); the share image is a 16:9 version of it (WAU media #12542).
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