Jardine House, Hong Kong

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About Jardine House

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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