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Standard Chartered Bank Building

Location: Central, Hong Kong

Model Height: Approximately 70 bricks
Construction period: 11 days (excluding research time)
Scale 1: 265

 

While Standard Chartered Bank Building is not as famous as the other buildings, it is a great companion to the HSBC Main Building ;-)

Standard Chartered Bank Building was the 3rd building that I pick (after HSBC Main Building and Citic Tower) and was one complicate model to build. The building was a flat, stepped pyramid with the narrow sides facing the harbour and Victoria Peak. Each stepped section was a polygon, with the lower sections skewed to one side of the building to maximise the number of harbour-facing windows.

Getting all the edges and proportions right in a narrow width of approximately 8 studs is one big challenge. The entire exterior of the building was done using SNOT technique and composed of tiles and cheese slopes. The difficulty was exacerbated given the limited selection of dark tan parts available.


Designed and assembled in 2014.

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