Lippo Centre Wan Chai & Northeast Hong Kong Island

Though the HSBC (Hongkong & Shanghai Bank) Building and the Hong Kong International Airport, both by English architect Norman Foster, may be Hong Kong’s best-known examples of modern architecture, the city also features quite a number of fine modern buildings designed by old masters. The Lippo Centre, which evokes koalas hugging a tree, is a pair of office towers designed in the 1980s by American architect Paul Rudolph, who also built Rudolph Hall at the Yale School of Architecture.