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Beautiful Group Tower [1972- ]

Date Place completed: 
c.1972-01-01 (Month, Day are approximate)

House built at 74-77 Connaught Road Central. It is an office building with 25 floors that opened 1972.

Emporis gives alternative names:

Guangdong Building
標華豐集團大廈
Permanent Comfort Building

The building is the second one from the left on the photo below.

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Two Chinachem Plaza [1991- ]

Date Place completed: 
c.1991-01-01 (Month, Day are approximate)

House built on the place of 67-68 Connaught Road Central. It is an office building with 26 floors above ground and a height of 110 m.

Main address is 68 Connaught Road Central, Side address is 135 Des Voeux Road Central. It opened in 1991.

It is number 9 in the photo below.

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Chung Hing Commercial Building [1983- ]

Date Place completed: 
c.1983-01-01 (Month, Day are approximate)

Was built on the site of 62-63 Connaught Road Central (and also today’s address),.

It is an office building with 22 floors, it opened in 1983.

It is the number 8 building in the photo below-

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CMA Building [1983- ]

Date Place completed: 
c.1983-01-01 (Month, Day are approximate)

Built on 64-65 Connaught Road Central, the former site of the Building with an "A" on top.

Its full name is "Chinese Manufacturers Association Building", an office building with 27 floors which opened in 1983.

It is number 8 on the photo below.

Building with an “A” on top [c.1966-c.1981]

Date Place completed: 
c.1966-01-01 (Year, Month, Day are approximate)
Date Place demolished: 
c.1981-01-01 (Year, Month, Day are approximate)

Built on the place 64-65 Connaught Road Central. The site was being prepared in 1963, finished probably 1966. 

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Fortune House [1976- ]

Date Place completed: 
c.1976-01-01 (Month, Day are approximate)

House built at 61-61A Connaught Road Central. It is an office building with 22 floors that opened 1976.

It is number 6 in the photo below.

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New York House [1980- ]

Date Place completed: 
c.1980-01-01 (Month, Day are approximate)

House built at 60 Connaught Road Central. It is a office building with 14 floors, and it is very slim!

Opened in 1980. It is number 5 in the photo below.

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84-85 Connaught Road Central [c.1905-c.1933]

Date Place completed: 
c.1905-01-01 (Year, Month, Day are approximate)
Date Place demolished: 
c.1933-01-01 (Year, Month, Day are approximate)

Two houses built on Marine Lot 56. Probably built at the same time as the houses further east on reclaimed land, so 1905 was guessed.

To get an impression about the buildings here is a map together with a photo from around 1930.

Ananda Tower [1978-2008]

Date Place completed: 
c.1978-01-01 (Month, Day are approximate)
Date Place demolished: 
c.2008-01-01 (Month, Day are approximate)

Was built on the place 57-59 Connaught Road Central. It is an office building (with an all in glass front) which opened in 1978.

It is the number 4 building in the photo below.

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Crocodile House 1 [1982-2008]

Date Place completed: 
c.1982-01-01 (Month, Day are approximate)
Date Place demolished: 
c.2008-01-01 (Month, Day are approximate)

House built on the place 51-53 Connaught Road Central. 

An office building that opened 1982. It is the number 2 building on the photo below.

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