Connaught Rd and Finance St. Just west of the Star Ferry Pier is the International Finance Centre, a business and shopping complex overlooking the Outer Islands Ferry Piers; the complex’s IFC2 Tower is currently Hong Kong’s tallest structure at 420m high - even higher than the Peak Tram’s upper terminus. Home to the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, IFC2’s 88 floors are so well proportioned that its height is disguised until you consciously measure it against adjacent structures, or see its upper storeys hidden by cloud.

Inland from the International Finance Centre, and accessible by a raised walkway, are the three pastel-pink, marble and glass towers of Hong Kong’s Stock Exchange, sprouting from Swiss architect Remo Riva’s Exchange Square.

The adjacent open piazza has sculptures by Henry Moore and Elizabeth Frink, while the interior is entirely computeroperated: the buildings’ environment is electronically controlled, and the brokers whisk between floors in state-of-the-art talking elevators.