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Jardine House (Chinese: 怡和大廈), formerly known as Connaught Centre (康樂大廈), is an office tower located at 1 Connaught Place, Central, on Hong Kong Island. Owned by Hongkong Land Limited, a subsidiary of Jardines, the building was completed in 1973 and was the tallest building in Hong Kong and Asia at the time. In 1980, the Hopewell Centre surpassed it as the tallest building in Hong Kong.The building is connected by the Central Elevated Walkway to other Hongkong Land properties, such as Exchange Square and the International Finance Centre. Constructed on reclaimed land, the site was leased to Hongkong Land Limited in 1970 for 75 years at a record price of HK$258 million, payable interest-free over 10 years. In return, the government ensured that no buildings would be built to the north of Jardine House to obstruct its views, capping the height of the nearby General Post Office building at 120 feet (37 meters).The construction of the fifty-two-storey building, with an estimated cost of $120 million, took 16 months. It features a metal frame and a curtain wall with round windows, reducing the thickness of the structural frame due to the window design. Metal lettering from the original Jardine House was salvaged and placed in the lobby of the new building.Unusually for a Jardine property, the building's elevators were manufactured by Otis Elevator, with one bank reaching speeds of 1,400 feet per minute (430 m/min) at the time of opening, making them the fastest in Asia. Escalators were supplied by Schindler Elevator, with whom Jardine maintains a partnership in Asia. Schindler later modernized the elevators in the mid-2000s.The building's distinctive circular windows earned it the nickname 'The House of a Thousand Arseholes.'.

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