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Prince of Wales Building
Edinburgh Place, Central, Hong Kong City, Hong KongSitting in a prime harbour front location are the pre-handover headquarters of the British garrison, nicknamed the "upside-down gin bottle" because of the narrow base. Not just a weird design feature, its purpose is to reduce damage in the event of an explosion during a terrorist attack. This otherwise architecturally unexceptional building was opened by the Prince of Wales in 1979.
The current occupants, the Chinese Army, have managed to remove the building name that was emblazoned on the structure's western wall. Unfortunately the lettering was so deeply incised that the name is still visible to this day.
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