hong kong

[Crazy Homeless Guy]

http://www.photomichaelwolf.com/hongkongarchitecture/index.html

[Ernest Burden III]

Wow, that's wonderful.

 

Number 21 is my fave.

 

You think this is someone obsessed with texture?

[Crazy Homeless Guy]

21 is interesting. ...the low down and dirty of the bunch. air conditioners and shirts on each window, the buildings poorly maintained.

 

some of the images show a wire mesh/screen surrounding the buildings. i am not sure if this is a construction, renovation, safety, or asthetic thing.

[IC]

Funny how the night shots look quite nice and the daytime shots are like Hell on Earth.

 

My grandparents moved into a high rise in Central Scotland in the Sixties and everyone thought they were a cutting edge.

Now it's the place no-one wants to live.

[Crazy Homeless Guy]

from what i understand, in hong kong you don't really have a choice. they are land locked, with an enormous population. the vast majority live in high rise buildings.

 

there is a interesting book (maybe a taschen book) that shows photos of apartments in hong kong, and how people utilize the small amount of space efficiently. it is crazy.

[Onslaught]

I have lived and work in Hong Kong for six years. These images brings back a lot of memory.

 

Land is very, very expensive in Hong Kong, thats why almost all constructions are vertical.

 

I lived in a small apartment in Kowloon, so small that when you enter, just take two steps to the left you're in the kitchen, take 8 steps to the right, you're in the living room, from the living room take two steps straight forward, you're in the bedroom.

 

I miss those days.

[Tim Nelson]

I lived in a small apartment in Kowloon, so small that when you enter, just take two steps to the left you're in the kitchen, take 8 steps to the right, you're in the living room, from the living room take two steps straight forward, you're in the bedroom.I miss those days.

 

Reminds me of my first apartment here! I had the bed that comes out from the wall - i forget what those are called.

 

Really those pictures are cool and definitely creates emotion when looking at them. I get the feeling of same-ness & clausterphobia. In other words, very Matrix'y.

[Onslaught]

some of the images show a wire mesh/screen surrounding the buildings. i am not sure if this is a construction, renovation, safety, or asthetic thing.

 

 

They are sfety nets used for construction, behind are bamboo scafoldings (did I spell it right?)

 

 

Check out this website. It's the company I worked for over there.

 

http://www.wongtung.com/

[Jeff Mottle]

Great pictures. I like #33 the best. I think if I lived there I would probably end up throwing myself from one of the balconey's. Then again there is so much space in Canada that we could probably fit the entire world's population here if we took up that kind of high density building. I wonder how many elevators one has to take to get the top floor of one of those...3....4...

 

Reminds me of my first apartment here! I had the bed that comes out from the wall - i forget what those are called.

 

I think they are called Murphey Beds.

[Onslaught]

I wonder how many elevators one has to take to get the top floor of one of those...3....4...

 

You know that some of the older building flats have NO elevators. That's why when you have something delivered to you, the first thing that they're going to ask is if you have an elevator in the building. If not then they hit you with a really hight delivery fee.