
The view tonight from our apartment. Tall buildings going up everywhere. Directly in front of us, a 40-story office building is going up and our "open" view will be no more. Also in front of us but further out toward the left, another massive building is coming up (green scaffolding and 2 giant cranes). We no longer see the distant mountain on the Kowloon side and we'll probably no longer see the fireworks on special occasions. Heck, by the time the buildings are complete, I hope we can see the sky. How sad. I only wish the Hong Kong government had planned to build shorter buildings near the harbor and taller buildings further back. That way more people from more buildings could enjoy the nice skyline from either side of the harbor. It's really just common sense. This recent development of new tall buildings at the edge of the harbor is certainly sad.
Posted by derek at September 30, 2002 01:35 AM