Category:Architecture
I turned my camera horizontal once more and took a wider shot of the east face of the Bank of China Tower. Even back in 1989 my predominant shooting style was run-and-gun.
I must have wandered south along Cotton Tree drive and crossed over Queensway since my next photos were of the Bank of China Tower. The image below was taken from pretty close to the north-east corner of the tower. Not as foggy as the day before, it was still a cloudy day and if you look closely you can see the clouds just brushing the top of the tower. The cloud cover has given the almost white sky. This iconic […]
Today’s photo is of the Lippo Center and Admiralty Center Tower – Lippo Center Tower 2, to be precise – on Hong Kong island.
At some point I took a ferry from Kowloon to Hong Kong island to wander among the high-rises near the waterfront and found myself in Exchange Square.
Clearly the laundry-pole-out-the-window is a local cultural thing. I wonder what happens if you lose a garment? On a street like Pagoda Street you could probably find it in the street but if it comes off one of those poles from Block 335B, it could almost end up anywhere!
While there I took this photo from the floor my room was on, down to the lobby area on the ground floor. The plants were all real. It’s interesting how the further away from the glass roof of the atrium the concrete takes on a green hue from all the plants.