Category:Black and White
I’m guessing I simply spun around from where I too yesterday’s shot of the Bank of China Tower to get this shot of the Lippo Center Tower 2 – or Bond Center Tower 2 as it was then.
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.
Clearly the boat had seen better days. The windshield and side glass had long since disappeared. I wondered if in fact they had been plexiglass that had turned yellow and opaque. Note also that there is no-one steering up front! As you’ll see in tomorrow’s photo, even this wire and pulley arrangement was no longer in service, the steering mechanism having been superseded again. But despite the engineering modifications, the boat floated and it got the job done.
As I mentioned yesterday, about a month after I took this photo, the restoration order was published in the paper and over the next several years they set about restoring this row of former warehouses and stores into cafes, bars and shops. If you were to look at the same view today, you’d notice many of the rook lines remain the same but there’s a degree more homogenization and cleanliness about the place. No more bushes growing in the gutters.