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To me as an urban planner, Union Square (as it's formally known) is a spectacle of ultra high density mixed use development. This development is built over the Kowloon MTR Station and sits on 13 hectares of land reclaimed from Victoria Harbour. A high end shopping mall, Elements, occupies well over a million square feet above the train/MTR station. The roof of the mall is used as a quasi public plaza and as access to the multiple towers on site. There are over 8,000 housing units here, as well as the 118 storey Intrenational Commerce Centre and W Hotel.
Housing prices are shocking. At the "Harbourside", the 75 storey blue tower second from left for example, a lower floor 743 square foot two bedroom apartments was listed at $21 million HKD ($3.4 million Canadian/ $2.7 million USD )in December 2017 .
When I first visited this development in 2008, it seemed completely isolated from the city and was not at all a friendly place to get to as a pedestrian. In 2017, it's in the middle of a sea of cranes and new buildings.
In future, there will likely be better connectivity, as more massive development, the West Kowloon Cultural District, is currently taking place on 40 hectares of land adjacent to Elements/Union Square.
Skyscrapers in New York
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King St, Sydney, early one Saturday morning after clearing rain. Shot from the footpath with a Canon TS-E 24mm f3.5L Tilt+Shift lens, with Tilt engaged, Hoya ND x400 filter, Lee 0.9 Hard Grad ND filter, manual focus. Cropped in half.
Exhibited at AddOn, Sydney, May 2013.
Perhaps I thought I might have violated someone's privacy. But It was noticed that even I difficult to identify them.
May 11, 2015, at Roppongi Hills Mori Tower.
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ひょっとしたらぼくは誰かのプライバシーを侵害したかもしれないと思いましたが、ぼくですらこれを識別することが難しいと気がつきました。
2015年5月11日、六本木ヒルズ森タワーにて。
A beautiful winter day, with premonitions of spring, took us to Hastings on the Sussex coast yesterday. Its a characterful, salty, seaside town.
It is also a working port, with its its fleet of fishing boats being drawn up on the shingle beach around a colony of extraordinary elongated fishing huts. I've never seen anything quite like them
Another irresistible capture while passing through Boston. The combination of line, light and angles was eye-riveting!