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Cities Without Ground A Hong Kong Guidebook Adam Frampton lonathan D Solomon Clara Wong oRo -F or RaN alph Lerner Cma.i ties Without Ground Adam Frampton,lonathanaan fD~ S~~ olto mon, CPatl ara gWar ong P-_ roj.e ct aL ead:t C~~ yrus laP enarroyojo Aa ssis. tants: Mark Berlinrut, Kenneth lp,Gweny lin, Gigi Lau, Margie Tam, Rebecca Wang, Joey Yim CRC editionsS ORO editions re," is Publishers ofArchitecture, Art, and Design Gordon Goff: Publisherer www.oroedi“oe ti-on—s.-co msom [email protected] Foam amen ARR eg ~C opyright @2018 byORO editions ISBN:978-1 -935955-52-2Z-Z Srd Editionn ™C-o#l or ~S eparati-o"n sons. and Pri* ntia n@ g: O~~ ROme Group LGa td. Printed inChina.i. —T ext printed using offset sheetfed printing process8S/ in4 color on 128gsm premium matt art paper.r. 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Global ReLeaf isAmerican Forests' education and action program that helps individuale, organizations, agencies, and corporations improve the local and global environment byplanting and caring lortrees. Allpapersr used are FSC certified. International Distribution: www.oroeditions.com 2 Contents Ss Ground ........ G Solids ........ 16 Connectivity. ...24 Activity .......30 Guidebook 34 Shun Tak Centre &Sheung Wan..... 36 IFC &Excha nge Sq ua re ... . . . * * * * * . . . . . . . . . . . * . . * * * * . * * * . * . . . * . 58-——- — Centra I 40—_—_— Central I'r1arket 42 Graham Street &Soho.... 44 Admiralty 46 Victoria Pea k 48 Wan Cl lal ee ee ee er ees 50 lLy oes ceksh areetd. (PRteo ad BteM uniehc ipalimaS ervic. es mBonusioltdei ng 5ch2 Causeway Bay 54 Taikoo Shing &Qua rry Bay 56 Cyberport... 5BR B University of Hong Kong 60 Chek Lap Kok Airport 62 Ngong Ping 64 Olympic. 66 West Kowloon.... 68 Tsim Sha Tsui West 70 Tsim Sha Tsui East 72 Hung Hom 74 Temple Street 76 Ir4ong Kok 7B lr/ong Kok East &Bird Street.. 80 Ap Liu Street 82 Kowloon Tong 84 Sai Kung.. 86 Q Ly mM Nn l BB 4aAt Tal fe} Kai Tak 90 Tsuen Wan 92 Sha Tin . 94 Lo Wu &Luo Hu.. 96 Liantang &Heung Yuen Wai 9B A. tmos, phere. 1 A ... 100 F Avsalseeciacs ti Sls See ee 49 Acknowledgements See eee eee OO ROR eee eee ee REE EEE EE EEE 124 Credits TREO HeE Ee E ER R EE EOEEOEHEE eee ...125 — lndex of Public Space inPrivate Developments..... .....126 lndex of ActivitiesSRR HEHEHE DEERE EERE HEHEHE HEE EERE EERE HE .......121 Legend ...128 n ...ffiililIlI== f r ilIIlllll r , t lililffi # _iii -T-*- .\ I t Ground ...To a visitor, iHt ong 1K7 ong appears eW at first confounding19 7in its complexity and seemingly chaotic organization. AA ftst er a ly few weeks, the city gradually reveals itself to be remarkably functional. Distances that seemed vast experientially turn out to be compact geographically. Crowds that appear to teem ambiguously turn out to move with well-choreographed1ed intent. Apparently innumerable buses and trains arrive and depart with such remarkable dependability that you always end up just where you need to be.' an 7 ' Urbanism inHong Kong is a result of a combination of top-down planning and bottom-up solutions, a unique collaboration between pragmatic thinking and comprehensive masterplanning, played out inthree- dimensional space. Footbridge networks throughout the city that grew piecemeal, built by different parties at different times to serve different immediate needs, eventually formed an extensive network and became a prevailing development model for the city's large-scale urban projects. ! 1 Ground is a continuous plane and a stable reference point. ltis the surface on which the conflicts of urban propinquity: public and private, planned and impromptu, privileged and disadvantaged, are worked out. ln cities like New York, great cultural significance is placed in being on the spatial ground, and infrastructural solutions: platforms and tunnels are deployed to keep the ground continuous. ln other places, cultural activity - commerce, entertainment, public program - may continue well above the ground plane. ln Tokyo, Shinjuku station extends an entire district underground; while restaurants and bars fill skyscrapers above the ground. The ground plane remains a reference point for cultural life. Hong Kong enhances three-dimensional connectivity to such a degree that it eliminates reference to the ground altogether. Hong Kong is a city without ground... Opposite:e: *S cale C~ omoarison mrofe Pedestria‘njanC™ irculation NbiworksS| inCities Wdrldwidee Following: Pedestrian Circulation Networks, Street Grids, Maior Tr5in and Ferry Lines, and Land Reclimation inthd Urtian Areas ofHongi Kong 6 r4r flEo — r- -1 Er--r-l E1I#+ AEC Rock‘-*- efeellerrm Center, New York Peacht“reeee | Cente- r, Aautt lanta aa 4 reeetSB = = icAee }s T He e 2 _ Ooa i aaUL hUf s * r iewa d\ Se : People's Park, Shangha‘iai Is f/ oe .,^$- \ " i | t\ a : \ Soi hinjuku Swmat ation.—T okyo‘ ~C~ar~o uselsel"d u Louvre, aPar is --gT-17 1 f,J,- r} -.c 4il +15, Calgary RESO, Montreal ,a)e 6 Central and Wan Chai, Hong Kong 1km \I \l II It tt 1887 Coastline I Current Coastline \ IIIIIIIIII S 68 ,t'I". —~ '. 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