Flying into Hong Kong

Great photos, Gord. I had the opportunity to briefly explore Hong Kong earlier this year during an eight hour layover en route back to Vancouver from a work trip to South Africa.

In your second photo there is a large cluster of buildings surrounding a super-tall office building. (I’ve circled the cluster in your photo: http://i.imgur.com/MLlniVG.jpg). That is the MTR transit company’s Kowloon Station Development; the largest TOD of which I know. (http://www.mtr.com.hk/eng/properties/prop_dev_kowloon.html) MTR Properties, MTR’s real estate development arm, leads a consortium that is building the 1 million square metre (~10,000,000 sq.ft.) project, which upon full build-out will include 16 residential towers with 5,800 units, 2 hotel-residential towers with more than 600 residential units, a 118-storey office building with 231,000 square metres of office space (~2,300,000 sq.ft), and an 82,750 square metre (~820,750 sq.ft) shopping mall operated by MTR Malls. All of this is directly above the Kowloon Station of the MTR Hong Kong Airport Express train and immediately adjacent to the under-construction Hong Kong terminus station of the new Guangzhou–Shenzhen–Hong Kong high speed rail line that will begin service to Hong Kong in 2017. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangzhou%E2%80%93Shenzhen%E2%80%93Hong_Kong_Express_Rail_Link)