Re: Re: DDDA / Docklands Miscellany

Some more competition from around the globe, One East Island in Hong Kong.
I don’t think the Docklands area will ever get this tight! ! !

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cnmark/3088532195/sizes/o/

There are about 70 on. floors there, and they look pretty large too.
The buildings around the commerical one seem to be standard fare East Asian residential.
The same kind that Oscar Newman explored so well in the book Defensible Space, 1972, and marked a real set back to Jane Jacobs desire for higher densities.

You can really see how dark it does get at the street levels. Hong Kong Dept Architecture published this paper:

http://www.sbse.org/awards/docs/2004/Cheng317P.pdf

Brian O’ Hanlon