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Language	English
Category	English
Level	University
Created / Updated	20.08.2019 / 21.09.2019
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6. Where did the land for modern Hong Kong come from?

Land filled in from the seaside

7. Who built the modern headquarter of the HSBC? What does HSBC stand for?

Norman Foster

8. What principles did the architect want to express? What architectural features express this?

Openness and transparency

9. How did the Bank of China respond? Who built its headquarter? What is he famous for?

With an even taller building

10.Why does the building have bad ‘Feng Shui’?

Sharp angles pointing at other buildings

11. What does the building point at?

Government buildings

12. Where do most of the millionaires live?

Towers, in apartments

13. How does the property developer describe his project?

Gated community of a grand scale

14. How big will BelAir be?

3000

15. How many people live in public housing?

Over half of population

16. What’s the density of people? (By comparison to Paris)

6000 people/hectare (250)

17. How did the living conditions change for the people from the 1920s to today?

Shared rooms and bunk beds to modest apartments

18. What do the Filipino domestic workers do on Sunday?

Meet up for picnic in public spaces

19. Hong Kong is a city going halfway where?

Vertical city of the future

20. What reason does the architect give for the external lighting?

Attract tenants and advertise the building

1.State what reasons there were in the past for making tall buildings?

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Closer to God, be immortal, mark the land

2.What was the tallest building for over 4,000 years?

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Pyramid of Gizeh

3.What was the end of that?

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Eiffel Tower

4.What is the purpose of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai?

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Be the tallest building

5.Where does the story of the skyscraper start?

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Manhattan

6.How did the circus manager P.T. Barnum attract crowds?

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Safety elevator (hoisted platform)

7.Who was his partner at the New York world fair of 1853?

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Elisha Otis

8.What was it they did together?

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Safety catch

9.How did this change the modern city?

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It became possible to make tall buildings

10.How should we see tower blocks?

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Symbols with meaning

11.Why were the twin towers chosen for the terrorist attack?

The tallest, symbol of economic wealth of US

12.What effect did 9/11 have on how we see skyscrapers?

The biggest became vulnerable

13.Where was the first home of the skyscraper?

San Gimignano, Tuscany, Italy

14.How many towers were there originally?

Over 70

15.What is it sometimes called?

Medieval Manhattan

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