Feng Shui: The Cleaver Building and the Koala Towers : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Feng Shui: The Cleaver Building and the Koala Towers / Can Pac Swire
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示-継承 2.1 |
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| 説明 | Feng = windShui = waterFeng Shui (also Fung Shui) is some sort of geomancy. Refer to here also: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feng_shuiBoth of these Hong Kong office towers have a story behind them.On the left is the Bank of China Tower. Designed by I.M. Pei and completed in 1989. With 70 storeys above ground, it was meant to make the neighbouring HSBC Building (47 storeys) look small. It was China's plan to show the world that Britain's control over Hong Kong were numbered, and a new super power was taking over. Alas! Hong Kong people are well known for their superstition. The Bank of China is triangular in shape and looks like a huge butcher's knife (cleaver) stuck right in Hong Kong's financial heart. The X-shaped (a symbol of the death sentence in ancient China) structural design was also much sneered at when it was unveiled. During the 1990s, many thought this building brought back luck to all of Hong Kong.On the right side are a twin-tower complex known as the Bond Centre when built (1987) and developed by former Australian tycoon Alan Bond. The multi-faceted towers are said to resemble Australia's tree-hugging koala bears. But Alan Bond was later convicted of fraud and sentenced to jail in Australia. He went bankrupt and his landmark Bond Centre complex in Hong Kong was sold to an Indonesian conglomerate and renamed Lippo Centre. It remains one of the Hong Kong's most impressive buildings despite its relative shortness (44 and 48 floors respectively). |
| 撮影日 | 2002-09-01 00:00:00 |
| 撮影者 | Can Pac Swire , Toronto, Canada |
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| 撮影地 | 香港, 港島, 香港 地図 |
| カメラ | CanoScan LiDE 700F , Canon |