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Enduring Mystery Surrounds a Hong Kong Tower Block

Enduring Mystery Surrounds a Hong Kong Tower Block

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Philip Bowring
Dec 06, 2006
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Hong Kong may have an iconic skyline and a spectacular if rapidly diminishing harbor. But it has torn down enough of its distinguished old buildings to make IM Pei’s externally dramatic Bank of China and Norman Foster’s internally dramatic Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank now its iconic buildings.

But here is another iconic building, one which sums up so much o…

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