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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1988

HONG KONG ACHIEVES SUCCESS IN TALL BUILDINGS

LANDS

HONG KONG'S BIGGEST ACHIEVEMENT HAS BUILT MANY VERY TALL RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS

WORK WELL THEM THE COMMUNITY AND HAS

WORKS, MR GRAHAM SECRETARY FOR (WEDNESDAY).

IN TALL BUILDINGS IS THAT IT

MADE AND

AS

FOR ALL SECTIONS

HOMES, FAMILY BARNES,

OP THE SAID TODAY

HOWEVER, HONG KONG

HAS

NOT YET

SUCCEEDED

IN

MOST OF THEM

SELLING TALL WERE BROUGHT

BUILDINGS TO OLD PEOPLE, PROBABLY BECAUSE 'UP IN LOW BUILDINGS WITHOUT LIFTS, HE SAID.

THAT EVEN OLD PEOPLE MR BARNES SAID IT IS FAIRLY OPTIMISTIC

BECAUSE CAN BE SATISFACTORILY HOUSED IN TALL BUILDINGS IN THE FUTURE

LIVING IN SUCH HONG KONG'S FUTURE OLD WOULD HAVE BEEN ACCUSTOMED TO BUILDINGS.

THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL MR BARNES SAID THESE WHEN HE OPENED CONFERENCE ON TALL BUILDINGS AT THE SHANGRI-LA HOTEL.

HE NOTED THAT THERE WAS NO SOCIAL STIGMA ATTACHED TO LIVING IN HONG KONG.

HIGH-RISE

'WITH VERY FEW EXCEPTIONS MOST OF US LIVE IN HIGH RISE AND THE THE SECURITY RELATIVELY SMALL NUMBER OF FLATS SHARING EACH FLOOR AND

THE VERY TALL ARRANGEMENTS WHICH CAN BE ARRANGED AT GROUND LEVEL IN

MAKE PEOPLE FEEL MORE

MR SECURE, RESIDENTIAL BUILDING

PROBABLY

BARNES SAID.

THAT HONG

HAD KONG NOTED IN ADDITION, HE

A ADVANTAGE OF CASH FREE TELEPHONES TO MAKE LIFE IN LONELY.

HAD THE ALWAYS HIGH FLAT LESS

THE WEIGHTING WHICH SHOULD BE UNDERESTIMATED, HE SAID.

ΤΟ GIVEN

THIS

SHOULD NOT BB

"IN MY VIEW IT IS ONE OF THE MAIN REASONS WHY WE SEEM SUCCEEDED WHERE OTHERS HAVE FAILED," HE SAID.

MR BARNES SAID HE WAS ALWAYS CONCERNED ABOUT THE OF TALL BUILDINGS DURING TIMES OF ENERGY SHORTAGE,

ANOTHER AREA OF CONCERN WAS THE LAW REGARDING OF TALL BUILDINGS, HE SAID.

TO HAVE

VULNERABILITY

THE MAINTENANCE

THAT THE HONG KONG

DESIGN PROFESSIONAL

IS

AND

THE

"AS REGARDS THEIR CONSTRUCTION I BELIEVE

ON BUILDINGS ORDINANCE WITH ITS INSISTENCE OFFICIAL CHECKING OF PLANS AT VARIOUS STAGES OF CONSTRUCTION MINIMUM NECESSARY CONTROL.

"BUT AT