Extruded City
To see into the heart of present-day Hong Kong’s aesthetics, a flight ticket and a window seat might be essentials. Only as the plane banks above the city are curious passengers given a top-down glimpse of one of the world’s most spectacular urban fabrics: concrete mega-structures set against a peninsula, lush islands and the waters of the South China Sea. This contrast becomes even more striking when the aerial impression of spaciousness is met with the extreme density of the city’s interior. This extraordinary yet everyday reality for Hongkongers has its origins in something as prosaic
