What’s in a name?
Posted in Hong Kong life on 09/11/2009 10:14 am by RichardSino Land are working on a new residential development near my office. It’ll be six tightly-packed blocks of 40+ storeys each, with lots of tiny concrete-box apartments per floor. It’s on the edge of Mong Kok and Tai Kok Tsui, which is widely held to be one of the most densely-populated places on the face of the Earth.
And what have they decided to name this habitat? Human-hive? The Sardinecan? Pod City? No, they’ve opted for The Hermitage.
Perhaps it’s not standard apartments at all. Perhaps it’s over 40 floors of bijou columnettes, for the urban Stylite-about-town.
09/11/2009 at 4:55 pm
Start of a new Walled City perhaps?
09/16/2009 at 10:48 am
The Ant Hills at Tai Kok Tsui?
09/16/2009 at 9:05 pm
I like “Pod City”, but “The Ant Hills” is not bad either : D
10/03/2009 at 4:46 pm
HAPPY MID-AUTUMN FESTIVAL!
DON’T FORGET TO HAVE SOME TAIPAN SNOWY MOONCAKES AND LOOK AT THE MOON : )