assuming they get planning permission......

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/south_yorkshire/4264878.stm

It looks wonderful!

http://www.adventurocity.com/images/cn/cnhkg007.php

http://www.watermarkpublications.com/001/html/kow.jpg

:D

Very Park Hill-esque.

I think it looks dreadful. Park hill, Hyde Park, Kelvin Ect

I think its pretty cool - nice one!

Stack 'em high sell 'em cheap, - think of all that lovely council tax ;)

a quote from designers from the BBC article: "densely-packed buildings of a constant height with a clear edge"

sounds awesome :rolleyes:

Oh please, this will look nothing like the pictures cgksheff has posted and you must be very stupid to think it would. Its the concept of a citadel with high density constant height buildings finished with high quality materials that West BAr is trying to recreate - not slums.

Those Kowloon buildings in the pictures arn't a constant height, they're all different height, unless it's an optical illusion caused by the washing drying on the balconies.

I think those pictures look awful... even worse than Park Hill and Kelvin. Hopefully what they are proposing will be better than those pictures!

I posted those pictures (tongue in cheek) to show how pointless the BBC quotes are.

The Walled City of Kowloon did develop into the most densely populated part of a city in the world with a lot of slum accommodation. This what these pictures illustrate and if anyone reads the text accompanying the first picture they will see that the area was demolished in 1993, cleared and replaced with a park.

I also do not think that this is what the architects are thinking of, but then they should be a lot clearer in what they say!

Originally posted by cgksheff
I also do not think that this is what the architects are thinking of, but then they should be a lot clearer in what they say!

I agree, but they were hardly going to say "based on an over populated slum that was demolished"