kai tak - a wasted planning opportunity
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Soon the Kowloon Central Route highway will be gazetted. The images show what a disaster the road engineers are creating for Kai Tak. The channel in Kai Tak has the same proportions as Marina Bay in Singapore and Darling Harbour in Sydney. See for yourself how Hong Kong is wasting a world class opportunity..TRANSCRIPT
Kai Tak
Let this not be a wasted opportunity
May 2013
The promise
Open spaces
10km Promenade
Long and empty promenade
Far from hom
e
20haResidential neighbourhoods are segregated from the leisure, recreation and sports activities
along the approach channel by roads, flyovers and amenity areas.
Jungle of roads
Excited about Kai Tak?
Central Kowloon Route
Air vent shafts
Utilities
Kai Tak TunnelUtilities
Roads
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Worried about Kai Tak?
I’m very worried about Kai Tak..
It’s a planning disaster!!!
Compare DarlingHarbourinSydneywith Kai Tak
Roads run behind the waterfront properties, or well above it
Sydney,DarlingHarbourcombinesfunwithroads
Sydney, Darling Harbour under the flyovers
Roads run behind the waterfront properties
Compare Marina BayinSingaporewithKai Tak
Marina BaySingapore
Singapore, Marina Bay
Fight for a better home• The planning of Kai Tak is a disaster.
• Where Singapore and Sydney have used similar water bodies to create world class destinations we excel in creating nothing out of our 10km waterfront.
• One of the problems is the Central Kowloon Route. It will be gazetted soon and unfortunately we will all have to object.
• We can’t let the road engineers destroy Kai Tak in the same way they have destroyed the Kowloon West Reclamation.
• www.designinghongkong.com