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It's not beyond the realm of possibility that the developer asked a feng shui guy for advice who made up something along those lines.
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More I would think that it lets a good chunk of wind through so it's not toppling your crappy building.
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Arkanomen posted:More I would think that it lets a good chunk of wind through so it's not toppling your crappy building. Ha ha ha as if anyone cared about that.
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Apr 13, 2016 20:40
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Jerry Cotton posted:Ha ha ha as if anyone cared about that. It's more like a natural selection thing. Only the buildings with holes stand up so by being afraid of dragons on holiday they accidentally fixed a design flaw.
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Apr 13, 2016 20:45
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why would anyone care about something they built after they already got paid for the work? Stupid western companies focusing on things like repeat business instead of getting rich now
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Mozi posted:It's not beyond the realm of possibility that the developer asked a feng shui guy for advice who made up something along those lines. If you're going to throw away ~28 units worth of rent, then there must be a hell of a reason why. I would not be surprised if "dragon accessibility" was it. Arkanomen posted:More I would think that it lets a good chunk of wind through so it's not toppling your crappy building. Has Hong Kong succumbed to mainland building practices yet?
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Apr 13, 2016 20:51
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Blistex posted:If you're going to throw away ~28 units worth of rent, then there must be a hell of a reason why. I would not be surprised if "dragon accessibility" was it.
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Apr 13, 2016 20:55
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Khorne posted:It looks photoshopped. The hole goes right through some of the tenants' windows. remember it was built by a chinese company
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Apr 13, 2016 21:06
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those buildings are real yeah kaohsiung has a cool thing in that vein 
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Modest Mao posted:those buildings are real yeah no they aren't
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Modest Mao posted:those buildings are real yeah Does that transform into a robot
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Fojar38 posted:no they aren't I'm 100% sure I've seen them in person edit: here's someone's lovely travel blog where they took pictures of them http://lisashongkongadventure.blogspot.com/2012/07/happy-4th-of-july-we-have-our-first.html
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Hong Kong does some pretty weird poo poo due to feng shui.
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mrfart posted:
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Fojar38 posted:no they aren't Oh well now I'm convinced.
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Blistex posted:If you're going to throw away ~28 units worth of rent, then there must be a hell of a reason why. I would not be surprised if "dragon accessibility" was it. Half the buildings are made with sea water so they have major cracks and falling apart, does that count?
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Apr 13, 2016 21:17
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JaucheCharly posted:Looks more like the architect was making a goatse reference. 有没有环
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Apr 13, 2016 21:19
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JaucheCharly posted:Looks more like the architect was making a goatse reference. No Why'd.
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Apr 13, 2016 21:20
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Jerry Cotton posted:Oh well now I'm convinced. i am taking a page from the beijing school of persuasion
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mrfart posted:
Seems true. http://apassportaffair.com/2013/06/07/hong-kong/ This is even more riduclous: quote:In the CBC Television series Doc Zone episode "Superstitious Minds", Writer, Researcher & Associate Producer Tom Puchniak asserts that the design of the nearby Bank of China Building ignored feng shui principles, and created instant controversy by evoking two knife edges, one pointing towards the British Government House, another towards the HSBC building. After the Bank of China building opened, a series of mishaps occurred, including the death of the Governor, and a downturn in the city's economy. To defend against the negative energy from the Bank of China building, HSBC installed two concrete cannons on the roof, pointing directly at the Bank of China. According to feng shui master Paul Hung, this solved the problem, and HSBC experienced "no harmful results after that." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSBC_Building_(Hong_Kong)
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when I was in Kenya in 2013 (right after the Westlands mall terrorist attack), China was building their highways/roads left and right and ruffling quite a few feathers... At that time the recently-elected head of the country was trying to avoid appearing before the World Court on charges of genocide. One of my in-laws had just been named Roads Commisioner for Nairobi at the time... his wife had previously fired him from building their own house as quite a bit of the money had disappeared. Note that he has since been removed from office after - surprise! - corruption was uncovered. I'm kind of impressed that in a country where this sort of thing is commonplace, people were actually upset about the Chinese's levels.
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mrfart posted:
Feng Shui
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Yeah Chinese buildings are made with superstitions built in, at least the famous/expensive ones. At the CKS hall in Taipei, I guess one of the opera house/theater buildings had its roof burn, so they rebuilt it with the heads of water dragons on the edges of the roof facing inwards to keep fire from wrecking it again. Or something like that. I used to live right across from it, so I heard that story a few times.
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Blistex posted:
In one way, it looks like rich man hit poor naked guy on bike, but in another vein, it looks like dude just laid down in front of the car. It is a Benz, so 
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st1LL_51ngl3 posted:I'll just leave this here. 88888888
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This post 90's beauty found this white devil to be irresistable! http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c19_1460586690Edit: LL is still encoding it, quality might be worse than normal for a bit. Friend sent me that. He has more, but he says it's a pain in the dick to export them out of Wechat? Dunno, never used it. I could try getting more if there's serious interest. `Nemesis fucked around with this message at 23:46 on Apr 13, 2016 |
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Catnip is one hell of a drug
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mrfart posted:
It's true. Some people say it's for dragons. Others talk about chi flow, because chi flows down from the mountains and out to the sea, it's also why you pay more for a sea view no matter how small and if you have to crane your neck to see it. I suppose the dragon could be a metaphor for chi flow. I don't think anyone here expects to see a real life dragon ever. lovely realtors gonna lovely realtor. Any excuse to drive up the price. And it's like generally accepted to a level where you can use it as a talking point to brag how much better your place is than your friends'. But some people also rally do believe it. The Chinachem heiress got scammed for millions by a feng shui dude. And just like some people really do read their horoscopes in newspapers in the West, feng shui dudes get columns here, so lots of people half-believe it. And hell we were talking just a couple of pages ago about how superstitious a culture can be. Also imagine if the buildings were big slabs with no defining features like holes and outdoor terraces half way up. And Hong Kong is the most vertical city in the world (most floors above 15th) so sunlight may be a factor too, idk. Anyway I teach on the 50th floor of that building in the photo above several times a week. Rent is 8000usd a month for one of the less optimal and smaller flats. A decent apartment there can sell for over a million US. poo poo's crazy money circus. You want to have something good looking for that price, and people think those holes look good I guess. Plenty of architecture worldwide isn't saleable-space-efficient. Fun fact: triangles and sharp edges are not good for chi flow. And if you've seen the Bank of China building in HK, it's a big load of triangles, on what was at one point the tallest building in HK, slap bang between a mountain and the sea. A giant middle finger rising into the sky, from Beijing with love. They relented and built a goldfish pool at the bottom and paid some geomancer to say that'd do the trick. E: see those villas in the bottom right corner? They cost Significantly More. 3 stories, detached, but still overlooked roof terrace so you can't topless sunbathe. I don't even want to guess what one of those would set you back, but I know someone who bought in a waaaay less prestigious area, something similar set him back over 3.5 million USD E2: wow my numbers are way off. Price is three times what I posted above, 2300-2600USD per square foot of floor space* *floor space may or may not include windowsills and your share of the emergency stairwell fire exits simplefish fucked around with this message at 00:20 on Apr 14, 2016 |
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Arkanomen posted:More I would think that it lets a good chunk of wind through so it's not toppling your crappy building. Something something air pressure structural integrity
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pentyne posted:Yeah, there was a surge in army numbers in the BC era , for example at Cannae it was 84k Romans vs 50k Carthaginians where as one of the most famous battles of the pre-gunpowder era had barely 22k combatants total (Agincourt) mostly down to technology and supply chain at the times. Rome was an incredibly efficient orderly empire capable of force projection to the other side of the world (from their perspective) and maintain stable trade and management of the regions they conquered. One does not simply walk into Manchu. Not with 10 thousand men could you do this, it is folly.
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simplefish posted:It's true. Some people say it's for dragons. Others talk about chi flow, because chi flows down from the mountains and out to the sea, it's also why you pay more for a sea view no matter how small and if you have to crane your neck to see it. I suppose the dragon could be a metaphor for chi flow. I don't think anyone here expects to see a real life dragon ever. i thought feng shui was japanese
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Read the headline to this and though wow that sounds really Chinesey http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/david-cameron-says-it-is-unfair-to-criticise-british-controlled-tax-havens-a6982186.html
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I heard those gaps were a fire safety thing to keep a fire from consuming the whole building. They're all around the same floor number by law...?
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No, they do have fire break floors though, usually ones ending in 4, they stick the central air con etc stuff there usually
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mrfart posted:
It's feng shui!
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simplefish posted:No, they do have fire break floors though, usually ones ending in 4, they stick the central air con etc stuff there usually No!! Bad for healthy, will blow ghosts around building..
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naem posted:No!! Bad for healthy, will blow ghosts around building.. and cool water.
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:i thought feng shui was japanese Japanese words cannot end in a consonant other than "n".
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Imperialist Dog posted:Japanese words cannot end in a consonant other than "n". japanese n is also ŋ which is ng as in feng shui  that aside i'm pretty sure it's not a japanese invention
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