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While they generate enough of the body's own electricity to power the matrix. Except that the capsules in the movie were probably a little more spacious than these apartments, but we don't want to be too fussy.
Sadly that's humanity. Even suburbia is like that if you zoom out. Same place big the same for everyone. The ones that didn't like that were the noble that made Castle, Reggie and Villas (old money villas) with big fields of nothing just to differentiate them from the rest
My BF was born and raised in HK. We visited an old friend of his that lived in an apartment in a building like this. I couldn't believe how tiny it was!!
I think I found it?
It's got the right colors, and the weird non-straight-line look to it. above the [Mikiki Shopping Mall](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Mikiki/@22.3361826,114.1972572,267a,35y,181.68h,57.15t/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x340406d6b08d252b:0xb045b3a15b55d8e5!8m2!3d22.3336857!4d114.1971604!16s%2Fg%2F155qndz0?entry=ttu). Am I right?
You can get a pretty good street view of it on King Fuk St.
I was actually just there last week. Coincidentally just down the road from the former Kowloon Walled City, AKA formerly the most densely populated place on the planet.
Yes and no. Due to the design, there are pipes and cable ducts that run vertically through all of the apartments. Once the interior of the apartment burns, the fire travels through these ducts to all apartments above. Ceilings and floors are also the same homogeneous and not too thick concrete slab, which very quickly heats up to such an extent that a fire in one apartment will ignite the floor coverings in the apartment above. Another problem can be external insulation of older standards..
There have already been serious fires in this type of construction. All in all, the risk is no lower or higher than in other apartment complexes, but due to the size and the numerous tenants, the consequences are often more serious - not least because more can go wrong during the evacuation. Narrow stairwells, no outside stairs, a huge number of panicked people and a building that is practically a chimney in itself.
The one I lived in Russia that was like this was concrete panels. I watched them build it. There were occasional kitchen fires but they never spread beyond a single apartment.
It’s actually fairly straightforward. The address will be something like “28B, Tower 3, Epic apartments”. The delivery people will just go to Epic apartments, sign in at the security gate, walk to Tower 3, press the lift to 28th floor, walk over to unit B and drop off your stuff. Unless you think that sounds complicated.
It’s just shifting driving time to walking/cycling time, which really works out around the same or even quicker. Because everything is super densely packed together, I can get delivery from around 200-300 restaurants within 20-40 min. McDonald’s is the quickest, I’ve had it delivered around 15min from the time I placed the order.
I live in HK. Here, the average apartment size is below 500 square feet, and a majority of the people I know live within the 300-400 square foot range.
On average, prices now stand at [roughly 13.6k HKD](https://www.midland.com.hk/en/market-insight)per square foot throughout HK. That works out to be 6.8M HKD on average or 868k USD, or 8.6M HKD or roughly 1.1M on the island side.
I was calculating in hkd not usd. Yeah that would be closer to 1m usd.
Judging from the looks of the building it's private housing and not gov housing. Which is still not uncommon to see 10mill hkd.
What’s amazing is that if you live in one of these places in Hong Kong, it’s possible to receive mail even if your street name isn’t on the address. My uncle’s place only needs the complex’s name, block number, floor number, and unit number. That’s it.
I used to live in a 50 storey apartment building, I was only on the 13th floor, but I sure hated walking down all those stairs every time the fire alarm went off. I feel for these people.
This gives me that feeling where, uk, we all live in matchboxes. Like the world is so much bigger than us and we’re just one tiny tiny cog in the machine
there's something seriously unsettling about this and I can't place it. it's just frightening to look at for some reason, just visually not conceptually
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These are the good ones. They actually get a view.
While they generate enough of the body's own electricity to power the matrix. Except that the capsules in the movie were probably a little more spacious than these apartments, but we don't want to be too fussy.
they get to oversee kowloon park and the little turtles
Looks like a honeycomb in a bee colony.
Basically is.
Looks like Judge Dread is the law around them parts
Sadly that's humanity. Even suburbia is like that if you zoom out. Same place big the same for everyone. The ones that didn't like that were the noble that made Castle, Reggie and Villas (old money villas) with big fields of nothing just to differentiate them from the rest
My BF was born and raised in HK. We visited an old friend of his that lived in an apartment in a building like this. I couldn't believe how tiny it was!!
I was thinking they're probably about 400 sq ft
I had an apartment in California for 2.5 years that was 290 sq ft.
And you’ll probably never shut up about it too!
I think I found it? It's got the right colors, and the weird non-straight-line look to it. above the [Mikiki Shopping Mall](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Mikiki/@22.3361826,114.1972572,267a,35y,181.68h,57.15t/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x340406d6b08d252b:0xb045b3a15b55d8e5!8m2!3d22.3336857!4d114.1971604!16s%2Fg%2F155qndz0?entry=ttu). Am I right? You can get a pretty good street view of it on King Fuk St.
King Fuk you say?
It’s fu-uck. But it’s spelled with a PH so it sounds like phu-uck. Phu-uck.
Fuk King what?
I was actually just there last week. Coincidentally just down the road from the former Kowloon Walled City, AKA formerly the most densely populated place on the planet.
All fun and games until a pipe bursts on the 400th floor. Or someone on the 10th floor leaves their stove on.
They're usually built entirely of concrete slabs and are remarkably fire resistant, in terms of spreading. Earthquakes, however...
Yes and no. Due to the design, there are pipes and cable ducts that run vertically through all of the apartments. Once the interior of the apartment burns, the fire travels through these ducts to all apartments above. Ceilings and floors are also the same homogeneous and not too thick concrete slab, which very quickly heats up to such an extent that a fire in one apartment will ignite the floor coverings in the apartment above. Another problem can be external insulation of older standards.. There have already been serious fires in this type of construction. All in all, the risk is no lower or higher than in other apartment complexes, but due to the size and the numerous tenants, the consequences are often more serious - not least because more can go wrong during the evacuation. Narrow stairwells, no outside stairs, a huge number of panicked people and a building that is practically a chimney in itself.
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The one I lived in Russia that was like this was concrete panels. I watched them build it. There were occasional kitchen fires but they never spread beyond a single apartment.
Remember the movie towering inferno?
It took so long for the fire to spread everywhere, that that movie had to have an intermission!
Extremely morbid to think about if a fire broke out in there.
It’s morbid time
I’d hate to be in the community WhatsApp group for that place
Imagine trying to order door dash
It’s actually fairly straightforward. The address will be something like “28B, Tower 3, Epic apartments”. The delivery people will just go to Epic apartments, sign in at the security gate, walk to Tower 3, press the lift to 28th floor, walk over to unit B and drop off your stuff. Unless you think that sounds complicated.
It's not so much complicated as it just takes longer to get in & out
It’s just shifting driving time to walking/cycling time, which really works out around the same or even quicker. Because everything is super densely packed together, I can get delivery from around 200-300 restaurants within 20-40 min. McDonald’s is the quickest, I’ve had it delivered around 15min from the time I placed the order.
No thank you.
Ha, correct. My first thought was “f that NextDoor group”.
That picture would make a great jigsaw puzzle.
And a unit like that goes for around a million dollars, each.
*Multi million. Hong Kong is officially one of the most expensive places to live in.
I live in HK. Here, the average apartment size is below 500 square feet, and a majority of the people I know live within the 300-400 square foot range. On average, prices now stand at [roughly 13.6k HKD](https://www.midland.com.hk/en/market-insight)per square foot throughout HK. That works out to be 6.8M HKD on average or 868k USD, or 8.6M HKD or roughly 1.1M on the island side.
I was calculating in hkd not usd. Yeah that would be closer to 1m usd. Judging from the looks of the building it's private housing and not gov housing. Which is still not uncommon to see 10mill hkd.
No worries - indeed, wouldn’t be surprised if it goes for around that price
Man the sewer system has to be massive! Can you imagine how much doo doo goes through those pipes! At high speed too! Super sonic doo doo
That alone is wild.
It's 5 separate towers built on a common base. 1,446 condos in total with 3.2 people per unit.
I feel anxiety just looking at this.
Same
What’s amazing is that if you live in one of these places in Hong Kong, it’s possible to receive mail even if your street name isn’t on the address. My uncle’s place only needs the complex’s name, block number, floor number, and unit number. That’s it.
‘If you look carefully I’m 66 floors up and 1138th from the left’
r/urbanhell
And they have one weary superintendent.
So that's what hell looks like 🔥
Makes my feet hurt looking at it. How does someone walk out on those balconies and not have a panic attack?
\*wakes up\* My life has meaning and significance! \*walks out on balcony\* Aw shit no it doesn't
bee hive
Imagine needing an apartment leak fixed? Or a light switch goes out…this handy man has got to be super man
I wonder if the price for food delivery distance is not only horizontal but vertical too 😁
I used to live in a 50 storey apartment building, I was only on the 13th floor, but I sure hated walking down all those stairs every time the fire alarm went off. I feel for these people.
Kowloon Walled City may be gone but its spirit is still alive.
#minecraftgoals
All those apartments stacked on top of each other producing income for the owner on that small lot of land... Heh
That’s my house.. tenth row, fifteenth column
I wouldn´t be surprised if there alre at least 20 people dead inside this building with nobody noticing it for at least 2 years
Imagine the wait for the elevator
Grocery day must be awful.
Usually there’s a supermarket downstairs in walking distance, so you’d get fresh groceries every day instead of once a week.
And not even one actually, you always have a few different to choose.
They eat out a lot.
This gives me that feeling where, uk, we all live in matchboxes. Like the world is so much bigger than us and we’re just one tiny tiny cog in the machine
Oh god, I hope they don't have the Nextdoor app. That would be a nightmare.
We don't have that in HK
Imagine the “waste” mass per day. Yes meaning doo doo.
OMG! I have never seen anything like this. I would have trouble trying to breathe…. It’s too over populated. Unbelievable….
Dystopian.
Yay for equality!
But lower floors haven't view!
Equal misery
Wonder if pets are allowed
Absolute unit of an apartment unit.
.... and it's a walk-up.
That's gotta be more than one.
Here on the eleventieth floor we have bowling!
That's a unit alright
cant imagine the stairs going all the way up to the top.
there's something seriously unsettling about this and I can't place it. it's just frightening to look at for some reason, just visually not conceptually
That’s one unit? Damn.
This Dredd?
Attention citizens of Peach Trees...
Hahahaha I had to scroll to see who would make the reference 😂
Battery hens . . . 😶
That’s lots of sex
Damn, the mailman can go crazy looking for my apartment. "You need to go to building J54 and in block 5B go to Floor 67J
I think they will just leave the mail in the mailroom next to the lobby.
Bet it smells
Hopefully the Windows open.
Wonder about roaches.,..
They are like ants
Break me off a piece of that KitKat bar!
Who farted?
Fake