Images of Hong Kong ‘living cubicles’ - Polidicks

[url]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2306842/Stunning-images-Hong-Kong-living-cubicles-look-just-like-Borg-cubes.html[/url] [QUOTE]These mind-boggling images capture the scale of soaring apartment blocks in one of the world's most densely populated areas; Hong Kong. As home to a population of more than seven million crammed into an area measuring just 424 square miles, space in Hong Kong is at a premium. It means that, when it comes to providing accommodation for Hong Kong's huge population, the only way to go is up.[/QUOTE]

[img]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/04/10/article-2306842-19377F79000005DC-441_964x1110.jpg[/img] [b]MY EYES.[/b]

I want to see what they look like on the inside

Dear god, I hope they take fire safety to the max.

OCD [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/Gg41Jpm.jpg[/IMG]

Damn their elevators better never be out of order.

[img]http://puu.sh/2xIuM[/img]

[QUOTE=LunchboxOfDoom;40237434][img]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/04/10/article-2306842-19377F79000005DC-441_964x1110.jpg[/img] [b]MY EYES.[/b][/QUOTE]It's like they just ctrl+c ctrl+v'd the entire building.

I'm reminded of [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon_Walled_City"]this.[/URL] They did knock that down, but it seems Hong Kong still wants to cramp things in.

[QUOTE=DanTehMan;40237472]I want to see what they look like on the inside[/QUOTE] Imagine a normal flat, but remove a few square meters. I've been to an apartment similar to the one in the picture, but a bit more "decent". Their living room was about 50% the size of my bedroom here in Sweden.

Anybody find Waldo yet?

They're more like coffins than cubicles.

[QUOTE=jaykray;40237508]OCD [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/Gg41Jpm.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE] That must be room 1408.

[IMG]http://www.cyberpunkreview.com/images/matrix02.jpg[/IMG] Except more primitive.

Maybe this is just me but I think it looks cool as shit. If it's half-decent on the inside I wouldn't mind living there I think, but I can only assume that's not the case...

Jesus, Hopefully that thing doesn't catch on fire or anything.

[QUOTE=jaykray;40237508]OCD [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/Gg41Jpm.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE] Don't worry, the room opposite of that is also missing a window. So it's symmetrical.

[IMG]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/04/10/article-2306842-19377F61000005DC-876_964x761.jpg[/IMG] I find this picture particularly fascinating. A dense city with skyscrapers sticking up... on a backdrop of even bigger skyscrapers

Interior shots of a few apartments, courtesy of [URL="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/02/shocking-photos-of-cramped-hong-kong-apartments/"]ABC[/URL] [IMG]http://a.abcnews.go.com/images/International/rex_03_a_cramped_hong_kong_nt_13027_blog.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://a.abcnews.go.com/images/International/rex_05_cramped_hong_kong_nt_13027_blog.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://a.abcnews.go.com/images/International/rex_02_cramped_hong_kong_nt_13027_blog.jpg[/IMG]

They look like they could fall any second now, feels bad for the ones living there, must be both pretty shitty and scary.

[QUOTE=DanTehMan;40237472]I want to see what they look like on the inside[/QUOTE] [url]http://www.fubiz.net/2013/03/06/hong-kong-apartments-from-above/[/url] [img]http://www.fubiz.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Hong-Kong-Apartments-from-Above5.jpg[/img] fucking ninjad

[QUOTE=Led Zeppelin;40237749]Interior shots of a few apartments, courtesy of [/QUOTE] nope nope nope

Reminds me so much of the giant stacks in Dredd (2012). If only these had an enormous hollow core, that'd be so cool to look down.

[QUOTE=Im Crimson;40237743][IMG]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/04/10/article-2306842-19377F61000005DC-876_964x761.jpg[/IMG] I find this picture particularly fascinating. A dense city with skyscrapers sticking up... on a backdrop of even bigger skyscrapers[/QUOTE] Yeah that was my favourite too.

[QUOTE=Im Crimson;40237743][IMG]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/04/10/article-2306842-19377F61000005DC-876_964x761.jpg[/IMG] I find this picture particularly fascinating. A dense city with skyscrapers sticking up... on a backdrop of even bigger skyscrapers[/QUOTE] This looks like a miniature city, the whole background being covered in taller buildings make me think of that... or maybe just the perspective.

[QUOTE=jaykray;40237508]OCD [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/Gg41Jpm.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE] But it's symmetrical

Those images are Gurskyesque. I really want to visit Hong Kong. It seems to be a paradise for photographers.

[QUOTE=Led Zeppelin;40237749]Interior shots of a few apartments, courtesy of [URL="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/02/shocking-photos-of-cramped-hong-kong-apartments/"]ABC[/URL] [IMG]http://a.abcnews.go.com/images/International/rex_03_a_cramped_hong_kong_nt_13027_blog.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://a.abcnews.go.com/images/International/rex_05_cramped_hong_kong_nt_13027_blog.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://a.abcnews.go.com/images/International/rex_02_cramped_hong_kong_nt_13027_blog.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE] Looks like a nightmare for people with claustrophobia.

[QUOTE=DoctorSalt;40237833]Reminds me so much of the giant stacks in Dredd (2012). If only these had an enormous hollow core, that'd be so cool to look down.[/QUOTE] I bet ya the Walled City probably inspired the complex in Dredd.

Well, not everyone can have a fancy big house and this is the best way of providing many people with houses on a small area.