Comments by "May L" (@MeiinUK) on "Europe’s New Skyscraper Capital Isn’t Where You Think" video.

  1.  @joshi1863  : With HK, it's different because, the British government didn't own the rest of the land, and even then, there were boundary issues. So they were forced to build in a tiny spot, and that is why they seems to be so much closer together than it ought to be? The saving grace is that, is it in a hot climate, so... you would always have AC and nice weather outside. But the thing to be aware of, is the draft, extremely strong ones, as you walk past some of the buildings near the HK Island side as well. I think the buildings built in the 1990s, were done well.. and genuinely were great engineering. (I take it, those days were kind of pre-computer era as well. Or maybe they did have some, but not without recalculations and human calibration adjustments.) Cos the subsequent ones that were built, were badly made, and they dotted across the entire city. Those ones were the ones whereby the windows were blown out during a typical typhoon, but the HK Island side ones have strong windows. You can tell those earlier materials were so strong, and that quality was a thing too. Nothing was scrimped. The subsequent typhoons have blown and shattered so many windows in HK after that. Toilets had water sprouting upwards as well, and things like that. Really terrible.
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