Site Challenges
Its construction commenced in 1994, and it was completed in 1998. Significant challenges were posed in the formation of the 21,000 m² site due to its terraced land form as well as its narrow land shape. The tunnels for the Kwun Tong Line of the MTR run through the full length of the site.
During the construction of the building with 4 basement levels, 460,000 m³ of earth had to be shifted.
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Famous quotes containing the words site and/or challenges:
“I am not aware that any man has ever built on the spot which I occupy. Deliver me from a city built on the site of a more ancient city, whose materials are ruins, whose gardens cemeteries. The soil is blanched and accursed there, and before that becomes necessary the earth itself will be destroyed.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)