Hong Kong Nights

Hong Kong at night as seen from Victoria Peak – 1973. Most interesting here is how this contrasts the unbelievable changes that have taken place in the last 40 years. On the far side of the harbor is Kowloon. On the near side of harbor in Hong Kong City to the right is a conspicuously tall waterfront skyscraper … this was the Connaught Center later to be renamed the Jardine House. At 50 stories and over 500 feet it was the tallest building in all of Asia in 1973. Today the Jardine House is lost among much larger buildings some of which are two and three times taller. Today (2011) Jardine House does not even make the top 100 tallest building list for Hong Kong.