Notable Stale Proposal, Cancelled and Vision Projects
Due to an increasing concerns on potential environmental threads demonstrated by supertall skyscrapers (such as wall effect), numerous height restriction laws are applied to proposed or in some cases, approved projects during recent history. For this reason, many developers are forced to either modify or cancel their projects.
| Name | Height |
Floors | Notes | Refs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bionic Tower | 1,228 / 4,029 | 300 | Vision. Vertical city for housing 100,000+ people. | |
| Kowloon MTR Tower | 574 / 1,883 | 102 | Abandoned proposal. Original proposal for the Union Square development project in Kowloon, and was planned to be the candidate for the tallest building in the world. The project now completed as International Commerce Centre. | |
| Original Nina Tower Proposal | 518 / 1699 | 108 | Abandoned proposal. This is the original proposal for the current Nina Towers to be the world's tallest building in 1994. The proposal was rejected by the government due to being in the major airway of the newly-established Hong Kong International Airport. The proposed tower is literally split in half, with the dominant being the current Nina Tower and the other Teddy Tower. | |
| SAR Government Center | 450 / 1,476 | - | Abandoned proposal. Project is now moved to the Tamar Site as Central Government Complex | |
| The Gateway III | 405 / 1,329 | 96 | Rejected proposal. The project is rejected due to the height restriction law. It is ultimately cancelled and is never built. | |
| Hong Kong Wanchai Tower | 400 / 1,312 | - | Cancelled |
Read more about this topic: List Of Tallest Buildings In Hong Kong
Famous quotes containing the words notable, stale, cancelled, vision and/or projects:
“a notable prince that was called King John;
And he ruled England with main and with might,
For he did great wrong, and maintained little right.”
—Unknown. King John and the Abbot of Canterbury (l. 2–4)
“Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen. On the farm the weather was the great fact, and men’s affairs went on underneath it, as the streams creep under the ice. But in Black Hawk the scene of human life was spread out shrunken and pinched, frozen down to the bare stalk.”
—Willa Cather (1873–1947)
“All the great words, it seemed to Connie, were cancelled for her generation: love, joy, happiness, home, mother, father, husband, all these great, dynamic words were half dead now, and dying from day to day.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“I’ve been cursed for delving into the mysteries of life. Perhaps death is sacred, and I’ve profaned it. Oh, what a wonderful vision it was. I dreamed of being the first to give to the world the secret that God is so jealous of, the formula for life. Think of the power, to create a man. And I did, I did it, I created a man. And who knows, in time I could have trained him to do my will. I could have bred a race, I might even have found the secret of eternal life.”
—William Hurlbut (1883–?)
“One of the things that is most striking about the young generation is that they never talk about their own futures, there are no futures for this generation, not any of them and so naturally they never think of them. It is very striking, they do not live in the present they just live, as well as they can, and they do not plan. It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for a future, none at all.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)