Building Structure and Housing
Chungking Mansions is 17 stories tall and consists of five blocks, A, B, C, D and E.
There are two lifts in each block, one of which serves even-numbered floors, the other one odd-numbered floors. A CCTV camera system exists at the ground floor level for each of the lift cars.
The first two floors are however common space where you can wander around under the blocks, the third floor is actually a terrace level between the blocks where the tower blocks rise out of the base of the building and all floors above this are accessible only by the stairways and lifts contained in each block.
The separate mall a few metres to the north of the main entrance however protrudes into the 3rd floor of block A and B.
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