The glitz and glamour of Harbour City, Hong Kong’s largest shopping centre, belies its sombre past.
In 1983, renowned architect Eric Cumine was sued by the mall’s developer Wharf Holdings, partly for not maximising the total floor area available for development in his design for the mall.
On the building’s facade along Canton Road in Tsim Sha Tsui, the late Cumine left several deep, wide openings on the ground level for better access into the complex. But to a developer, such...
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