hkabat-forum-threads HK / Asia - General Discussion

[Cockatoo 2,257]

I think Simfox was doing One Pekin Road at some point. We should put the pressure on him to get that one done, it really is a beautiful building.

[Cockatoo 2,257]

I think Simfox was doing One Pekin Road at some point. We should put the pressure on him to get that one done, it really is a beautiful building.

[Cockatoo 2,257]

I think Simfox was doing One Pekin Road at some point. We should put the pressure on him to get that one done, it really is a beautiful building.

[Odainsaker 2,136]

Oooo, those will all be great!

Gosh, there was a time I could easily spot the head-n-tube Hopewell Centre, but it's getting harder and harder:

Then again, once the sun sets...

There it is!

I'm almost tempted myself to try it, as it's so 1970s!

But really, all these great top-down views of Hong Kong buildings and BATs, perhaps our cities need a viewing platform like the Victoria Peak Tower:

This next image makes me want to add giant googly eyes at the top:

Vertigo already starting...

Omigod!  With glass railing panels shown below...No Way!

[parrotti 11]

great pics, i like these things

[Cockatoo 2,257]

Ha, look at this guys, it's a Korean (?) HKABT exchange.

They've got a fair bit of our stuff up there, but it doesn’t really worry me at all. I mean they've credited us and given the proper translated descriptions and even have our STEX avatars up there.

Some of the uploads require a log-on, but I found some of them you can get into. Check it out.

You can view some of the uploads here.

[kellydale2003 2,276]

You guys are favourited everywhere

[bixel 1,224]

Wow that is cool, I may have to sign in and say hi.

[tankmank 853]

Thats cool , and if you didn't know they have all the HKABT stuff at SimcityChina too but you have to create an account to see it

[SimFox 804]

few views of Tianjin fresh from my last trip (few days old):

[art128 4,622]

Yay, we can buy dogs in the streets ? I never though that oO .. Anyway, excellent photos Simfox ! It looks like you really enjoyed your trip to Tianjin... If I have the opportunity, it sure I'll visit some Chinese cities !

[Rearviewmirror. 3]

Great photos SimFox, wish I could visit some of these places.

[Keegan V50 15]

Thanks for sharing those pics Simfox,Tianjin looks very nice

all the best

victor

[SimFox 804]

yep, guys, about 5 years ago Tianjin had awoken up from a long liturgic existents. These years had changed a city from dirty, dusty backwater just outside of already glittering Beijing into the city that starting to deserve the title 3rd of China. And development is only accelerating. Today along with Chongqing it s most dynamic city in whole of China. And process is only accelerating. No signs of crisis here.

so here second portion of the pictures arond eastern part of Nanjing Lu:

[Ke|is 3,337]

Simfox

Nice Pics

[Rearviewmirror. 3]

Love the photos SimFox.

[bixel 1,224]

Great pics, needs more Chinese women in the photos tho... just saying

[Odainsaker 2,136]

Originally posted by: bixel

Great pics, needs more Chinese women in the photos tho... just sayingquote>

Oh man...

Women's Army Militia on the 60th anniversary parade...totally hot in those snappy red uniforms and even snappier white goose-stepping jackboots!  A bit James Bond with a dollop of Barbarella...even the submachine guns are kinda exciting.  Maybe we need some HKABT hot parade props.

Um, err, Tiananmen urban planning is impressive too.  They are fortunate they only had to goose-step for that short stretch before the offical reviewing stands, or it would have been murder on the legs.

[tankmank 853]

Wow, amazing pictures Simfox

[SimFox 804]

Incidentally width of TianAnMen is about equal (actually some what greater) than length of Red Square.... :-)

At any rate it was very very impressive. Enormous screens (as tall as 7-8 story buildings) were erected on the square. For a month after the event all day, every day parade on these giants... Seeing 20m tall Comrade Hu and Zhao standing waving over busy traffic passing under them - buses as ants... very surrealistic feeling. Bizarre mixture of something one expects from North Korea mixed with 1st world prosperity of Beijing...

[Odainsaker 2,136]

A 20m tall Comrade Hu waving down to the bus traffic...must have been bizarre cool indeed!  Of course, no one quite does it quite like North Korea, such as here on their 60th anniversary:

Now that is organizing the Asian skyline as choreographed perspective at the video's 12-second mark.  I almost expected the rather terrifying torchlight orgy at the end to actually culminate with the warhead-tipped launching of the Juche Tower!

I'm going to have to change how I lay out TheQuiltedLlama's lofty BAT of that thing.

I must admit, though, for all the heroic superconstructions of the new prosperity, I'm really a sucker for the grossly romanticised and picturesque mishmash:

[SimFox 804]

Speaking about on-screen giants:

the screens are, as you can see are enormous and of incredibly high quality and resolution.

And here are couple of shots of yours truly:

with big daddy :-)

and boyz in their toyz

All that in a scenic Beijing:

under piercing blue skies:

[bixel 1,224]

OMG Odainsaker... but really, can 1000 Chinese women conquer the Bixel? It might be possible.... especially in those boots and skirts.

[Skyfire2275 23]

Hey guys. I'm still alive, I just have no time for computer games... as you can tell it has been more than 2 years since I logged on. Doing a Ph.D. in Physics. Not sure why I logged on right now to tell you the truth... Anyways, leave my thread locked as you have done. Good call on that. I'm not planning on a return, not even sure if I will read the follow ups to this or not. Maybe. Hope all is well. And keep up the good work!

[bixel 1,224]

Skyfire2275!!! Come back man I love you!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[tankmank 853]

I think some one should BAT those screens and with Premier Wen Jiabao on them as that would be the ultimate 60th  anniversary for Nanzhao (previosly Toright)

[loken rocks 0]

The tallest building in Hong Kong

[mightygoose 92]

dang thanks for stopping by sakyfire in other news has anyone got the nina tower on the cards?

[Duke of York 23]

 Here is a neat video of Comrade Hu doing a Military inspection.

               

Here is something you do not see often...Russian Orthodox Church now a Museum in Harbin ...

-DOY

                     

[SimFox 804]

The comrade is actually Hu, not Jin Tao. In China Family name precedes first name.

And as Russian Churches go... there are quite few of them in China. And as bizarreness of the current use goes I'd put first one of the Russian Churches in Shanghai - it houses a gay disco nowadays...