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Architecture: Sir Norman's fantasy of flight There is no coming down to earth when you land at Foster's new Hong Kong airport
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On Sunday at 11.30pm when Kai Tak airport in downtown Hong Kong
closes forever, the 350,000 inhabitants of Kowloon will get their
first good night's sleep since the airport opened 73 years ago.
Overnight, the entire international airline operation will move to
Chek Lap Kok on the nearby island of Lantau. So the next time you
fly to Hong Kong, there will be no need to take a beta-blocker as the
plane noses down between high-rise towers on to a slippery runway
that ends in the South China seas.
From the air, Chek Lap Kok stretches its convex coils like a
gargantuan sea creature sunning itself. ...
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Watches Lose Ground to Cell Phones
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