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Hong Kong is one of the financial centers of the World. In the city is a lot of money, and this money is often spent for modernization of this small state. For example, for constructing new marina which after opening becomes the main "watergates" of Hong Kong. Will construct this smart station the most famous modern architect — Norman Foster.

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More than ten years has passed since moment as has been closed a Hong Kong International Airport. Long time on a territory was empty. But the mother nature abhors a vacuum. Especially, in Hong Kong where the habitation territories is the most populated in the World.

Recently, on a place of the former airport has begun building project of a new marina, the author of the architectural project is architectural company «Foster + Partners».

This marina will be intended first of all for service of tourist passenger liners. After the building will be finished, into the seaport can arrive at once two huge ocean liners. Thus, the sea terminal can serve simultaneously for ten thousand persons. Here will work about eight hundred persons.

The new architectural project will be as much as possible harmless. The basic part of day illumination will be natural, instead of artificial. And on a terminal roof the park will settle down, where passengers can perfectly spend time in expectation of the sea cruises, instead of pining in the usual closed waiting room as in other sea ports. Besides, will be used a eco systems of gathering and clearing of rain water for needs of a complex, and also reception of the electric power from renewed sources (solar batteries).

Cost of building of this marina will cost for the budget of Hong Kong — 460 million dollars. The solemn opening are planned to 2013.

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The new airport concept should be consolidated with surrounding city context. Architectonic bureau Aedas has made it a basis of the conceptual project.

The airport becomes a part of a city landscape

WKT Airport will serve the passengers who have arrived both to Hong Kong, and to China thus it's unusual enough to the traditional international airports which are usually being the property of one country.

The construction place is on border of the West Kowloon Cultural District, near to Victoria Harbour. The design of a building is completely identical to city structure.

In an airport complex there will be 400,000 sq.m. of the commercial areas, they will be placed over station.

The project height — 45 metres, a building is benched, opening a sort on the Hong Kong sky. The station building becomes as though an amphitheatre, where representation — the city opening on opposite river bank. Arena here — set of the pedestrian paths transformed into the blossoming garden.

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OMA's proposal is one of the shortlisted entries for WEST KOWLOON CULTURAL DISTRICT Masterplan.

"We have tried to make the district a microcosm of the city in its combination of density and nature, discovering, to our own surprise, that we could realize the vast program and still preserve wide swaths of open space. An unsolicited part of our project is a Cultural Masterplan: a collaboration with experts from the cultural and financial worlds, based on a debriefing of Hong Kong’s stakeholders.

This cultural masterplan works in tandem with the physical plan, each informing and empowering the other. It tries to establish a new zone of creativity, interplay, and production on the basis of an existing infrastructure that, I can already testify, makes a mockery of the notion that Hong Kong has 'no culture'."

Rem Koolhaas 
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