The race by developers to build skyscrapers in Kowloon appears to have slowed with a lack of new applications for super-high-rise construction.
Chief Building Surveyor Jeffrey Dobbing said the Buildings Department did not receive any submissions to build mega towers in Kowloon following the approval for Wharf (Holdings) to build the Gateway III in Tsim Sha Tsui.
He said building super-high-rise towers was a complicated business.
Developers might not want to build skyscrapers as a taller building would result in a smaller floor plate, reducing the building's efficiency, he said.
It depended on how effective the building would be after the height was raised, he said.
With the airport's relocation to Chek Lap Kok and the subsequent lift of height restrictions, developers had raced to build skyscrapers in Kowloon.
The latest approval by the Buildings Department was a 100-storey commercial redevelopment by Wharf in Canton Road, Tsim Sha Tsui.
