WHEN YOU WALK through the door into the semi-darkness, the first building you see looming up in front of you is the Hongkong & Shanghai Bank. A couple of steps further on, the Bank of China Tower comes into view.
On its left, the linked apartment towers of Tung Chung Crescent rub shoulders with the majestic Kowloon MTR Tower and the megatower of Kowloon Station. If you take a quick look behind you, Victoria Harbour fills your view. And isn't that the Empire State Building over there just behind the Bank of China?
Hold on a moment. There is something very wrong here. Tung Chung Crescent isn't next door to the Bank of China Tower. The MTR and Kowloon Station towers haven't even been built and you should not be able to see the Empire State Building towering over Victoria Harbour.
What's going on?
The answer is breathtaking and exciting and makes you look at buildings in a way that you have never looked at them before.
Norman Foster, the world-famous architect of the Hongkong & Shanghai Bank headquarters and Chek Lap Kok International Airport, has put together a very special display as part of the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.
Foster has gathered architectural models of famous skyscrapers from all over the world and thrown them together, tower next to tower, to make an amazing 3-D collage of buildings that reach for the sky.
