Hong Kong Cube

Surely you’ve seen the ads. There’s something coming to town, something big, something mysterious. Something called… Queen’s Cube! We’re all sci-fi fans around the HK hacienda, so we had high hopes for this mysterious cube—could it be the deus ex machina that finally swoops in and frees us all from the bondage of greedy property developers and the complicit government that enables them? Would it set us free to enjoy the gift of life—a one-time gift with no refunds—together happily arm-in-arm with our brothers and sisters?

Some postulated it was the return of the British, sent by The Queen herself in some new high-tech multicultural ark. Others argued it was what would happen when the HSBC building finally transformed into an Optimus Prime-esque robot and lifted off, taking with it the half-trillion dollar reserves the government just keeps in the bank and doesn’t spend on its people. That wouldn’t be good. (But on the flipside we wouldn’t notice, and all it’d really mean is less bridges and fewer trains to nowhere.)

Whatever it was, we were sure, it had something to do with the recent lightning storms and UFO sightings and harbor explosions. A signal from extra terrestrials maybe?

Signs telling all the bankers to return to the mothership and quit screwing everything up?

Or maybe... just maybe… it could have been a new high-end dining concept by Aqua Group.

Well, by now we all know it’s actually just another freaking luxury property development. We should have guessed really. What else could it have possibly been, with tram ads featuring a woman wearing a crown sitting in a box, and a painfully slow-loading Flash website featuring ambient techno? Yes, Queen’s Cube is just another fancy property in Wan Chai with an eye-wateringly high price per square foot.