A political loophole between China and Hong Kong created a 2.6 hectare Chinese enclave in Kowloon where Hong Kong authorities had no rights and Chinese authorities refused to take care. Originally a military fort, it developed into a city for refugees, criminals, illegal businesses, drug dealers, unlicensed doctors and dentists, who could operate there without threat of prosecution. Was demolished in 1993 and replaced by a park.
Public housing and private housing estates. Region, district, estate, phase, block, number of floors, units per floor, total units, occupation date.
Hong Kong use an unique system where Gross floor area include a sharepart of common spaces, thus two blocks with identical apartment units but with different number of units per floor had different gross floor area stated for each apartment, because in the block with fewer apartments per floor the common areas were divided to fewer apartments. In other countries Gross floor area meaning is like Hong Kong’s Saleable area.
Enjoy breathtaking panoramas over Hong Kong towers!
Per total, 53% of housing are owner-occupied. Is hard for me to make estimation about average apartment size in Hong Kong or about the ratio sqm per person, due to lack of detailed statistics about housing system, high income inequality, many people living in extremely small 1-room apartments, illegally-divided apartments, as well as boathouses, caged homes, rooftop huts and other forms of inhumane homes.
Philadelphia City Hall (1901), Singer Building (1908), Metropolitan Life Tower (1909), Woolworth Building (1913), Equitable Building (1915), Bank of Manhattan Trust Building (1930), Chrysler Building (1930), Empire State Building (1931), World Trade Center (1971), Sears Tower (1973), CN Tower (1976), Petronas Towers (1998), Taipei 101 (2004), Shanghai World Financial Center (2008), Burj Khalifa (2010), Jeddah Tower (under construction).
There are 3 types of hosting services:
– Free web hosting services with pre-made templates
– Free web hosting with PHP and MySQL, similar with paid hosting
– Paid hosting services (shared server, virtual private server, dedicated server)
Webdesign companies do exist all over the world, but 90% of spammers sending unsolicited emails and phone calls are from India, usually start-ups and unexperienced teenagers claiming that are big companies and fool naive people to outsource work to them. Not all Indian companies are spammers, but the (5%?) doing SPAM damage reputation of Indian IT industry and reputable companies suffer as well.
They guarantee that will push my website to top of Google search results, 101% recovery from Panda and Penguin penalties, etc (for your info: no one can guarantee #1 in Google. What if multiple websites in same niche apply for their services, who will be #1?). I asked them how they do that, but most of them do not provide details, they just insist to get paid and let my website on their hands.
I can provide DWG file, 2D or 3D model of your HDB flat for only $40! And not just HDB floor plans. I can also design condo floor plans, house plans, etc. Contact me for anything that can be drafted in AutoCAD!
First time I made such table was in 2004 (15 years old) when I spent few days making in Paint an image with 48 hue levels and 32 lighting levels (Excel 97-2003 was limited to 56 colors).
In 2018 I remade it in Excel, adding RGB values for easier use, the job took about 4 hours, 48 hue levels and 16 lighting levels. In 2019 also made a Scalable Vector Graphics table with HEX colors.
I design furniture since ~14 years old (~2003), around 15 years old my mom employed in a furniture factory so we refurnished my room using my pre-made drawings. People who contacted me over years made me to pursue my career in architecture rather than interior design. Whenever I will do furniture design again, we will see…
Minimum room size, length, width and floor area, setback requirements and other rules used in apartment blocks and house projects designed by me in “Teoalida’s Virtual City”. plus comparison with building codes from various countries.
Before moving into architecture design in 2008, I also modeled few 3D car models in AutoCAD. I did NOT wanted to design the ultimate sport car, but a classic family car, with many details as possible, to show my graphic design skills and use AutoCAD photorealistic effects.
The hobby for designing maps have a long history. Starting from 6 years old I was drawing random roads on paper and coloured them in various colors. The first time I designed a map of a real city was at age of 14, in 2003 I made on paper a map of my city downtown with a special attention given to historical buildings.
This palace is one of the most beautiful 3D modeling works that I ever designed in AutoCAD. Many people were impressed not only by the beautiful 3D renders, but also for excellent model geometry that makes it to look like 18-19th century neoclassic architecture. Some people asked me how I got the idea to design such complex building, and suggested to change some details to make it better, BUT…
You give me JPG, PNG or other raster image format, and I give you DWG, DXF or PDF. Contact me for price quote!
I added too many keywords in image ALT tags on 2 pages each with around 100 images. These 2 pages have been the first to be penalized by Google, in mid-2013 for few months they were no longer appearing in searches and traffic dropped with 90%. I should have taken this as a WARNING that I do something wrong, but I did not paid any attention and continued adding ALT tags stuffed with keywords. On 12 October 2013 whole site was removed from Google search results for most keywords, causing traffic drop from 500 to 150 daily visitors. On 9 January 2014 remove the ALT and TITLE tags. Surprise, next day 10 January penalty was lifted (after 90 days).
Caesar III is one of my favorite games. I got the demo version in 2000 from a magazine CD. Demo version include only first 2 missions but 2nd one is bigger than in full game. Started playing in the morning and build as much I can by end of day, reaching population of about 5000, Demo version was not allowing me to save game.
I got the full game only in 2005, and I played it a lot in 2005-2006, then in 2008, and a little since October 2011, the moment in which I created this page on my website, originally strictly for cities built by me. In 2012 the business forced me to stop playing games, but I kept expanding page adding info about game itself.