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Ngong Ping 360 John Batchelor, Suresh Tank

15 Waste as a driver of change Part 1: The nature of the problem and why we have it Rachel Birch 25 Textus Mark Fletcher, Richard Greer, Dan Lister, Karen Walters 28 The Hylomorphic Project Judith Leuppi, Kristina Shea

31 Złote Tarasy, Warsaw, Poland Darren Anderson, Zbigniew Czajewski, Stuart Clarke, Ian Feltham, Paul Geeson, Marcin Karczmarczyk, Richard Kent, David Killion, Zbigniew Kotynia, Maciej Lewonowski, Robert Lindsay, Philip Monypenny, Chris Murgatroyd, Johnny Ojeil, Raf Orlowski, Andrzej Sitko, Darren Woolf 54 MCASD Downtown expansion: The Joan & Irwin Jacobs Building and the David C Copley Building Peter Berry, Jeffrey Huang, Ricardo Pittella 58 Urbanization as a driver of change Susan Thomas

1. Passenger cabins on the Ngong Ping 360 cableway pass each other above Lantau Island, Hong Kong.

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2. The Airport Island angle station (AIAS), leading to Tower 2B.

Ngong Ping 360
John Batchelor Suresh Tank
Introduction Ngong Ping 360, one of Hong Kong’s most challenging and complex tourism projects, is a cableway linking Tung Chung and Ngong Ping [pronounced “nong ping”], on Lantau Island immediately south of Hong Kong International Airport. Tung Chung is a new town developed in conjunction with the airport, whilst Ngong Ping is home to the 34m tall Tian Tan Buddha, the world’s largest outdoor seated bronze figure, completed in 1993 and weighing over 250 tonnes, and the nearby Po Lin monastery. Continuing the theme nearby is Ngong Ping Village, with attractions like “Walking with Buddha”, “Monkey’s Tale Theatre”, and the Ngong Ping Tea House, as well as shops, restaurants, and live entertainment. Totalling 5.7km in length, this bi-cable, circulating, detachable, cable car system is believed to be the largest of its kind in the world. Each cabin carries 17 passengers (10 seated and seven standing), and the system has the second highest transport capacity,


References: (1) WADE, C. Tung Chung Station and tunnels. The Arup Journal, 34(1), pp34-37, 1/1999 (Hong Kong Airport Core Projects Special Issue). (2) BLAIR, A, et al. Design and construction of the MTRC Tung Chung cable car. Hong Kong Institute of Engineers, 2005. (3) BAYLISS, RF, and CHUNG, L. The Tung Chung cable car – A new icon for Hong Kong [paper presented to HK Institution of Engineers Electrical Division seminar, October 2004]. (4) http://www.np360.com.hk 14 The Arup Journal 1/2008
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