Land in Hong Kong, on the Island especially is very expensive. As a result you see a lot of buildings with small footprints but many floors. My favorite hotel, The Mercer, has no more than three rooms per floor but reaches 32 stories. Apartment buildings of 30-50 stories are everywhere.
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The Mercer Boutique Hotel, Hong Kong.
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| View from my room on the 32nd floor |
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| Looking southwest from the Mercer |
Shopping malls in Hong Kong, in fact in many Chinese cities are also arranged vertically, not sprawled and surrounded by massive parking lots as in the US. A favorite mall in Shanghai, dedicated it seems to nothing but electronics is seven stories tall. This does not appear to be unusual
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| The Metro City Shopping Mall in Shanghai |
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