KORNHILL DEVELOPMENT - HONG KONG


The Kornhill residential and commercial development was the largest undertaken by a Hang Lung led consortium joint venture of the Mass Transit Railway Corpn.

Sited above Taikoo station on a levelled and terraced hill known as Kornhill, it consists of 8,686 residential units in 42 tower blocks, and 100,000 square meters of commercial and community space comprising health club, tennis courts, swimming pool, parks gardens and two primary schools.

Occupation commenced in 1989.

Aoki Construction Co of Japan won the site preparation contract, to remove the earth and rock with controlled blasting that used more than 200 tones of explosives.  Excavated material was placed into two rock crushers below ground level with the crushed material transported in a tunnel under Kings Road by conveyor belts for reclamation in Shaukeiwan Bay. 

Total development cost was approx. HK$3,000,000,000 (approx. US$385 m) in 1980

The reclamation area created was initially used by MTRC contractors to fit-oy the Island Line tunnels with everything required for that secion of the MTRC


Forty-two apartment blocks providing 8,800 units, accommodating 35,000 people. Two commercial blocks, two primary schools, swimming pools, tennis courts, car parking.
The Mass Transit railway station is under the road running through the complex.
5.5 million cubic metres of rock were removed and used to form a reclamation / staging area for the Mass Transit Railway's construction of the Island Line. The first two residential tower blocks are under construction in the foreground.

Topping-out of the first residential tower block, me second from right, without a helmet.

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