Bamboo Scaffolds

One of the things I remember from my first trip to Hong Kong in the mid-1990s is the bamboo scaffolding that you see all over the city. It's interesting to watch the scaffolding rise around a building in just a day or two, with guys hauling bamboo poles up from the street and building the scaffold as they go. This one went up across the street from our place a few weeks ago and now -- as we discovered over the weekend -- there's plenty of noise coming from the work site, which is now covered with the green plastic that's on the left side of this picture.


I wondered, when we moved in, why we hadn't been shown any of the apartments in that building, because a number of them were standing empty. It just got emptier and emptier, and will probably now reopen with much more expensive units than it had before.

One of the coolest things about the scaffolding is that the height of the building doesn't seem to be an issue. I've seen bamboo scaffolds on buildings much taller than this one.