Ghetto at the Center of the World : Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong Stephen Bayley and celebrating the genius of

and celebrating the genius of your existence

and a star-crossed love whose roots drink deep of a violent past

constant questioning and constant improvement

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From the moment scientists contemplated the destructive potential of splitting the atom

Ghetto at the Center of the World : Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong Stephen Bayley and celebrating the genius ofThere is nowhere else in the world quite like Chungking Mansions, a dilapidated seventeen story commercial and residential structure in the heart of Hong Kong's tourist district. A remarkably motley group of people call the building home; Pakistani phone stall operators, Chinese guesthouse workers, Nepalese heroin addicts, Indonesian sex workers, and traders and asylum seekers from all over Asia and Africa live and work there even backpacking tourists