engineering

Grand Waterfront

Grand Waterfront is a engineering topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Grand Waterfront rather than just read about it. In short: Grand Waterfront (Chinese: 翔龍灣) is a private housing estate and a shopping mall in Ma Tau Kok, Kowloon, Hong Kong, near Kowloon City Ferry Pier. Formerly a Hong Kong and China Gas towngas plant, the estate consists of five 57-storey high-rise buildings and a shopping arcade.

Key takeaways

Grand Waterfront belongs to engineering; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Grand Waterfront to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Grand Waterfront from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Grand Waterfront (Chinese: 翔龍灣) is a private housing estate and a shopping mall in Ma Tau Kok, Kowloon, Hong Kong, near Kowloon City Ferry Pier. Formerly a Hong Kong and China Gas towngas plant, the estate consists of five 57-storey high-rise buildings and a shopping arcade. It was jointly developed by Henderson Land Development and Hong Kong and China Towngas and completed in 2007.

History The site was formerly the southern plant of the Ma Tau Kok towngas factory, owned by Hong Kong and China Gas. It was shut down in the 1990s. Height restrictions across Kowloon were relaxed following the 1998 closure of nearby Kai Tak Airport. Henderson Land, which owns part of the Hong Kong and China Gas Company, applied to the Town Planning Board to allow for high-rise residential development on the site. The complex was designed by DLN Architects of Hong Kong. The main contractor was Heng Shung Construction, a subsidiary of Henderson Land. As part of the launch of the project, in August 2006, Jennifer Hawkins became the ambassador for the development. Full front page colour photographs of her appeared as advertisements in several Chinese-language newspapers; minute-long advertisements for the development were aired on primetime television in Hong Kong featuring Hawkins.

Characteristics and features Grand Waterfront has a total gross floor area of approximately 103,100 square metres (1,110,000 sq ft) occupying a site of 12,126 square metres (130,520 sq ft). It has five residential blocks housing 1,782 units, a shopping centre, and a 268-space car park. The residential blocks have 52 storeys (51 with residential flats, plus the lobby level). As some floor numbers are omitted for superstitious reasons, the topmost floors are labelled as the 62nd storey. The two-level shopping centre, called Grand Waterfront Plaza, has a floor area of approximately 150,000 square feet (14,000 m2). It has approximately 50 shops. The largest anchors are Wellcome Superstore and Victoria Harbour Restaurant.

Transport The estate is adjacent to Kowloon City Ferry Pier and the Kowloon City Ferry Pier Bus Terminus. Grand Waterfront is approximately 0.9 km from the Exit A of To Kwa Wan MTR station. It takes around 10-min walk to the station.

Education Grand Waterfront is in Primary One Admission (POA) School Net 34. Within the school net are multiple aided schools (operated independently but funded with government money) and two government schools: Farm Road Government Primary School and Ma Tau Chung Government Primary School.

References

External links

Official website of Grand Waterfront "Ma Tau Kok Gas Works (1st location) [1935-c.1994]". gwulo.com.

Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Grand Waterfront

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Grand Waterfront claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In engineering, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Grand Waterfront before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Grand Waterfront ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Grand Waterfront

In research: Grand Waterfront appears in engineering research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Grand Waterfront in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Grand Waterfront is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Buildings and structures completed in 2007, Henderson Land Development, Ma Tau Kok, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Grand Waterfront outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Grand Waterfront in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Grand Waterfront means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Grand Waterfront out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Grand Waterfront in simple terms?

Why does Grand Waterfront matter?

Because it connects several engineering ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Grand Waterfront?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Grand Waterfront.