The Feng Shui War That Shook Hong Kong’s Skyline
There are power struggles… and then there are power struggles written into the skyline itself. Back in the booming 1980s and 90s, Hong Kong wasn’t just a battlefield of banking empires—it became the stage for one of the most dramatic, high-stakes “feng shui wars” in modern history. A clash so grand, so theatrical, so unapologetically Hong Kong that even decades later people still whisper about it like a legend. And honestly? Whether every detail is fact or folklore doesn’t even matter. Because the one thing we can see, with our own eyes, is this: Billion-dollar corporations took feng shui seriously enough to reshape an entire skyline. Image: Two futuristic skyscrapers beside the water. A giant wave crashes in the foreground as lightning bolts strike the taller tower, creating a dramatic, stormy cityscape scene. [ ] The Opening Salvo — HSBC Strikes First Image: Modern glass skyscraper with a distinctive spiral walkway or structure wrapping around it from the...