In Hong Kong and Singapore back in the '80s and '90s, there was still this post-colonial search for their own identity.
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The higher-ups asked the world's most famous architects to build the world's best towers. And from that point, multinational companies would come in and decide to put their Asian base in Singapore and Hong Kong, which is exactly what happened.
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