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Macau Tower The observation deck offers sweeping views and the opportunity for extreme sports, including bungee jumping.
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MACAU'S INNER BEAUTIES
Between the historic and the flashy, Macau has a lot to offer architecturally to those
with patience and a good eye.
Lovely Libraries
By the way they relate to their surroundings, Macau's libraries show how tiny propor-
tions can be beautiful.
Sir Robert Ho Tung Library A 19th-century villa and its glass-and-steel extension
rising above a garden, with Piranesi-like bridges between the two.
Chinese Reading Room Retirees and students come to the 'Octagonal Pavilion',
built in 1926, to read the news and to study.
Sr Wong Ieng Kuan Library An oasis of calm in the Luís de Camões Garden,
between a boulder that juts into the interior, and a banyan tree that frames the en-
trance.
Coloane Library Grotesque but cute, this mini Grecian temple (c 1917) has a pedi-
ment containing the word 'library' in Chinese and Portuguese, and disproportion-
ately fat columns.
Modernist Marvels
Macau has an important heritage of modernism, especially in the Inner Harbour area,
that is little known outside the city.
Pier 8 (8 MAP GOOGLE MAP ;Rua do Dr Lourenco Pereira Marquez; 5, 7) A stunner in grey,
50 paces south of Macau Masters Hotel; best views from the South Sampan Pier (
MAP GOOGLE MAP ) next door.
East Asia Hotel ( MAP GOOGLE MAP ; cnr Rua do Guimares & Rua da Madeira; 5, 7)
Chinese art deco in mint green; a little shabby, very chic.
Penha Hill 'Bishop's Hill' is littered with the stylish villas of the wealthy.
Red Market (Almirante Lacerda) This art-deco building houses a bustling wet mar-
ket.
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