The picture is scaffolding holding up a glass dome at Discovery Bay Plaza as they are currently repainting the inside.
As every building in HK must be cleaned every seven years (have I mentioned how bad the pollution can be?) there is a schedule for Discovery Bay as to when all the buildings are due. Most of the buildings here are tiled on the outside so high pressure hoses are used to clean them. 
This time around though, rather than only cleaning some of the buildings, they are cement rendering them. This has had the effect of transforming some of them from looking like tall public toilet blocks to a more of a resort.
Ideally, you try to live somewhere that has been through this process relatively recently as it is a bit inconvenient. While the scaffolding itself looks great and looks very intricately designed, it is then draped in a green mesh which when you’re on the inside looking out, gives the world a rather greenish hue.
The process tends to take a couple of months and while seeing the world through rose coloured glasses would be ok, green coloured ones would tend to make me feel a little on the sick side after a while.
Our building was done three years ago and now has a layer of tiles under its cement rendering. I’m pleased to have missed the process and can now enjoy my bamboo scaffolding from a far – I’m sure I wouldn’t like it so much if I was on the inside of it!
* Thanks to Björk for the title to this post.