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Buildings & Monuments
Updated: Thu, 28 May 2009 19:19:53 +0800
Courting Creativity
Alison Jenner

In its push for education, a US-based art school finds itself embroiled in a dispute over a court building in Hong Kong.   

Overlooked voices on Ngau Tau Kok reconstruction
Lam Lok Wai

Residents of the Lower Ngau Tau Kok Estate in Kwun Tong claims that they don't want to move and don't want the estate to be demolished, but their needs are being overlooked. The 40 years-old Lower Ngau Tau Kok Estate is going to be redeveloped by the government on May 2009, th...

The Cathedral in Time of Crisis
Liu Dong

  Standing in the heart of the city's financial downtown district, one of  the busiest places in Hong Kong, the St.John's Cathedral could always slow down people's paces and let them take a rest and enjoy the spiritual peace for a moment. What makes it special for Hong...

The Future of the History
Li Hanqiao

The Central Police Station Compound in Central has been protected as one of the last physical evidences of Hong Kong's colonial history. Especially after the protest against the demolishment of Star Ferry, Hong Kong people started to rethink about the previous urban development methods of the ...

Temple in the Clouds
Yan Jie

In overcrowded Hong Kong, Buddhist Monasteries adopt a high-rise existence   The study session on a Buddhist ...

Inside Bethanie: A Wonderland of Artists

  The Bethanie Chapel is built by the Missions Etranges of Paris in 1875. The chapel was listed as Grade II Historic Buildings in 1981. Bethanie is an European style structure, located on Pok Fu Lam road, nearby the University of Hong Kong. The Church provided residence for the missionaries ...

Shek Yuk Fung

University Hall was declaed as a monument in 1995. In the history of the building of the University Hall, there are three main periods: Douglas Castle, The Nazareth House and Univerisity Hall. University Hall itself, long before Hong Kong goverment launch the scheme of revitalization of hi...

Western Market: Presence of Absence
Yu Fang Jing

   “What this market had been through is one of the most vivid reflections of what Hong Kong had been through during the past 100 years.”      Ng Kai Kong remembers clearly the first day when he moved his cloth shop inside the Western Market. It was in one morning i...

 

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