Palmer & Turner Choi Hung Estate, Wong Tai Sin, Kowloon East 1962-1964 Many Hong Kongers today recognize the familiar photo shot of Instagrammers and tourists smiling in front of the picture-perfect rainbow building: Choi Hung Estate. Back in the 60s when it was...
Public Works Department 99 Kennedy Road, Wan Chai 1954 The Wan Chai Polyclinic, still operating today, was designed by the Architectural office of the Public Works Department back in 1954. It was meant to replace the existing clinic at Harcourt Centre with a more...
Ng Ping King 2 Welfare Road, Wong Chuk Hang, Aberdeen 1962 Since 1962, St. Mary’s Home for the Aged served the elderly in Hong Kong as a nursing home. The centre was erected at a time when the Hong Kong government was also working to build various other medical...
Public Works Department (J.B. Aitken) 9 Perth Street, Kowloon 1964 Homantin Government Secondary School was built in 1964, at a time when many other Government schools were coming to life to address the growing need to provide education due to an upsurge in...
Housing Authority (architect T.S.C. Feltham) Ka Wai Man Road, Kennedy Town 1958 Sai Wan Estate is one of the first public housing projects that the Housing Authority undertook after its formation in April 1954. The semi-independent government organisation was...
Eric Cumine, Szeto Wai (overall design); Chau & Lee (blocks A, B, C, D); W. Szeto (blocks E, F, G, H, I), Luke Him Sau (blocks P, Q, R), Leigh & Orange (blocks S, T, U) Po On Road, Cheung Sha Wan 1957-1962 So Uk Estate was the Hong Kong Housing Authority’s...
Public Works Department (Chief Architect A.M.J. Wright) 181 Tong Mei Road, Tai Kok Tsui 1953 The Mong Kok Fire station was the first fire station to be built in Hong Kong since World War II. Rectangular in shape, the building is bounded by Sycamore street on the West,...
Palmer & Turner (first phase); Aedas Ltd. (second phase) 15 Queen’s Road Central 1979 (first phase); 1982 (second phase) The Landmark is an office and retail complex located in Central. Its owner, Hongkong Land, conceived of the project in order to...
