General Post Office

Public Works Department 2 Connaught Place, Central 1976 Amidst the bustling streets of Central at the foot of the towering skyscrapers and colonial structures stands the Central General Post Office (GPO). It is a text-book example of modernist architecture ethos “form...

Wan Chai Market

Hong Kong Urban Council 258 Queen’s Road East, Wan Chai 1937 The Wan Chai Market, completed in 1937, was an active market on Hong Kong Island catering to local residents.  The market is an interesting example of the stylistic shifts taking place in Hong Kong’s...

Central Market

  Hong Kong Urban Council Jubilee Street, Queen’s Road Central, and Des Voeux Road, Central 1938 The Central Market was Hong Kong’s first wet market, and it has existed at its current location since 1850.  The current building was completed in 1938.  The...

Apartment Houses, 177-179 Prince Edward Road West

Nos. 177-179 Prince Edward Road West consists of a pair of four-storeyed, semi-detached European-styled flats built with reinforced concrete sometime between 1930 and 1935. Designed with a certain degree of spatial flexibility and comfort in mind, the buildings provided a better quality living environment than most Chinese tenement houses at the time. In fact, there is evidence to suggest they may have been constructed in response to the growing number of wealthy refugees moving to Hong Kong from mainland China in response to growing political and social unrest.

3-storey House, 20 Kadoorie Avenue

Faitfone Wong, Hong Kong Engineering & Construction Company 20 Kadoorie Avenue, Mongkok, Kowloon 1956-1957 The Kadoorie Estate itself dates from 1931, when Hong Kong Engineering & Construction Co., a company controlled by the Kadoorie family, purchased a bare...

2-storey House, 20 Stanley Village Road

Palmer and Turner Architects 20 Stanley Village Road, Stanley c. 1955 (demolished) The house was designed for Lam Chik-Suen, one of the managers of Lam, Woo & Company.  It sits on a site with two different levels, the lower of which was occupied by a tennis court....

3-storey Apartment House, 7 Verbena Road

  John Shao-Ling Woo 7 Verbena Road, Yau Yat Chuen Garden City, Kowloon 1953-55 Designed for a Mr. C.C. So by architect John Shao-Ling Woo, the building was built using reinforced concrete.  It consists of three floors of apartments, each containing three...
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