Historic Hong Kong Buildings & Landmarks

Hong Kong’s first privately built multistorey car park opened in Causeway Bay, with firecrackers, a cocktail party and a fashion show, in July 1967.

Artificial intelligence student Shiu Ka-heng has created a 3D virtual version of the once magnificent floating palace online that will never sink nor capsize.

The decision to bulldoze Kowloon Walled City in 1993 wasted a chance to create a cultural treasure that celebrates its history and character. Instead of cookie-cutter shopping centres and residential towers, Hong Kong needs development that evolves from the local characteristics of each district.

A new exhibition at Hong Kong Maritime Museum documents Hong Kong’s growth as an international port post-World War II, and showcases the extraordinary spirit of Hong Kong people.

One Post Magazine columnist is in mourning for the passing of a cultural icon, but another argues the best place for the Jumbo Floating Restaurant that sank under tow is the bottom of the South China Sea.

Most people in Hong Kong will have heard about Sir Robert Ho Tung, once the territory’s richest person – but how much do they know about the man? Biographer May Holdsworth has dug up some fascinating facts.

The departure of the Jumbo Floating Restaurant would be a sad continuation of the trend of post-World-War-II local history disappearing. This is about an outdated antiquities assessment process, preserving Hong Kong’s collective memory and establishing the future of tourism in the city.

Antiquities and Monuments Office studying report on veranda-style shophouse at No 190 Nathan Road, in talks with current building owner.

The debate over whether and how to aid the struggling restaurant involves asking what makes some buildings worth preserving and not others. Some carry cultural value beyond their economic output, which makes them worth saving as part of our collective history and heritage.

Advocates pushing for preservation of building say structure is city’s only pre-World War II European-style building in Tsim Sha Tsui.

Barge suddenly capsized in the early hours of Wednesday but no one was injured, according to company spokeswoman.

Hong Kong has reopened to visitors, and the city has five new or updated attractions to draw incoming tourists, from the M+ and Palace museums to the new Water World at Ocean Park.

The Standard Chartered Bank’s new building was built on the site of its old headquarters, and when it was finished it was taller than Hong Kong Bank’s new headquarters.

In 1988, Pope John Paul II elevated Catholic Bishop John Baptist Wu Cheng-chung to Cardinal. The Hongkonger would ‘play an important role in the initiative to improve Sino-Vatican relations’.

Arriving in 1946, Hedda Morrison may have spent only six months in Hong Kong, but the German photographer left behind a unique, wide-ranging photographic record.

Lap Sap Chung was created by artist and author Arthur Hacker, who worked for the Government Information Services, and is featured in a retrospective exhibition.