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elegance and a vital place of contact between the former colonial administration and the
people - shows that no building in Hong Kong, no matter how valued its architectural and
historical heritage, is truly safe from the bulldozers.
Pre-Colonial Buildings
Tsui Sing Lau Pagoda (Yuen Long)
Tang Ancestral Hall (Yuen Long)
Yu Kiu Ancestral Hall (Yuen Long)
Sam Tung Uk Museum (Tsuen Wan)
Traditional Chinese Architecture
About the only examples of 19th-century Chinese architecture left in urban Hong Kong are
the popular Tin Hau temples, including those at Tin Hau near Causeway Bay, Aberdeen,
Stanley and Yau Ma Tei. Museums in Chai Wan and Tsuen Wan have preserved a few 18th-
century Hakka village structures. More substantial physical reminders of the past lie in the
New Territories and the Outlying Islands, where walled villages, fortresses and even a 15th-
century pagoda can still be seen.
Revitalised Heritage
Lui Seng Chun (Sham Shui Po)
Béthanie (Pok Fu Lam)
Explosives Magazine (Admiralty)
Old Tai O Police Station (Tai O)
Crown Wine Cellars (Aberdeen)
Mei Ho House Youth Hostel (Sham Shui Po)
East-Meets-West Architecture
Architectural cross-play had already been in vogue long before 'soy sauce Western' appeared
in colonial Hong Kong. Largely the preserve of the wealthy and the religious, local ex-
amples of fusion architecture have not earned the same level of public recognition accorded
to some outright, nostalgia-jerking colonial landmarks.
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