When Hong Kong artist Cynthia Lau sketches an old building, she is doing more than just expressing her creativity. She is documenting a rapidly changing city. “I find great pleasure in sketching ...

Composed of shops, businesses and apartments, Hong Kong’s old tenement buildings – or “tong lau” – are microcosms of life in the city. Similar to the so-called shophouses of Southeast ...

Conservation activists rightfully demand that old, historically interesting and, ideally, beautiful buildings be saved from the wrecking ball. Yet Hong Kong’s “old” buildings aren’t that ...

HONG KONG — When British officials talk about their legacy in Hong Kong, they often boast of the colony’s rule of law, efficient bureaucracy and lack of corruption. But walk around Hong Kong ...

Hong Kong’s ageing buildings are posing safety risks and have become a public concern. In the first of a two-part series, Edith Lin looks at the major problem of building decay and ways to ...

Since that first excursion, she’s been inside the most unlikely of places: an old hospital ... return as the building around them crumbles. It’s from the history of Hong Kong she’s witnessed ...

“For years, the arguments against building affordable new housing in Hong Kong have been that it’s just too expensive and that we don’t have enough land,” says Juan Du, honorary professor ...

a day after the Hong Kong Golf Club’s current lease expires. The swath of land, known as the Old Course, was built in 1911 and is the oldest 18-hole course in Greater China. Members pay an ...

The decision to build on the golf course also reflects how old business elites in Hong Kong are losing political sway as more ... One advantage of the plan is that building on government-owned land ...