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 ...

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’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 ...

Hong Kong's legislature has agreed to lower the threshold for the proportion of owners who must agree to sell old private buildings to as low as 65 per cent as part of a government bid to speed up ...

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 facade of an old tenement building, known locally as a "tong lau", in Mong Kok district, Hong Kong Dec 10, 2022. (Image: Chow Yin Shing/CNA) Conservation groups said heritage buildings can be ...

He said old buildings in the district fetched HK$7,000 ... the lowest figure on Hong Kong Island since 2002. Au said he hoped a review of the URA’s compensation rate would be carried out and ...

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 ...