Hong Kong Central Market to be ‘redeveloped’

Chloe Lai at The Hong Kong Free Press has written an obituary for Hong Kong’s Central Market… it says pretty much all that needs to be said about the Central Market – that it is one of the only pre-war pieces of architecture designed for the community to remain standing – Wan Chai Market went over a decade ago now. It’s being described as a preservation, but is a complete gutting and destruction. Chloe Lai’s piece has more details and I urge you to read that.

The Central Market was never Hong KOng’s most beautiful building – but it was a functional, well designed space completed in 1939 that showed that the government’s Public Works Department could excel itself. It’s destruction later this year will be a sad loss for Hong Kong…