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Hong Kong Heritage Podcast (RTHK3) – Hong Kong’s Architectural Legacy of ‘Delayed Modernism’ #1

Posted: April 10th, 2022 | No Comments »

I was recently on the Hong Kong Heritage podcast from RTHK3 talking about Hong Kong’s tradition of ‘delayed modernism’ in architecture, those Shanghai architects & firms that moved south in 49 & how streamline moderne & art-deco evolved into the Bauhaus & Brutalism. In the show we feature 6 key buildings – Central Market (1939), the Bank of China building (1951), the North Point Methodist Church (1961), the Hung Hom Ferry terminal (1979), the Shatin Jockey Club building (1985) and Kadoorie Hill (1930s)…



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