Hong Kong Architectural Characteristics?

Hong Kong, China's architecture is varied. Due to limited land, very few historic buildings in the urban areas have been preserved. However, as a center of modern architecture, many old buildings have been demolished to make room for new ones. The history of architecture in Hong Kong, China can be roughly categorized into three periods, the Traditional Chinese Architecture Period, the European and American Architecture Period and the Modern Architecture Period. Before the opening of the port, due to the geographical relationship between the architectural characteristics of Hong Kong, China and the Lingnan area are not different, are based on traditional Chinese temples, village houses, walled villages. Since most of the people of Hong Kong, China were fishermen at that time, many temples of Kwun Yum, Tin Hau and Hau Wong were built along the coast to protect the peace. After the boundary was restored in 1669, many Chiu Chow and Hakka people moved into Yuen Long and North District, etc. In order to protect their homes, they built many Hakka walled villages and more buildings. Famous walled villages in Hong Kong, China include Kat Hing Wai in Kam Tin, Yuen Long, Tsang Tai Uk next to Pok Hong Estate in Sha Tin, Sheung Shui Wai in Sheung Shui Heung, Fanling Wai built by the Pang family and Nga Tsin Wai Village in Tung Kwong Road, San Po Kong, Kowloon. In the early days of the opening of the port, the population in the vicinity of Tai Ping Shan Street in Central increased rapidly. As a result, people began to build tenement buildings in large numbers to solve the housing problem. Many of the tenement buildings were a mixture of Chinese and Western architectural styles, often featuring Western-style stone pillars and decorative patterns with small Chinese-style balconies. Due to the limitations of building technology at the time, tenement buildings were generally 3 to 4 storeys in height, divided into front and back blocks, with riding floors at the front and some with balconies, and the base of the building was higher than that of modern residential buildings. The first floor of a tenement building is usually used for stores, while the upper floors are used as residences. Tenement buildings do not have elevators, only stairs connecting the floors, and many old tenement buildings do not have toilet facilities. As the population of Hong Kong, China, continued to rise and the city continued to develop in the districts of Sai Wan, Causeway Bay and Kowloon, tenement buildings continued to spring up in these areas until the introduction of the public **** housing policy in Hong Kong, China ****. Lui Seng Chun in Sham Shui Po and Blue House in Wan Chai are famous tenement buildings. Because they later began to switch to the use of concrete as a building material, tenement buildings could have as many as seven storeys. Nowadays, most of the pre-war tenement buildings have slowly disappeared due to urban development and disrepair. After the opening of the port, the British brought in Victorian and Edwardian architectural styles. Some of the more famous ones are the Legislative Council Building [1], which adopts neo-classical design, the Central Police Station [2], which is famous for its granite carvings, the third generation of the General Post Office of Hong Kong, China, and the Murray Building, to name a few. The former Hong Kong, China Club Building was built in 1897, while the style was adopted from the Italian Renaissance. The first building in Hong Kong, China to be recognized as an edifice was constructed between June 1904 and December 1905. The building consisted of five blocks, each with five to six floors. It was constructed by China Hong Kong Land, a joint venture between Jim Keswick and Paul Chater. Most of the skyscrapers were used for commercial purposes. The first skyscraper to be considered a skyscraper was the former HSBC head office building, built in 1935, which was already air-conditioned. The building was 70 meters high*** with 13 floors and was designed in the Chicago School. It was replaced by the HSBC Headquarters Building in Hong Kong, China, which was completed in 1985. In Hong Kong, China, the only other buildings with modern vertical lines of the 1930s and the German Bauhaus style are the Central Market and the Wan Chai Market, which is facing demolition. The Wan Chai Market was designed by a British architect within the then Works Bureau and has a bit of the streamlined facade of the late Art Deco movement. The South China General Seminary in Wong Chuk Hang, Hong Kong, China, is a blend of Chinese and Italian architectural art, and has become a very distinctive building in the area. 2015-01-04 16:06:06 Add: Modern Architecture Period: The rise of high-class commercial buildings in Central. After decades of development, Central became a concentration of a large number of high-rise buildings. These buildings form the skyline of Victoria Harbour, which attracts large numbers of tourists. since 1990, a number of residential buildings have also been constructed in the form of skyscrapers, some of which are taller than some of the tallest office towers in some countries. The tallest residential building in Hong Kong is now the 7th tallest purely residential building in the world, along with others such as Grand Promenade and Hiu Lu. With the closure of the Kai Tak Airport in 1998, the height of controls imposed for the safety of airplane landings has also been raised. Many skyscrapers are planned to be built in Kowloon, including the West Kowloon Reclamation. I looked on the Internet

I hope to help you 2015-01-04 16:40:11 Add: Tulou usually refers to the unique southwest Fujian about the use of unprocessed raw soil, rammed weight-bearing raw soil walls composed of a group of people living in and defense of a large-scale building, the total number of about more than 3,000 seats. The main distribution areas include Nanjing County and Hua'an County in Zhangzhou City and Yongding County in Longyan City. Tulou is a unique form of large-scale residential buildings in the world, and is known as the treasure of traditional Chinese residential buildings. The famous Tulou, mainly round and square Tulou, have attracted the attention of the tourism industry around the world in southern Fujian and Guangdong. However, the most famous Tulou, such as Zhenchenglou, Chengqilou and Tianluokeng Tulou Cluster, are inhabited by Hakka people. Hong Kong, China's former buildings are based on traditional Chinese temples, village houses, walled villages

There is a difference with China . 2015-01-04 16:58:43 Supplement: the origin of the earth building, the initial round military fortress only one layer, and then gradually evolved into residential, in order to save arable land, it will be to the high development, into a multi-storey round earth building. Hakka migrated from the Central Plains to southern Fujian, bringing the Central Plains quadrangle form, due to the need for defense, the establishment of thick earth walls, which is the source of the five phoenix buildings and square earth building. Because of the round earth building, can use the same length of the outer wall, surrounded by the largest public **** courtyard, in the high-level lookout point of the field of view, than the square building wide, by the Hakka people have adopted. Round building for the round earth building, Minnan people called round village earth building. The name is embedded in the name of "Zhai" as the use of the building is more important than defense. Although there are not the most round earth buildings, they are usually the largest in size. The largest one can even have more than 72 rooms. Usually, the ground floor of a round building is the dining room and kitchen, the second floor is the storehouse, and the third floor and above is the living room. A circle of common corridors connected each room. The design usually focuses on the defense function. Tulou is a communal dwelling

Like a walled village.

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chiculture/05140514a01/0514a01 Hong Kong, China, was officially opened in 1842, but in fact the history of Hong Kong, China, can be traced back to ancient times, with some of the oldest surviving traditional Chinese buildings being over 200 years old. In addition, the modern development of Hong Kong, China has been influenced by both Chinese and Western cultures, leaving behind some valuable colonial buildings and cultural relics. In recent decades, Hong Kong, China has been developing rapidly into a cosmopolitan city with new buildings, and many old buildings have been demolished for redevelopment. Fortunately, under the protection of the existing legislation on antiquities and monuments in Hong Kong, China, a number of valuable traditional Chinese and Western-style buildings have been preserved, including Chinese temples, residential buildings, ancestral halls and academies, etc., and Western-style church buildings, universities, official residences, and **** buildings (e.g. police stations, courthouses, observatories, military barracks), etc., which are distributed all over the New Territories and the urban areas.　Among the existing Chinese traditional buildings in Hong Kong, the walled villages can be said to have the most localized characteristics of Hong Kong, China, and can best reflect the cultural development of Hong Kong, China. Only a few of these villages have survived to the present day, and some of the most famous ones are the Kik Hing Wai Wai in Kam Tin, Yuen Long, which was built in the Ming Dynasty during the Chenghua period (around the middle of the 13th century), and the Haji Lung Wai in Lung Yue Tau, Fanling, which was built in the ninth year of the Qianlong reign in the Qing Dynasty (1744).　Among the Western-style colonial buildings in Hong Kong, China, the Old Third Army Commander's Residence is the oldest Western-style building in Hong Kong. Built in 1846, it was converted into a Tea Ware Museum in 1984 and declared a historical building in 1989. Among the existing Western-style church buildings, the famous one is the former French Foreign Mission Building (i.e. the present Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong, China) located in Central Battery Lane. It is said to have been built in the 1840s, with a height of three storeys, and was listed as a historical building in 1989.