After the Factory Floor: Sham Shui Po’s Industrial Reuse
As manufacturing moved north, Sham Shui Po’s industrial buildings shifted toward trade, exhibitions, logistics and new creative uses.
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Looking into the Han Tomb Through Glass
At Lei Cheng Uk, a glass barrier lets visitors look into a brick tomb discovered during housing construction in 1955.
Mei Ho House and the Shape of Resettlement Housing
The H-shaped Mei Ho House records the first generation of Hong Kong public housing and the spatial form of early resettlement blocks.
New Work in Shek Kip Mei’s Factory Estate
A nine-storey factory building from 1977 became a centre where studios and public cultural activity occupy former industrial space.
Industrial Memory in Sham Shui Po’s Streets
Textile, garment, metal and enamel industries shaped Sham Shui Po; specialist streets still carry traces of that commercial landscape.
The Deep-water Pier Lost to Reclamation
Today’s inland streets preserve a name tied to a deepwater pier said to have stood near Pei Ho and Tung Chau streets.
Panyu on a Brick: A County Name in the Han Tomb
A single place-name on a tomb brick locates Lei Cheng Uk within the administrative geography of Han-era southern China.
An Eastern Han Tomb Beneath a Housing Project
A housing project in 1955 exposed a Han tomb at Lei Cheng Uk, turning a construction site into one of Hong Kong’s key archaeological discoveries.