A middle-class apartment block, a centre of nightlife, a seedy flophouse, a centre of global trade and a haven for asylum-seekers: the many lives of Hong Kong's Chungking Mansions. ...
This story was published in 2017. Haw Par Music ceased operations in December 2022 and the government is currently seeking a new occupant for Haw Par Mansion. Tiger Balm Garden is gone forever, but its spirit remains. Work is underway on restoring Haw Par Mansion, the only surviving portion of a vast estate that included […]...
Ten historic shophouses in Wan Chai are now home to a haven for Hong Kong's vibrant comics culture, with a library, exhibition hall and space for a packed roster of events....
When Anson Chan joined the civil service in 1962, the odds were stacked against women who wanted a career – so how did she become Hong Kong's most powerful woman?...
The MTR's new South Island Line boasts an art collection – part of the MTR's ongoing effort to give Hong Kong's rapid transit system more personality....
Hong Kong’s housing estates planted the seed for its verticality: nearly half the population lives in these high-rise neighbourhoods. But how did they come to be?...
M+ Museum's inaugural design exhibition, Shifting Objectives, is a window into curator Aric Chen's efforts to build a design collection that bridges the mundane and the extraordinary....
The changes started years ago, but it was only when the giant cow disappeared that it became clear what was happening. In 2015, the bovine emblem of Queen’s Road West restaurant Sammy’s Kitchen was removed, an iconic piece of neon scrubbed from the street it had dominated for 40 years. The cow was taken away […]...
Clockenflap has built up its credentials as a world-class music festival, but co-founder Jay Forster hopes to make its arts component just as relevant....
There are more local breweries at this year's Beertopia craft beer festival than ever before – and some are making distinctively Hong Kong-flavoured brews. ...
British architect Ron Phillips left behind an impressive legacy during his 14 years in Hong Kong – and now one of his star projects is being revamped into a luxury hotel....
Josh and Caleb Ng don’t have interests – they have projects. A few years ago, at a friend’s dinner party, the twin brothers were captivated by a beer made with Amarillo hops, a rich, malty brew with hints of peach and orange. They began buying craft beer, which led them to one Danish brand they found […]...
Hundreds of trees are being carefully grown in West Kowloon's Nursery Park, which will soon populate one of Hong Kong's most highly anticipated green spaces.
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Wong Chuk Hang has the potential to become one of Hong Kong's leading cultural enclaves – if a government crackdown on industrial space doesn't stop it first. ...
Architects Elva Tang and Claude Bøjer Godefroy are using their globe-trotting experience to build an innovative new home for the French International School in Hong Kong....
Christopher DeWolf is a Canadian journalist who has lived in Hong Kong since 2008. He was drawn by the contrasts of the city's street life: quiet lanes filled with stray cats and potted plants; sleek glass-and-steel footbridges; frenetic markets where rainbow umbrellas shelter fresh vegetables and flopping fish. Christopher's work on urbanism, architecture, design, art and culture has appeared in the South China Morning Post, Wall Street Journal, TIME, LEAP and many other publications. His book on Hong Kong's unique urban culture, Borrowed Spaces: Life Between the Cracks of Modern Hong Kong, was published by Penguin in 2017. He hopes to bring a ground-up sense of place to his work for Zolima CityMag.
