Forgotten Hong Kong Icon: Are These the Best Umbrellas You’ll Ever Own?
The fourth-generation owner of Leung So Kee explains why it’s essential to have a well-crafted umbrella in a city as rainy as Hong Kong...
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‘Horizon Hong Kong’: Xu Xi Reflects on Her City
A new collection brings together 22 short stories by one of Hong Kong’s foremost English-language writers — each rooted in her hometown...
What’s Next For Hong Kong’s Harbourfront?
With plans to make nearly all of Victoria Harbour accessible by 2028, now’s the time to start thinking critically about the quality of our waterfront spaces]...
Your Highly Subjective Guide to the Kowloon Harbourfront
The highs are higher and the lows are lower: exploring waterfront spaces on the north side of Victoria Harbour...
You Can’t Swim in Hong Kong’s Newest Pool – Because It’s Art
Learning to swim opened artist Chan Wai-lap up to the fascinating world of swimming pools, and helped him escape a creative rut in the process...
Hong Kong’s Skyline Icons: The Faded Glory of Tsim Sha Tsui East
Once famous for its holiday displays and over-the-top nightlife, TST East has fallen on hard times – but it's still a Hong Kong icon...
Three Photographers, Three Visions of Hong Kong
The photos of Lee Fook Chee, Hedda Morrison and Brian Brake come together to form a compelling portrait of Hong Kong – and the photographers themselves....
Jingle Bells: The Surprising Story Behind TST’s Silent Clock Tower
There’s a bell inside Hong Kong’s most famous clock tower, but it hasn’t been used in 71 years. Why not? ...
Hong Kong’s Skyline Icons: ICC and IFC, Guarding the Harbour
What do the icons of Hong Kong’s skyline say about the city?...
Telling History with Objects: The Mengdiexuan Collection
An impactful new exhibition showcases China's overlooked gold treasures in a spectacular setting. ...
L’ÉCOLE Shares 3,000 Years of Chinese Treasures in The Art of Gold
Extraordinary gold objects from the Mengdiexuan Collection come to light in a new exhibition....
Hong Kong’s Colonial Heritage, Part III: 1881 Heritage, the Malling of History
Why a project that saved a historic marine police complex is roundly criticised...
Witnesses to History: Hong Kong’s Clock Towers
As the Garden bakery clock tower is set for demolition, a look back at the iconic towers that have stood watch over Hong Kong's cityscape....
Hong Kong’s Missing Trees
The destruction of Typhoon Mangkhut underscored the precarious nature of Hong Kong's urban forest. ...
Hong Kong’s Train to China: A Brief History of the Kowloon-Canton Railway
As Hong Kong opens its new high-speed rail link to mainland China, we look back at its original cross-border railway....
The Vertical City, Part VI: A Hundred Hong Kong Towers at the Venice Biennale
Hong Kong brings its skyscrapers to the world’s largest architecture exhibition, asking how high-rise living can become more humane...
Hong Kong’s Jewish Governor and the Road that Bears His Name
There's a surprising history behind the concrete façades of Kowloon's most famous street....
Hong Kong’s Skyline Gets Dressed Up for Christmas
Thousands of people once flocked to Tsim Sha Tsui East to see the Christmas lights. While the crowds have thinned, the displays still shine....
A Contemporary Carmen: Bold and Ambitious, Yet Vulnerable
A Chinese and Japanese choreographer team up to put a new, made-for-2017 twist on the classic ballet Carmen....
The World Inside a Building: Chungking Mansions
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. ...
How Hong Kong’s Once-Thriving Portuguese Community Nearly Vanished
The Portuguese were one of the most important ethnic groups in Hong Kong. Now the community has nearly disappeared. What happened?...
A Snapshot of Hong Kong History – Part III: Across the Harbour, the early days of Kowloon
"From stonecutters" villages to a Portuguese enclave - the overlooked history of the Kowloon peninsula...