Subject : The most Chill tenement house in the 1940s on Huangjie Street in the Central and Upper Ring Roads.
中上環城皇街最Chill 40年代唐樓 露台被老樹覆蓋仿如「綠洲」
The terrace is covered by old trees like an "oasis"
Legend has it that in the early years of Hong Kong's opening, there were 30 private houses on the hillside of Victoria City. The houses are lit at night to guide the fishing boats home. According to literature records, everyone called this place Sanjian.
The tenement buildings that were lit back then gradually turned into high-rise buildings to surround the place. Chenghuang Street and Wing Lee Street, where "The Thief of Time" was filmed in 2010, were originally included in the scope of reconstruction. However, because the owners of Nos. 17 to 19, Shing Wong Street insisted not to sell the buildings, this place became a "time-space gap in Central" that retains the feeling of 1940. After the film was screened, it also aroused everyone's reluctance to the old community, which turned into a conservation plan for this community. The streets have been repaired cleanly, and the neighbors also have the consciousness to protect this century-old block.
If Aberdeen Street is used as the boundary, Shing Wong Street belongs to Sheung Wan. A 70-year-old tenement building in the center of the street was renovated in the early years, with green floor-to-ceiling subway grilles and a small terrace. The morning sun slips into the house through the shadow of the trees, and the birds are stealing the herbs on the terrace. Residents live between Central and Sheung Wan, who would have imagined that looking out of the window, the IFC in Central is within easy reach.
Taura from the United States has lived in Hong Kong for 23 years. She has lived in subdivided flats and lofts. When she lived in a single private building on Aberdeen Street, 200 feet away, she had already taken a fancy to this 70-year-old building surrounded by tall buildings. Old Tanglou. Two years ago, I finally had the opportunity to rent one of the units. Although there is no fiber optic here, the pipes are aging and must be used carefully. Every time I go home, I walk up or down hundreds of stairs: "Indeed, I have to calculate the itinerary every time I go shopping , should I go up the stairs to Jiandao first, and then go around Luoshan and take the stairs back after shopping, or is it the other way around? But now I can carry 15kg of things back at a time, and my physical strength is fine, but I don’t wear high heels anymore.”
Vincent grew up in Central, but his friends always asked him, "Where is the place to live in Central?" Li "Shi Dongpo Cultural Scholars", on the surface, is a small shop selling vintage items. In fact, they hold art exhibitions, book signings, screenings here from time to time, and also consign new works of cultural people. He will set up tables and chairs in the middle of the stairs, and neighbors will pass by, or they will sit down and drink water when they are tired from walking, and then chat together. He believes that to preserve a community naturally, as long as the old streets and old houses are repaired and the residents are allowed to live freely, a shop with human touch and vitality will naturally be bred.
Vincent enjoys a slow life in Central, while Alvin, who lives in Kowloon, falls in love with the nostalgic and quiet neighborhood of Central and Sheung Wan. He confessed that when he was a child, he never felt the beauty of these old streets and alleys, but when he returned from studying abroad, he saw that the Graham Street market that he used to visit when he was a child was transformed into luxury houses. The same place. Only small shops in the community can create the character of a region. If those old shops are not taken over by the city, or they are overturned by the city and become chain stores, it will be difficult to connect the human touch of the neighborhood.” So he spent two years traveling between Central and Sheung Wan The old shops and the Graham Street Market, sketched for small shops, and recorded his favorite old streets.
This is the story of three Hong Kong people of different ages and backgrounds enjoying this oasis next to Central with three faces.
Legend has it that in the early years of Hong Kong's opening, there were 30 private houses on the hillside of Victoria City. The houses are lit at night to guide the fishing boats home. According to literature records, everyone called this place Sanjian.
The tenement buildings that were lit back then gradually turned into high-rise buildings to surround the place. Chenghuang Street and Wing Lee Street, where "The Thief of Time" was filmed in 2010, were originally included in the scope of reconstruction. However, because the owners of Nos. 17 to 19, Shing Wong Street insisted not to sell the buildings, this place became a "time-space gap in Central" that retains the feeling of 1940. After the film was screened, it also aroused everyone's reluctance to the old community, which turned into a conservation plan for this community. The streets have been repaired cleanly, and the neighbors also have the consciousness to protect this century-old block.
If Aberdeen Street is used as the boundary, Shing Wong Street belongs to Sheung Wan. A 70-year-old tenement building in the center of the street was renovated in the early years, with green floor-to-ceiling subway grilles and a small terrace. The morning sun slips into the house through the shadow of the trees, and the birds are stealing the herbs on the terrace. Residents live between Central and Sheung Wan, who would have imagined that looking out of the window, the IFC in Central is within easy reach.
Taura from the United States has lived in Hong Kong for 23 years. She has lived in subdivided flats and lofts. When she lived in a single private building on Aberdeen Street, 200 feet away, she had already taken a fancy to this 70-year-old building surrounded by tall buildings. Old Tanglou. Two years ago, I finally had the opportunity to rent one of the units. Although there is no fiber optic here, the pipes are aging and must be used carefully. Every time I go home, I walk up or down hundreds of stairs: "Indeed, I have to calculate the itinerary every time I go shopping , should I go up the stairs to Jiandao first, and then go around Luoshan and take the stairs back after shopping, or is it the other way around? But now I can carry 15kg of things back at a time, and my physical strength is fine, but I don’t wear high heels anymore.”
Vincent grew up in Central, but his friends always asked him, "Where is the place to live in Central?" Li "Shi Dongpo Cultural Scholars", on the surface, is a small shop selling vintage items. In fact, they hold art exhibitions, book signings, screenings here from time to time, and also consign new works of cultural people. He will set up tables and chairs in the middle of the stairs, and neighbors will pass by, or they will sit down and drink water when they are tired from walking, and then chat together. He believes that to preserve a community naturally, as long as the old streets and old houses are repaired and the residents are allowed to live freely, a shop with human touch and vitality will naturally be bred.
Vincent enjoys a slow life in Central, while Alvin, who lives in Kowloon, falls in love with the nostalgic and quiet neighborhood of Central and Sheung Wan. He confessed that when he was a child, he never felt the beauty of these old streets and alleys, but when he returned from studying abroad, he saw that the Graham Street market that he used to visit when he was a child was transformed into luxury houses. The same place. Only small shops in the community can create the character of a region. If those old shops are not taken over by the city, or they are overturned by the city and become chain stores, it will be difficult to connect the human touch of the neighborhood.” So he spent two years traveling between Central and Sheung Wan The old shops and the Graham Street Market, sketched for small shops, and recorded his favorite old streets.
This is the story of three Hong Kong people of different ages and backgrounds enjoying this oasis next to Central with three faces.
/ 中上環城皇街最Chill 40年代唐樓 露台被老樹覆蓋仿如「綠洲」 傳說香港開埠初年，維多利亞城的山坡上有30間民房。