SPD4459 Destinations - Wing Lee Street 永利街

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Wing Lee Wing Lee, What is Wing Lee?

Wing Lee Street buildings contains  currently unique and rare architectural features in Central and western district. It has a score of old-style traditional shops.

Repaired buildings in Wing Lee Streets

After Wing Lee Street was acquired by Urban Renewal Authority, some of the flats were being repaired and rent for artists.

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SPD4459 Tang House 唐樓唐樓唐樓 yo

Many Tang House(唐樓) are located in there! If you are interested in 50s, 60s Hong Kong, It is definitely a good place to for a look.

Wing Lee Street has been incorporated into the Urban Renewal Authority projects, of which three will retain the original tenement buildings, and the rest for residential redevelopment


Have you even see the movie Echoes of the Rainbow (歲月神偷)? The movie that got the Berlin Film Festival Hong Kong firm award!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This movie choose Wing Lee Street for 
framing.

Bridges Street Market
必列者士街街市

This is Bridges Street Market that is next to Wing Lee Street. It wasbuilt in 1953, which is the first market was bulit in cement in Honh Kong. This is a Bauhaus style(包浩斯風格) historical building that pay attention to the functional and simple look. It is going to revitalized to become the News Expo in 2016.

The playgound next to Bridges Street Market

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Location:Wing Lee Street in Sheung Wan
Transport:MTR
Starting point: the MTR Central Station  

Walked along Hillier Street Lane, turn left at the corner staircase 

Required: about 5 minutes

Please visit http://www.hkac.org.hk/artisthomebase/tc/ and http://travel.ulifestyle.com.hk/DetailSpot.php?id=ADMRZBEoA3w to get more information ! !

Posted by SPD4459 Internet Marketing and Public Relations student - Gavin

SPD4459 Destinations - PMQ 元創坊 x 特色到喊既太平山街 Tai Ping Shan Street ! ! !

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Hello ! This is Piggie again ! ! !

I visited PMQ 元創坊 in Central on last Saturday night. It was a police married quarters (已婚警察宿舍) for married junior police offiers, which was closed since 2000.

It is now being transform to a creative industries landmark called PMQ, therefore creating a platform in Hong Kong's creative industies.

Shops in PMQ 元創坊 

The corridor in each floors~
PMQ裡面既走廊

PMQ includes 2 blocks of bulidings and a platform on ground floor. Those flats become studios and shops nowadays. Each of them are unique and artistic as they rent for artists from different countries. PMQ is a platform for artists to share their masterpiece and ideas with public. 

Pandas 1600 in PMQ
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PMQ holds myraids of programmes and events in every months. As I know that they are going to hold performance and gourment market in Halloween ! ! ! ! ! 好驚驚呀! ! So Scary ! !

By the way, when I went to PMQ on last Saturday, there was held an event called "Oktoberfest". It is a beer festival and people can taste differents types of beers and foods! 

PMQ既獨有Signs~

PMQ元創坊平台~

The atmosphere was nice and the beer competition was so exciting !

The video was taken by me, let's take a look !

The art works ~

As you can see that the art works are meaningful and representable. Moreover, the organization did well in histroic preservation. You can still see lots of  heritage design in that building. 

Windows in  round shape
古式圓形窗戶

The Letterbox
以前既信箱~

After that, I went to Tai Ping Shan street. It is differ from other places in Central. Lots of gallaries, boutiques and cafe are located in there. You may feel relax when you walked through the street as it has its own culure. The buildings on the both side of the street are in old architecture. However, the stores are trendy and fashionable. You can see that when the old buildings crossover with trendy culture and they match each other ! ! ! It is unbelieveable !好難觸摸呀!!

Antiques shop in Tai Ping Shan Street 

太平山街既特色古董商店

How to get there?

PMQ: 

You can go there by mtr, get off at Sheung Wan Station and find Exit E2. 

After that, you can walk along the Wellington Street and turn left of Aberdeen Street.

Walk through the street until you see PMQ on your right hand side

首先坐地鐵於上環E2出口上路面

然後沿威靈頓街向上行，再轉右

接上鴨巴甸街再向上行約5分鐘

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太平山街 Tai Ping Shan Street



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Please visit http://www.pmq.org.hk/ to get more information ! !

Posted by SPD4459 Internet Marketing and Public Relations student - Alfred

SPD4459 Central Police Station 舊中區警處

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What is that building? It is in white color........ Does the white house relocated to Hong Kong?

Ohhhhhh! ! This is the Central Police Station (中區警署) located in Hollywood Road !

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It is built in 1864, it is a four-storey building constructed adjacent to Victoria Prison. They are the group of historical architecture representing law and order in Hong Kong.

Central Police Station is a historical building with of Edwardian architecture (愛德華式建築) in Central, it built with cement and red brick.

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It can be seen that the building was built during the colonial period (殖民地時期). There are stoas (拱廊) and pillars of Ancient Greek Architecture (古希臘式的大柱) in each floor.

The government shutdown the Central Police Station in 2005 and revitalised the building for leisure and business purpose. It is going to open for the public at the end of 2014.

After that, I went to see the graffiti that is famous in Central. Actually, it was drew on the wall next to the "Goods of Desire(住好D)" store in Hollywood Road. The column of rectangles are the flats that represents Hong Kong is overcrowded as many people are living there. This graffiti is well-known as many youngsters and photographers come and take photos.

Please visit http://www.centralpolicestation.org.hk/ch/the-project/index.asp to get more information ! !

Posted by SPD4459 Internet Marketing and Public Relations student - Alfred