Proposed HKU Graduate Residence - a disappointment
Archi tectural Critique: Stodgy Design Overtly Arrogant The Proposed Conversion to Hon Wah Middle School for a HKU Graduate Residence 1. I used to live on the Ching Lin Terrace, Kennedy Town, West end Hong Kong. 2. Architecturally, the former Hon Wah Middle School is an eye-sore. Socially, it used to be “the place” neighbors dreaded for fear of unannounced catastrophes. It used to housed a tightly knitted group of “puritans” who were characteristically un-Hong Kong. During the height of the civil commotion in the mid-sixties it was where extremists barricaded themselves to seek self inflicted torture, and where neighbors whisked away the kids, worrying that somehow a home-made-bomb might explode or a shooting war might erupt between the law enforcement and the leftist – by no means derogatory. 3. Life moves on, and the Terrace has experienced subtle changes that are cumulatively for the better. Ching Lin Terrace is the best kept secret in Hong Kong; it is where