Sham Shui Po: here on the Hong Kong dialect is very positive (Photos)

Shamshuipo Kowloon Peninsula west, is a new immigrant more. The movie "peach elder sister" is here in the viewfinder. The last century sixty or seventy's, the manufacturing industry and the family of light industry flourished, and the Shek Kip Mei factory building is the "copycat factory" intensively. Later the industrial north, leads to a "dying in deep water". Since then, here the cultural industry to activate the old community. As a "upstairs" Art Village, is now welcome visitors and see them off.

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"Are you really here?" Experimental theatre "cheerleaders" producer Miss Chen asked me, as if this place if not intentional, it is difficult to have a chance encounter. Indeed, if not friends took me to Sham Shui Po District of housing system, I'm afraid I'll miss out on that little loopholes of the old port community, also won't visit the Pak Tin Street of the old building -- now the Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre (JCCAC).

JCCAC studio is the original plant

In all black, from the courtyard renovation "black box theater", and the neighborhood watch theatre play, as a pioneer company. The play, two women play an atomic bomb, with the Cantonese to death and Honor: "why don't you go to die? Die, who will remember you." This sentence implies the Sham Shui Po's fate, it is "dying" several times, only to be remembered, then the resurrection.

Shamshuipo Kowloon Peninsula west, administrative division includes the Shek Kip Mei, Lai Chi kok,ChangshaBay, is a new immigrant more. The last century sixty or seventy's, the manufacturing industry and the family of light industry flourished, and the Shek Kip Mei factory building is the "copycat factory" intensively. McDull mother a diligent worker, in these places to createHongkongSpirit. Later, the relocation of industries, leading to a dying Sham Shui Po. The closure of the factory, building vacancy, pedestrians scarce, resident unemployment.

In 2008, the Shek Kip Mei factory building activated into art center to open, the cultural industry to activate the old community. Center design to retain the original stone Kip MEO factory building simple features, the ground is still "concrete" texture, and out of the elevator is in the machine head, such as modern sculpture placed, the original factory name also be retained. The introduction of experimental theater, artists and art institutions, it became a "upstairs" Art Village, is now welcome visitors and see them off.

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After the play, I decided to go to is conservation housing myall floor have a look. From the factory building, out to the south-west direction, after several blocks spalling of the house, looking up at the window, stretched out the clothes airing rod and nursing home sign, just the reaction come over, point to Sham Shui Po is also the movie "peach elder sister", "road movie specially photographed Medical Bureau Street" is also near the. The perspective of the Sham Shui Po, is like an old community. It is the public housing area, but the fortune of the young people had moved out, leaving a lot of over 60 years of age, enjoy the housing recovery immunity, unwilling to new community elderly. "This is not for people who are familiar with Hongkong, I feel warmth between the local residents and businesses, very human." Director Xu Anhua said. Such as movies, old port of public housing in the human in the home, is another way to continue in Sham Shui po.

The deep housing and nursing home is the viewfinder movie "peach elder sister".

Housing, accompanied by the awakening of consciousness of Hongkong local seventy or eighty's with evolution, has become a generation placed collective memory space, is the generation of identity in Hongkong soil cultivation. So when housing evolution is more like modern residential, someone instead said: the evolution of modernization and individualism is not the result well, let people alienated! Housing, is the direct cause of 1950 years that will fire in Sham Shui Po kill. At that time, Sham Shui Po is a immigrant centralized shanty, fire to more than 5 people become destitute and homeless, the British government had to make the lower middle class housing policy.

Sham Shui Po therefore become a testing ground for Hongkong's public housing system, community and living together in situ resurrection of hope. Beautiful lotus building is finally a H migration of existing home building, was built after the fire of the first batch of public housing, public housing demolition and reconstruction at the same time, it began as the Hongkong public housing plan retention, 2008 through the "revitalisation of historic buildings Partnership Program" into a youth hostel. The myall floor now also package Yanyanshishi, only a blueprint on the front, retained the original plain, the building is still on the wall. The hostel is expected by the end of operation, in addition to update the fire set, increase the wheelchair access, the original is in building public space, will set up a transparent viewing elevator, when the two floor will have a "beautiful lotus floor living museum", the exhibition in the public life, also has "old resident myall building network" plan, find the old neighborhood and the old story.

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Another activation building, was built in the 1960's North Kowloon magistracy. The original in Sham Shui Po MTR station export instructions in the "Savannah University of art and design" (SCAD), was abandoned court building. This activation project at the end of last year won the UNESCO Asia-Pacific Heritage Conservation award.

Savannah University of art and design

This first visit, I according to instructions from the side door into, security and then, dressed in a white uniform, dutifully ask me what. The original Monday to five in the morning will be open to the public free navigation, but today the time has passed. Reception staff said Miss H, existing exhibition opening, can you have a look the hall. Turn to push the door, click into place. The new classical style architecture makes full use of natural light, regular rectangular pane scattered, bringing light into the hall. On the left is the exhibition hall, the original is the court staff canteen, on the right is the library, the library counter is now receiving fine counter.

The hall is a similar meeting room place, a comfortable sofa and the students do the Sham Shui Po photography collection. After the exhibition, not know more details I had to leave, but leave the wrong channel (visible they retained the court more complicated channel), into the custody area. Although artistic works and warm lamplight ornament, consciousness is a casual visitor to me, had not approached, it was the prison gates quantui. But I also so determined, must come to participate in tours, listen to the detention area how to reform. The very next day again when visiting, miss H will recognize me, and I finally get to visit the detention area after transformation. One of them remain the same, even the suspect on the wall written together leave; several other in retention of iron based on, hanging curtain, placed into the furniture and decoration, into the office and student lounges, and a as a transit Savannah several campus data room -- "the whole building safety place is of course the detention room, do the room most insurance".

Miss H said, these colors beautiful brick is all "original", in the process of conservation repair, surface was carefully take care of, even once in court people exclaimed, "ah! It is this color, nice". Along with the original is a ladder to a layer, four court. One of them almost didn't change, just add accessories TV necessary as report hall. Three Court roof in the tall, do the studio and 3D studio just photography. A higher is official office place, the interval significantly, do the classroom. Probably because you many, Sham Shui Po once community tours. The route from the magistrates court around Ruzhou street, Keelung street,NanchangStreet area, where can Amoy to the fabric, lace, buttons, beads and other clothing accessories, this is convenient for the family of women work at home, now it, catching the DIY wave; men can go to Taobao Apliu street, where there is called the Hongkong Akihabara Electronics Fair; UN Chau Street, the night cold stores can be found a rare "(" selling English yelling, namely) and community shop, pick up a few water flea; tired,GuilinStreet, Fuk Wing Street restaurants, the price level, a bowl of car Aberdeen face down, suddenly feel, taste of old port, there is.

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