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expanses of glass held in steel frames on the elevation, and long horizontal streamlined bands of windows. The adoption of reinforced concrete post-and-slab construction with flat slab floors and a flat roof-slab carried on concrete columns has created room for free planning. Partitions could be erected freely as desired, as they played no part in the structure bearing function of the building.
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Also on display were several copies of newspapers published during the occupation period, which were provided by Hong Kong resident Mr David Ma. A seminar on the press during the occupation was held after the exhibition's opening ceremony. Speakers included Dr Joseph Ting Sun-pao, Mr Cheng Po-hung, Prof
Clement So and Mr Cheng Ming-yan.
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Foundation Hong Kong Limited. The proposal aims to re-purpose the historic building to accommodate Hong Kong News-Expo, which will become an education-cum-exhibition facility for media education activities that would enhance both local and overseas visitors’ understanding of the Hong Kong news media.
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Hong Kong News-Expo held an exhibition and a seminar on Hong Kong newspapers during the
Japanese Occupation at the G7 Centre, Wing Lee Street, in March 2016. Copies of newspapers published on December 25, 1941, when Hong Kong fell to the Japanese, and in 1945, when Japan surrendered, were displayed.
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Bridges Street Market was built after the Second World War on the recommendation of the then Urban
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The market is located in a very old part of
Central with deep historical connections to the Hong Kong press. Most of the city's earliest newspapers set up their first offices there. Shing Wong Street, Gough Street and Wing Lee Street in the vicinity were known as the “Printers’ Streets" because of
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Legislative Council's Finance Committee approved the allocation of HK$ 85.3 million for the revitalisation project. The venue has a total floor area of about 10,000 square feet. Hong Kong News-Expo was opened to the public on the 6th of December 2018. Its exhibits chronicle the
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was classified as a Grade III historic building in
September 2011. It was later included in Batch III of the Revitalising Historic Buildings Through Partnership Scheme. In February 2013, the Development Bureau announced that it had accepted the revitalisation proposal submitted by the Journalism
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School of Art in the 1920s. The architectural style's main characteristics, which can also be found in the market, include asymmetry, severe blocky cubic shapes, smooth flat plain undecorated surfaces often painted white, the complete elimination of all mouldings and ornament, flat roofs, large
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Bridges Street Market will retain its original
Bauhaus-style architectural design. The market's main staircases, poultry scalding room and some existing stalls will be kept for their representation of social and historical values. A lift will be built to provide unobstructed access to Wing Lee
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at No. 2, Bridges Street in Central District, Hong Kong Island. The heritage building was among the first batch of public markets built after the end of World War II and was opened in 1953. The building sits partly on the former site of the American Congregational Mission Preaching Hall, where
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evolution of Hong Kong's news media, present the city's political, economic and social transformations through contemporary news reports, and demonstrate the importance of the free flow of information as a cornerstone of Hong Kong's success.
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A three-storey utilitarian building, Bridges Street Market is a reinforced concrete frame structure built in the International Modernist style generally accepted as originated in Germany by the
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Street. The rubbish collection station adjacent to the market will be demolished. The original uphill vista of the staircases at Shing Wong Street leading to the Mid-Levels will be restored.
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first floor 33 selling beef, pork, fruit and vegetables. In 1969, part of the first floor was turned into a children's playground and two footbridges were built to link the building with
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remainder of the elevation is a plain painted rendered wall featuring two horizontal streamlined bands of windows with projected horizontal sun-shading concrete fins.
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