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Hong Kong’s Blue House Cluster won a top international award for heritage conservation, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government said in a press release on Wednesday.
Blue House Cluster is located in Wan Chai, Hong Kong's
busy commercial area filled with office workers and shoppers.
It is the first time a built heritage conservation project in Hong Kong has received this award.
"The award not only recognizes our efforts in heritage conservation, but also proves that our adaptive re-use of government-owned historic buildings is up to international standards," said a spokesman for the Commissioner for Heritage's Office of the Development Bureau of the HKSAR government.
The Blue House Cluster (BHC).
The Blue House Cluster comprises three tenement buildings constructed from the 1920s to the 1950s - the Blue House, the Yellow House and the Orange House.
The compound has been revitalized into Viva Blue House, a multi-functional complex providing residential accommodation and community services.
The jury of the UNESCO Asia-Pacific Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation selected Blue House Cluster as the winner of the Award of Excellence from 43 submissions.
Spacial graph of the BHC.
Launched in 2000, the UNESCO Asia-Pacific Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation aim to recognize and encourage conservation and restoration projects under private initiatives and public-private partnership in the Asia-Pacific region.
(ASIA PACIFIC DAILY)
