“[It is] important…to conserve the
community and not just the building.”
The Blue House Conservation Project was coined as a living heritage
in Hong Kong. It is the first successful community-driven effort
to transform a “conserved” building into an anchor space for the
community instead of yet another shopping facility. Prof Ng shares
how non-profit organisation St James Settlement and the close-knitted
tenants were key in conserving the building’s way of community living
and not just its façade in this unique revitalisation process.
Interviewee
Prof Ng Mee Kam
Vice-Chairman,
Geography and Resource Management,
Chinese University of Hong Kong