Conservation of Courage and Beverage:The Conservation and Adaptive Re-use of the Little Hong Kong Project
On the Christmas Eve of 1941, Chinese and Western soldiers courageously stood side by side to defend a group of ammunition bunkers in the deep valleys of Hong Kong before it fell into the hands of invading Japanese.Sixty years later, these bunkers once again, proudly re-opened their doors to the public, after being carefully restored and Adaptive Re-used as wine cellars and a clubhouse.These bunkers are amongst the numerous structures known as War Architecture in Asia associated with the Pacific War, which had been mostly neglected.With a glass of fine wine, the people of this modern multicultural metropolis of Hong Kong can now appreciate the architecture of this well engineered structure, and celebrate the peace hard earned through the turbulent history of modem Asia.This essay explains the history and architecture of these bunkers, and explains why this conservation project can point to the direction of raising the awareness of the value shared by modern Asians.
Bunkers War Architecture in Asia Adaptive Re-use
CHENG Hung
Department of Architecture, South China University of Technology
国内会议
西安
英文
223-227
2013-10-08（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）