Whampoa Garden (traditional Chinese: ????; simplified Chinese: ????; Jyutping: wong4 bou3 faa1 jyun4; pinyin: Huángp? Hu?yuán) is the largest private housing estate located in Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong. It was built on the site of the former Whampoa Dockyards by Hutchison Whampoa Property. The urban design of the estate incorporates concepts inspired by the Garden city movement and was completed in 1991.
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Features
The estate covers 19 hectares and consists of 12 complexes. Ten are residential/commercial mixed use, with a total of 88 16-storey residential high-rise towers. The other two are solely commercial use. There was a height restriction on the buildings due to its proximity to the Kai Tak Airport at the time. It includes eight shopping arcades, three supermarkets, a cinema, hundreds of restaurants and shops, a karaoke, five primary schools, mini-parks and two public transport interchange.
There are 10,431 flats, ranging from 351 to 1,110 square feet (32.6 to 103.1 m2), in the 88 residential towers. The estimated population of the estate is over 40,000.
Notable commercial outlets include the first ParknShop Hong Kong Superstore, which was opened in 1996 in Whampoa Garden Phase 12 with a floor space of 4,200 square metres (45,000 sq ft); as of 2011, there are over 50 superstores in Hong Kong. Also, The Whampoa is a 110 metres (360 ft)-long boat-shaped shopping centre built in the original No. 1 Dry Dock, in Phase 6. During the 1980s and 1990s, the structure housed a playground on the top and "deck" level, seafood restaurants, a cinema on other floors above ground levels; the department store Yaohan on ground and basement level, and an indoor family theme park (????) with an arcade game centre and a roller skating rink on lower basement level. In late 1990s, the department store was taken over by JUSCO department store. The JUSCO department store was renamed to AEON in 2013, to be consistent with the name change adopted by its parent company in Japan. In May 2016, the department store was renovated and renamed as AEON STYLE after its reopening in September the same year.
There is also a promenade along sea side, from Laguna Verde to Hung Hom Ferry Pier. It is also linked to the Avenue of Stars. One can walk from Hunghom Pier to Tsim Sha Tsui Pier in about 40 minutes.
Maps Whampoa Garden
Complexes
Demographic
Apart from the majority Cantonese population, Whampoa and its surrounding area also has a significant Japanese immigrants and expatriate population. The area occupies only approximately 0.02% (1.5 km sq) of Hong Kong's total land area, but accounts for 12.7% of the entire Japanese citizen population in Hong Kong, according to the 2011 Hong Kong Census and Consulate-General of Japan in Hong Kong. Most of the Japanese residents resides in phase five, where the Japanese department store - AEON STYLE is located.
Transportation
- MTR
- Hung Hom Station: Terminus for both the East Rail Line and the West Rail Line
- Whampoa Station: Terminus of Kwun Tong Line
- Ferry
- Hunghom to North Point
- Buses and minibuses
References
External links
- Emporis: Whampoa Garden
- Location of Whampoa Garden
- S.K. Hui, A. Cheung, J. Pang, "A Hierarchical Bayesian Approach for Residential Property Valuation:Application to Hong Kong Housing Market" (Archive), International Real Estate Review, 2010 Vol. 13 No.1: pp. 1 - 29
- Yu, Pui-kwan Robin (C: ???, J: jyu4 pui3 gwan1, P: Yú Pèik?n), "A study on quasi-public space in large scale private residential development, case in Hong Kong", University of Hong Kong, 2007 (Archive)
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