Data Point related to: ELEMENT
General Post Office
The General Post Office (GPO), the headquarters of Hongkong Post, was built in 1976 and is located at Connaught Place, Central, Hong Kong. Originally situated at the seafront, the building is now inland due to reclamation works completed after 2007. It is adjacent to Jardine House and the International Finance Centre, and was once near the former Star Ferry Pier.
Scheduled for demolition in 2018, efforts are being made to preserve the GPO as a historical landmark. The building was constructed on reclaimed land, with the government originally planning a 30-storey structure in 1967, allocating 5 floors for the GPO and 25 for government offices.
Hongkong Land secured the site directly to the south at a record price. In exchange, the government agreed that no building would be constructed to the north of Connaught Centre (now Jardine House) to obstruct its views, limiting the GPO’s height to 120 feet.
Designed by architect K. M. Tseng, the GPO consists of five floors, with a foundation designed to support two additional floors, though it never reached this height. The building also features Hong Kong’s first central vacuum-cleaning system, which does not require bag changes.
Type of Data Point - Basic Data Point - Source Wikipedia
General Post Office, Hong Kong - Wikipedia
Visit page of the element - General Post Office
Inserted: 10-12-2024 21:12:31
Questions related to this Data Point
How did the General Post Office introduce innovative technology with its central vacuum-cleaning system?
How did the General Post Office’s design address future expansion?
How did the reclamation works impact the location of the General Post Office?
What role did Hongkong Land’s acquisition of land south of the General Post Office play in its development?
What was the government’s reasoning behind limiting the height of the General Post Office?
Why is there a push to preserve the General Post Office as a historical landmark despite the demolition plan?
Contexts related to this Data Point
Architecture in the city
Map of Hong Kong
People related to this Data Point
No People found
Entities related to this Data Point
No Entities found
Words related to this Data Point
No Words found
Dates/Years/Periods related to this Data Point
Image Gallery
Credits: Baycrest, CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons
Other Data Points
This is the site of a former public laundry located at the stream under the wall to the right of Oesammun (the outer three gates) of New Seonwonjeon Shrine at Changdeokgung Palace. A two-hol ...
Woljeong-ri station is a closed railway station on the Gyeongwon Line in South Korea. It was closed by the Korean War. It is a noted place in the Korean Demilitarized Zone. The building can ...
The Transilvania University of Brașov, often stylized as UniTBv or UNITBV, stands as a prominent higher education and research institution situated in Brașov, Romania. Comprising 18 facultie ...
The ruins of the funerary monument known as the Columbarium lie outside Butrint circuit of walls and close to the Lion Gate. First excavated in the 1930s by the Italian archaeologist Luigi M ...
The Maritime Museum, housed in the 19th-century Gabrielli Palace near Piran harbor, is dedicated to preserving and showcasing maritime heritage and related aspects of the Slovenian territory ...
