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Hello I Must Be Going

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Dec 06, 2006
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Shek Kip Mei is where Hong Kong’s first public housing was built. The original, utilitarian seven-storey housing blocks were built in the shape of an “H”, with residential flats at the two flanks and the toilets and washrooms placed on a bridge in between. For more than 50 years, these thoroughly functionalist buildings came to represent an important mi…

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