Hong kong house

Not all buildings in HK are gleaming towers

An affordable-housing crisis has led to young people, the elderly, and families all living in squalid conditions to stay afloat.

But they're not some project in urban microhousing. These minuscule dwellings are the result of poor workers trying to find a place to live in the city's booming real estate market.

L’organisation Society for Community a imaginé avec l’agence Publicis HK cette campagne baptisée « Hong Kong Apartment From Above » pour déno

Kowloon Walled City was known as an enclave for criminals, but that only tells one side of the story. The informal settlement also had a thriving economy.

Award-winning German photographer Michael Wolf passed away this week on Cheung Chau aged 64. HKFP shares his series on the city’s disappearing corner houses, courtesy of Blue Lotus Gallery. Following on from Architecture of Density, Wolf’s corner house collection examines an often underappreciated phenomenon. These charming, residential-commercial buildings of the 1950s and ’60s are often […]

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Coffin Homes of Hong Kong ⚰️ Coffin homes in Hong Kong are extremely small, subdivided living spaces, often as tiny as 15 square feet, resembling coffins in size and shape. These units are a result of the city’s severe housing shortage and high real estate prices. Residents, many of whom are low-income workers, endure cramped and often unsanitary conditions, lacking privacy and proper ventilation. Coffin homes highlight the stark inequality and housing crisis in one of the world’s most e...

What it's like to live in cubicles and cages.