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The 360° videos of Jockey Club’s “How Memory Sticks” Arts Education Programme are now available online! The series first introduces Hong Kong’s Court of Final Appeal Building and St. John's Cathedral which are located in the heart of Central, witnessing the development of Hong Kong throughout the past hundred years. However, do you know these Western looking buildings actually contain quite a lot of design elements with Chinese and Hong Kong characteristics?
The Court of Final Appeal Building, built in 1912, was once the Supreme Court of Hong Kong and occupied by the Legislative Council of Hong Kong. The building was built in a Neoclassical architecture style. Although the exterior design of the building imitates the architectural styles of ancient Greece and Rome, its overhead roof is covered by double-layered Chinese tiles. Moreover, the sweeping arcades, as well as the expansive balconies, are designed to prevent direct sunlight from shining into the Building and to diffuse heat under the sub-tropical climate of Hong Kong!
St. John's Cathedral, built in 1849, is the oldest surviving Western ecclesiastical building in Hong Kong that was designed in the popular revivalist style for churches at the time. Most specially, pictures of fishing boats, fisherwomen and marine police officers can be found on the stained glass windows in the church that showed scenes of vernacular Hong Kong life.
Click on the link below to enjoy the 360° videos of the Hong Kong’s Court of Final Appeal Building and St. John's Cathedral produced by Jockey Club’s “How Memory Sticks” Arts Education Programme! Please stay tuned for the updates of “Architecture 360” series in order to know more about the interesting architectures in Hong Kong!
The Court of Final Appeal Building:
St. John's Cathedral:
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賽馬會「看得見的記憶」藝術教育計劃360°影片面世了！系列先介紹屹立中環核心地段、見證香港百年發展歷程的香港終審法院大樓及聖約翰座堂。你又知道這些充滿西方韻味的建築，其實蘊藏了不少中式及香港的特色嗎？
曾是香港最高法院及立法會大樓的終審法院大樓建於1912年，屬新古典主義的建築風格。雖然外觀仿效古希臘及羅馬的建築設計，但它的屋頂原來由中式兩層瓦片鋪設而成，而且建築外部特設寬闊的陽台，阻止陽光直射室內，這些都是因應香港亞熱帶氣候而設計、便於散熱的建築特色！
聖約翰座堂則是香港現存最古老的西式基督教會建築物，於1849年落成，是當時流行於教會的復古主義設計。最特別是，教堂內的彩繪玻璃窗上，竟鑲有充滿香港特色的漁船、漁家女和水警。
即到以下連結細心欣賞「賽馬會『看得見的記憶』藝術教育計劃」製作的360°影片──參觀香港終審法院大樓及聖約翰座堂！想發掘更多有趣的香港建築小知識，就必須要繼續留意《建築360》系列了！
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