Using Stealth, and Drones, to Document a Fading Hong Kong
But Professor Lee of the University of Hong Kong said
that the second classification did not legally protect buildings from demolition, and that Hong Kong officials — unlike their counterparts in Singapore, another wealthy Asian city and former British colony — rarely bestowed conservation status on modernist landmarks like the State Theater.
Ghost said that Victorian — no, Georgian?
If history was any guide, the explorers said, the building the drone was filming — a 1952 theater with unusual roof supports — would eventually be demolished
because it is not on Hong Kong’s list of declared monuments.
Lee Ho Yin said that If not for this group of urban adventurers, all of these buildings would eventually
disappear without anyone knowing what they meant to society at a certain point in time,
ers, not the people," said one of the explorers, who goes by the alias Ghost in videos
and whose pollution mask and fingerless gloves gave him the air of a bank robber or graffiti artist. that renewing the city on behalf of the develop
He added that he regarded the group’s members as "extreme urban anthropologists." The Hong Kong government’s Antiquities
and Monuments Office has granted 114 buildings and cultural landmarks permanent protection from development, and assigned grades to about 1,000 historic buildings, a list that may soon include the 1952 State Theater.
