A6 Hong Kong Street View Postcard - Yau Ma Tei Fruit Market (Color) | A6 香港街景明信片 - 油麻地果欄 (彩色)

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The Yau Ma Tei Fruit Market, officially Yau Ma Tei Wholesale Fruit Market, also simply known as the Fruit Market, is a wholesale fruit market in Yau Ma Tei, Kowloon, Hong Kong. It is known as gwo laan (果欄) in Cantonese. gwo (果) means fruit while laan (欄) means wholesale market, derived from railing and enclosed area.

Founded in 1913, the market is a historically valuable site and is classified as a Grade II Historic Building since 2009. It consists of several blocks of one or two storey brick and stone buildings. Pre-World War II signboards are on the outer walls of the buildings.

油麻地果欄（英語：Yau Ma Tei Wholesale Fruit Market），原名為九龍水果批發市場（Kowloon Wholesale Fruit Market），亦常簡稱作「果欄」，是香港主要水果批發市場，位於九龍油麻地。

建於1913年, 1990年，果欄被古物諮詢委員會列為香港三級歷史建築，於2009年12月18日改列為香港二級歷史建築。裏面的建築採用裝飾藝術風格（Art Deco），較明顯見於屋頂水磨石招牌的設計[3]及窗戶上方之懸臂簷篷（eyebrow），而招牌亦使用了舊式立體書法字。

Size : 105 x148 mm

Paper : 350 gsm drawing paper

Who's Paper with Pen?

Michael of Paper with Pen was born and raised in Hong Kong, currently working in the architectural field in London. He has a deep passion in urban sketching from cityscape of downtown alleyways to local corner shops. "Recording our urban environment
through art is not only crucial to the creation of inhabitable space in a city, it also represents our sense of identity of a place."

Michael of Paper with Pen 是一個香港土生土長，正於英國工作的建築設計師，對於城市的建築和人文風景有濃厚的興趣。他希望透過日常的繪畫，記錄我們身邊眾多轉瞬即逝
的平凡街景，並從此探討城市多變的面貌。