A6 Hong Kong Street View Postcard - Sham Shui Po| A6 香港街景明信片 - 深水埗
深水埗唐樓 Tong Lau at Sham Shui Po
📍 海壇街276號
📍 276, Hoi Tan Street, Hong Kong
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深水埗是往日九龍的工業重鎮,紡織和五金業的興旺吸納了許多的勞動人口,週邊的唐樓因而成為眾多工人階級的棲身之所。圖中的唐樓位於海壇街,是一棟典型4層高的商住樓宇,地舖的位置保留了閣樓的空間,前舖後居的設計是舊日老店的映照。樓房破爛的水管、日久失修的外牆、外露的晾衫架和雜亂不堪的天線,成為了這個城市獨特的庶民風景。這些老舊的唐樓由於缺乏監管,不少單位早已淪為劏房或籠屋出租,居住環境可謂極度擠逼。在市區重建的步伐下,現址已於2022年拆卸。
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。