City Hall, Hong Kong

The Hong Kong City Hall (Chinese香港 大会堂) is a building on Edinburgh Place in Central District of Hong Kong in Hong Kong Iceland. Since then, Hong Kong no longer sees as a city, there is no longer a councilor. Therefore, are located in the Town Hall no spaces in the city administration. Instead, the property is used as a library and event complex. The City Hall is operated by the municipal recreation and culture department. The City Council was its predecessor, and met until 1999 in the building.

History

From 1869 to 1933, the first City Hall existed at the current headquarters of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation. From 1866 the building was built by the French architect Maître Hermite on public land. He was based at the Renaissance style and designed inside a theater, museum, a library and a meeting room. Dent & Co. financed a fountain in front of the building. For the inauguration traveled Duke Alfred of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, the Prince of Great Britain and Ireland, personally. 1933, the site was bought by the Hong Kong Bank. 1947 everything was demolished to build the Bank of China Building.

The new complex was completed in 1962 for the City Council and opened by Governor Sir Robert Brown Black. Since 1956, the British architect Ron Phillips and Alan Fitch employed by the organization in the International Style. It played especially freedom of movement and place an important role in planning. The building turned into a venue for the inauguration of the governor. The concert hall and the theater are an important part of the Fine Arts in Hong Kong. Thus, the Hong Kong Festival, Hong Kong Arts Festival 1973, Asian Arts Festival 1976, Hong Kong International Film Festival 1977 and the International Arts Carnival 1982 was held here.

Until 1975, the City Hall office of the Hong Kong Museum of History, to 1991, the Hong Kong Museum of Art, and until 2001 the Hong Kong Central Library. Outside the building, the City Hall Memorial Garden is a shrine for the victims of the Second World War. A total of two buildings fill up the complex.