07/09/2026
Salvaging some classic 1950s encaustic cement tiles (花階磚) from a Hong Kong industrial building being demolished for yet another glass-and-steel high-rise.
Any city gets what it admires, will pay for, and, ultimately, deserves. Hong Kong could not keep these buildings standing, so it is getting another tower. We will probably be judged not by the monuments we build but by those we have destroyed