Stefan Irvine,’Wah Fu Estate’, Pok Fu Lam 2016
Stefan Irvine,’Wah Fu Estate’, Pok Fu Lam 2016
Stefan Irvine - The Last Tong Lau
’Wah Fu Estate’, Pok Fu Lam
Photographs taken in 2016, digital collage completed in 2017
Archival Pigment Print
Prints are signed by artist on print below the image.
Small: Image size about H25x102cm
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Limited edition of 18 + 2 APs
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Wah Fu Estate, Pok Fu Lam ｜ 華富邨，薄扶林
Completed almost 50 years ago in 1968, Wah On House is part of the larger Wah Fu Estate, a public housing development near Aberdeen, on the south-west coast of Hong Kong Island. The first of its kind, the estate was conceived as a New Town project for low-income families, and was designed to foster a sense of community, with integrated services such as schools, a market, banks, restaurants and a public library. This panorama shows the remarkably high-density nature of Hong Kong’s public housing, as well as some of the facilities still available today, such as convenience stores, grocers, an electrical goods shop, and an off-site betting branch of The Hong Kong Jockey Club.
In recent years the ageing estate has fallen into disrepair and many of its residents have been waiting for the government’s help to move to newer and better homes. In 2014, it was announced in the Chief Executive’s policy address that Wah Fu Estate would be redeveloped, and that the 26,000 remaining residents would be rehoused in new public housing developments nearby.
華安樓建於1968年，約50年前完工，位於香港島西南海岸，在香港仔附近的公營房屋發展項目 - 華富邨的一部分。這個項目是首次為低收入家庭設定的新市鎮計劃，旨在培養社區意識，提供綜合服務如學校、街市、銀行、餐館及公共圖書館。這幅全景圖顯現出香港公共屋邨的高密度特徵，以及一些仍廣泛被使用的設施如便利店、雜貨店、電器商店及香港賽馬會場外投注處。
近年來，高樓齡的公共屋邨老化問題日益嚴重，許多居民一直在等待政府提供協助，希望獲派到更新更好的單位。在2014年，行政長官的施政報告宣布華富邨將會進行重建，當中剩餘的26,000名居民將獲配置到附近的新建公共屋邨發展項目內。
