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Title
  • Lui Seng Chun

Alternative Title
  • 雷生春

Date
  • 2004-04-29

Description
  • Grade 1 historic buildings confirmed in 2009

  • "Lui Seng Chun is an old Chinese shophouse (tong lau) originally owned by Mr. Lui Leung, a renowned businessman who moved to Hong Kong from Taishan county in Guangdong province. Designed and built by architect W.H. Bourne, the building was completed in 1931 with a total gross floor area of 600 square metres. Typical of all tong laus at the time, the ground floor of the four-storey building was used as shops while the upper floors were used as dwellings.

    Since the 1960s, the Lui family began to move out of the building as the family continued to grow in size. The building became vacant in the 1970s. In 2000, the Antiquities Advisory Board designated Lui Seng Chun a Grade I historic building. With the vision of preserving the building and to contribute to society, the Lui family decided to donate the building to the Government in the same year.

    The Lui Seng Chun building was included in Batch I of the "Revitalising Historic Buildings Through Partnership Scheme" initiated by the Government in 2008 and, after a bidding process, Hong Kong Baptist University was selected to conserve the building and convert it into a Chinese medicine healthcare centre. The revitalisation work was completed in early 2012 and the clinic, Hong Kong Baptist University School of Chinese Medicine – Lui Seng Chun, commenced operations in April 2012.

    In terms of heritage conservation, every effort was made to retain the original architectural features as far as possible. Necessary alterations and addition works were carried out in compliance with modern buildings and fire regulations as well as meeting the operational needs of the clinic. In the process, the University adhered to the basic principle of minimising the impact of the alterations while ensuring that all alterations could be reversed if necessary.

    雷亮先生早年自廣東台山縣移居香港,其後聘請建築師布爾設計及興建舖居大宅 — 雷生春。大宅於1931年落成,樓高四層,總面積約600平方米,上層為住所,地面為店舖。

    自60年代開始,雷氏家族成員人口漸增,相繼遷離,至70年代大宅空置。2000年,古物諮詢委員會評定雷生春為一級歷史建築,雷氏後人為保存故居並回饋社會,同年決定把雷生春捐予政府。

    2008年政府將雷生春納入第一期《活化歷史建築伙伴計劃》,香港浸會大學最終成功獲選,將雷生春改建為中醫藥保健中心。活化工程於2012年初竣工。同年四月,香港浸會大學中醫藥學院 — 雷生春堂正式投入服務。

    就文物保育而言,浸大在活化雷生春過程中,盡量保留原有的建築特色,並作出適量改裝增建,以應付未來雷生春堂的營運需求及符合現時建築及消防條例的要求。在活化過程中,浸大堅守的原則是把改動帶來的影響減至最低,而所有改動均可在需要時還原。" -- HKBU SCM Lui Seng Chun website

Based near label
  • Yau Tsim Mong

  • Kowloon

Source
  • The images are digitized by Pao Yue-Kong Library

Resource Type
Format
  • image/jpeg

  • Photographs

Extent
  • Source format: 45 image files

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Identifier
  • Call No.: NA7123 .L85

  • Master #: 2004-010