The Central Market building features a distinctive Bauhaus style with horizontal bands of windows and rounded corners that contrast sharply with the neighboring glass skyscrapers. Opened in nineteen thirty-nine, it served as the city’s…
Mid-Levels Escalator Walk
This walk climbs the world's longest covered outdoor escalator system to see how modern transit shaped a vertical neighborhood. We'll trace the hillside slopes past historic markets, cultural complexes, and hidden alleyways.
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1. Central Market
2. Graham Street Market
The Graham Street Market is defined by the steep, narrow incline of the street itself, crowded with green metal stalls and baskets overflowing with bok choy, fresh ginger, and live seafood. Established in eighteen forty-one, it remains the…
3. Tai Cheong Bakery
The yellow butter cookies and the glossy, golden egg tarts stacked in the window mark Tai Cheong Bakery on Lyndhurst Terrace. For decades, it served as the daily breakfast stop for workers and residents in the neighborhood. In nineteen…
4. Tai Kwun
Tai Kwun is defined by its massive, granite-walled compound that occupies an entire city block, separating the colonial architecture of the Central Police Station from the frantic pace of the streets outside. This site functioned as the…
5. Rednaxela Terrace
Rednaxela Terrace features a series of grey stone retaining walls and steep, narrow staircases climbing the hillside. The name is a curious reversal of Alexander. A Portuguese merchant named Alexander originally owned the land and built…
6. Jamia Mosque
The Jamia Mosque features a bright white facade and arched windows that distinguish it from the dense glass and steel skyscrapers surrounding it on Old Bailey Street. Built in eighteen ninety, it serves as the oldest mosque in Hong Kong.…
7. Mid-level escalators (upper starting point)
The Central-Mid-Levels Escalator system holds the title of the longest outdoor covered escalator system in the world. It stretches over eight hundred meters from the street level of Queen's Road Central up to Conduit Road. Built in…