Whampoa Garden

Whampoa Garden

250px Whampoa Garden
Status	Complete
Constructed	1991
Companies
Developer	Hutchison Whampoa Property Limited (HWP)
Manager	Hutchison Whampoa Limited
Technical details
Buildings	88 buildings in 12 complexes

Whampoa Garden (traditional Chinese: 黃埔花園; simplified Chinese: 黄埔花园; Jyutping: wong4 bou3 faa1 jyun4; pinyin: Huángpǔ Huāyuán) is the largest private housing estate located in Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong. It was built on the site of the former Whampoa Dockyards by Hutchison Whampoa Property. The urban design of the estate incorporates concepts inspired by the Garden city movement and completed in 1991.

Features

The Whampoa
黃埔號
File:Whampoa Garden Overview 201408.jpg The landmark of Whampoa Garden, "The Whampoa" (a ship-shaped shopping centre building)
General information
Status	in use
Address	Whampoa Garden, Hung Hom, Kowloon
Town or city	Whampoa
Country	Hong Kong
Current tenants	Metro Radio, AEON department store and supermarket ,a seafood restaurant, Game Station, Spotlight Recreation Club (gym and swimming pool), etc
Opened	1991
Client	Hutchison Whampoa Limited
Landlord	Hutchison Whampoa Limited
Technical details
Structural system	reinforced concrete
Floor count	6 (top deck, 2/F, 1/F, Ground, Basement 1, Basement 2)
Website
http://www.whampoaworld.com

The estate covers 19 hectares and consists of 12 complexes. Ten are residential/commercial mixed use, with a total of 88 16-storey residential high-rise towers. The other two are solely commercial use. It includes several shopping arcades, two supermarkets, a cinema, dozens of restaurants, five primary schools, shops, recreational facilities (mainly sport) and a public transport interchange.

There are 10,431 flats, ranging from 351 to 1,110 square feet (32.6 to 103.1 m²), in the 88 residential towers. The estimated population of the estate is over 40,000.

Notable commercial outlets include the first ParknShop Hong Kong Superstore, which opened in 1996 in Whampoa Garden Phase 12 with a floor space of 4,200 square metres (45,000 sq ft); as of 2011, there are over 50 superstores in Hong Kong. Also, The Whampoa is a 110 metres (360 ft)-long boat-shaped shopping centre building built in the original No 1 Dry Dock, in Whampoa Garden Phase 6. During the 1980s and 1990s, the structure housed a playground on the top and "deck" level, seafood restaurants, a cinema on other floors above ground levels; the department store Yaohan on ground and basement level, and an indoor family theme park (歡樂天地) with an arcade game centre and a roller skating rink on lower basement level. In late 1990s, the department store was overtaken by JUSCO department store. The JUSCO department store was renamed to AEON in 2013, to be consistent with the name change adopted by its parents company in Japan.

Demographic

Apart from the majority Cantonese population that is typical in Hong Kong. Whampoa and its surrounding area also has a significant Japanese immigrant and expatriate population. The area occupies only approximately 0.02% (1.5 km sq) of Hong Kong's land area, but accounts for 12.7% of the entire Japanese citizen population in Hong Kong, according to the 2011 Hong Kong Census and Consulate-General of Japan in Hong Kong.

Transportation

File:Whampoa garden.svg

Map of Whampoa Garden

MTR

• Hung Hom Station: Terminus for both the East Rail Line and the West Rail Line
• Whampoa Station is a proposed terminal station on the Kwun Tong Line, located at Whampoa Garden. This station will be opened in 2015.

KMB

• 3B- Tsz Wan Shan (Central) ↔ Hung Hom Ferry
• 5D- Telford Garden ↺ Whampoa Garden
• 7B- Lok Fu ↔ Hung Hom Ferry
• 8A- Whampoa Garden ↺ Star Ferry
• 8P- Laguna Verde ↺ Star Ferry
• 12A- Sham Shui Po (Tonkin Street) ↔ Whampoa Garden
• 15- Ping Tin ↔ Hung Hom Ferry
• 30X- Allway Gardens ↔ Whampoa Garden
• 85S- Yiu On → Hung Hom Ferry
• 85X- Ma On Shan Town Centre ↔ Hung Hom Ferry
• 212- Sham Shui Po (Tonkin Street) ↔ Whampoa Garden
• 297- Hang Hau (North) ↔ Hung Hom Ferry
• 297P- Hang Hau (North) → Hung Hom Ferry

Cross Harbour Tunnel Bus

• 115- Kowloon City Ferry ↔ Central (Macau Ferry)
• 115P- Laguna Verde → Central (Macau Ferry)
• 116- Tsz Wan Shan (Central) ↔ Quarry Bay

NWFB

• 796X- LOHAS Park ↔ Tsim Sha Tsui East

Citybus

• E23- Airport (Ground Transportation Centre) ↔ Tsz Wan Shan (South)
• N23- Tung Chung Station ↔ Tsz Wan Shan (North)

External links

• Emporis: Whampoa Garden
• Location of Whampoa Garden
• S.K. Hui, A. Cheung, J. Pang, "A Hierarchical Bayesian Approach for Residential Property Valuation:Application to Hong Kong Housing Market" (Archive), International Real Estate Review, 2010 Vol. 13 No.1: pp. 1 – 29
• Yu, Pui-kwan Robin (C: 余沛琨, J: jyu4 pui3 gwan1, P: Yú Pèikūn), "A study on quasi-public space in large scale private residential development, case in Hong Kong", University of Hong Kong, 2007 (Archive)