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Heritage Watch Let’s talk Value Queen’s Pier, Edinburgh Place & City Hall is Heart of our City should be Monuments

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Page 1: Heritage Watch Lets talk Value Queens Pier, Edinburgh Place & City Hall is Heart of our City should be Monuments

Heritage WatchLet’s talk Value

Queen’s Pier, Edinburgh Place & City Hall

is Heart of our Cityshould be Monuments

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AAB Meeting - 9 May 2007Heritage WatchLet’s talk ValueQueen’s Pier

Statement of Cultural Significance

Queen’s Pier, Edinburgh Place & City Hall

is Heart of our Cityshould be Monuments

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Queen’s PierHK heritage of unique cultural

significanceof high Cultural, Historical & Social

Values

(1) Cultural SignificanceQueen’s Pier: Distinctive cultural landmark

and civiccentre of the HK City

(2) Historical ContextQueen’s Pier: Indispensable historical significance

in HK'stransformation from a British colony to a SpecialAdministrative Region of China

(3) Social ValueQueen’s Pier: Unique harbour-front public space

withrich social meanings and wide-ranging local

interests

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(1) Cultural Significance (i) Queen's Pier: the heart of the City of

Victoria

• Unique quarter • Should be conserved altogether as a cluster of significant

values

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(1) (ii)Queen’s Pier: the transformation of colonialism to People’s Space

• Unique historical-linguistic significance• Strong socio-historical significance

(1) (iii) Preservation of Queen’s Pier: a reversal of the “Destroy HK” motif

• Queen’s Pier, City Hall & Edinburgh Square complex represent a great opportunity to reverse the lop-sided development motif – from “Destroy HK” to “sustainable development”.• "No Demolition" does not mean "No Development”. • public space has provided for the nurture, accumulation, and embodiment of what Hong Kong people see as a crucial part of the vibrant city culture.

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(2) Historical context

Guidelines to the “Burra Charter, Australia ICOMOS”:

“… significance will be greater where evidence of the association or event survives in situ, or where the settings are substantially intact, than where it has been changed or evidence does not survive.”

(2)(i) Queen’s Pier: symbol of gubernatorial history

(2)(ii) Queen’s Pier: visit of the Royal family(2)(iii) Queen’s Pier: historical continuity

Queen’s Piershould continue to be so, now and into the future

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(3) Social Value

Queen’s Pier: Unique harbour-front public space, social value with rich social meanings and wide-ranging local interests.

(3)(i) the people’s harbourfront

(3)(ii) the people’s public space

(3)(iii) the people’s cultural sphere

(3)(iv) the site of people’s empowerment

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(3) Social Value

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Conclusion1. In 2000, the State Administration of Cultural Heritage of

the Chinese Central Government approved the Principles for the Conservation of Heritage Sites in China (“China Principles”) as an integrated and methodological approach to the conservation and management of historical sites in China.

Venice Charter (1964) & the Burra Charter of Australia ICOMOS (1979, revised 1999). The HKSAR government has publicly stated that these principles should be “used as guidelines for conserving built heritage".

2. On the basis of the cultural, historical and social consideration, Queen’s Pier (and the associated City Hall & Edinburgh Place) should be recognized as a built heritage of significance of the highest order.

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3. Queen’s Pier: the social value it embodies are irreplaceable and unique. The obvious and logical conclusion is that it should be preserved at its current location.

4. We urge the AAB to confer Grade I status on Queen’s Pier.

5. We recommend AAB to take an immediate next step is to confer the same Grade I status to the whole complex of Queen’s Pier, City Hall & Edinburgh Place, with an aim of declaring them as MONUMENTS.

6. We recommend AAB to open up channels for the public to apply for buildings to be graded.

Conclusion

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