Government Hill

English Proper noun Government Hill en hill area/Central district/Central and Western sar/Hong Kong. en 1843 Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London 112 The western part of the island is likewise divided from the centre by two ravines, both running from the same eminence - the one to the south terminating in a small undulating piece of country, on which the village of Pok-foo-lum is situated; other to the north, where it spreads out and forms Government Hill and the small flat beneath. en 2002 Solomon Bard Voices from the Past: Hong Kong, 1842-1918 Hong Kong University Press 9789622095748 19 The buildings, erected around 1843, housed the first government offices on the 'Government Hill', between Lower Albert Road, seen on the right, and Battery Path below. en 25 October 2010 Shopping mall should not be built on Government Hill https://web.archive.org/web/20201124190942/https://www.scmp.com/article/728493/shopping-mall-should-not-be-built-government-hill 24 November 2020 https://www.scmp.com/article/728493/shopping-mall-should-not-be-built-government-hill w:South China Morning Post 1563-9371 648902513 https://archive.ph/yJsef Hong Kong people deserve a better-protected Government Hill. It will be very sad if this valuable site is to become a 'Developer's Hill'. en metonymically The Former Central Government Offices of the Government of Hong Kong. en 01 September 2015 Ryan Ho Kilpatrick Gov’t fortifies Civic Square ahead of Occupy anniversary w:Hong Kong Free Press https://archive.ph/ZKOon 22 October 2023 https://hongkongfp.com/2015/09/01/govt-fortifies-civic-square-ahead-of-occupy-anniversary/ Hong Kong Following the relocation of Central Government Offices from Government Hill in Central, the 1,000-square-metre site became the focal point of protests against the national education curriculum and the government’s denial of a free-to-air licence to broadcaster HKTV. en 2016 Charlie Q. L. Xue Modernism Coming to Town—Government Low-Cost Housing and Public Buildings Hong Kong Architecture 1945-2015: From Colonial to Global https://books.google.com/books?id=5xZkDAAAQBAJ Springer 10.1007/978-981-10-1004-0 9789811010040 2016939925 45 https://books.google.com/books?id=5xZkDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA45 The west wing of “Government Hill” was proposed to be demolished to give way to high-rise office buildings.The protesters thought that no matter how dull it was, the “Government Hill” had witnessed a piece of Hong Kong history after the war and should be preserved totally. en 2016 Ken Nicolson Government Hill Landscapes Lost and Found: Appreciating Hong Kong’s Heritage Cultural Landscapes w:Hong Kong University Press https://archive.org/details/landscapeslostfo0000nico/ 9789622093393 952455892 95, 97 https://archive.org/details/landscapeslostfo0000nico/page/95/ Although it appears to be a self-contained enclave in the central business district, Government Hill has not been totally cocooned from change.If the new CGO blocks had been typical high-rise, they would have destroyed the character of Government Hill. A popular feature of the CGO compound was accessibility. en 2018 Pui-yin Ho Making Hong Kong Edward Elgar Publishing 9781788117951 During the consultation period, former Secretary for Works Michael Wright and former Chief Secretary David Akers-Jones advised the government to conserve the Government Hill as a whole and not to demolish the West Wing. Translations hill in Hong Kong Chinese: Cantonese: yue 政府山 Further reading Government Hill