{"id":13,"date":"2015-12-24T15:53:33","date_gmt":"2015-12-24T14:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/hongkongmourning\/?page_id=13"},"modified":"2016-01-12T21:43:58","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T20:43:58","slug":"space","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/hongkongmourning\/space\/","title":{"rendered":"Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>What space is occupied by the dead and mourners in Hong Kong?<\/li>\n<li>What places, buildings\u00a0and infrastructures are there?<\/li>\n<li>How are these spaces arranged?<\/li>\n<li>What do they look like? What is typical of them?<\/li>\n<li>What are their functions?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Hung Hom funeral district<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Funeral Parlours<\/em> &#8211; examples:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Grand Peace Funeral Parlour<\/li>\n<li>Universal Funeral Parlour<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Private funeral undertakers<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Coffin\u00a0shops<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Flower shops<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Manufacturers of paper objects (replicas)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Others<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Greater city area<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Cemeteries<\/em> &#8211; worth visiting:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Aberdeen (back of HK island)<\/li>\n<li>Parsee (central, near Happy Valley recreation ground)<\/li>\n<li>Pok Fu Lam (side of HK island, Sandy Bay)<\/li>\n<li>Tseung Kwan O (Kowloon)<\/li>\n<li>Tsuen Wan<\/li>\n<li>Wo Hop Shek (New Territories)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Crematoria, columbaria &amp; gardens of remembrance<\/em>\u00a0&#8211; innovative:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wo Hop Shek Kiu Tau Road (opened 2012, 43&#8217;700 niches, designed by architects)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/2014.venicebiennale.hk\/diamond-hill-columbarium-crematorium\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/2014.venicebiennale.hk\/diamond-hill-columbarium-crematorium\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Diamond Hill (opened 2010, designed by architects, shown at Venice Biennale 2014)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Coffin Repositories<\/em><br \/>\nChinese dying\u00a0abroad are usually shipped back home from overseas. They\u00a0then\u00a0stay\u00a0at the Hong Kong coffin home, before being sent\u00a0to their home town:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tung Wah Coffin Home, Sandy Bay (next to Pok Fu Lam cemetery)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tung_Wah_Coffin_Home\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tung_Wah_Coffin_Home<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Ancestral altars\u00a0in private homes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Are set up for dead relatives to worship them.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Visions for the future<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tin Shun But, \u00abColumbarium at Sea\u00bb:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/62362\/columbarium-at-sea-tin-shun-but\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/62362\/columbarium-at-sea-tin-shun-but\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bread Studio, \u00abFloating Eternity\u00bb:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.breadstudio.com\/project%20index\/HKIA_floating%20cemetary.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.breadstudio.com\/project%20index\/HKIA_floating%20cemetary.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What space is occupied by the dead and mourners in Hong Kong? What places, buildings\u00a0and infrastructures are there? How are these spaces arranged? What do they look like? What is typical of them? What are their functions? Hung Hom funeral &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/hongkongmourning\/space\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1775,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/hongkongmourning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/hongkongmourning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/hongkongmourning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/hongkongmourning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1775"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/hongkongmourning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/hongkongmourning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/hongkongmourning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions\/269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/hongkongmourning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}