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Amoy Gardens in 2011, after the demolition of Lower Ngau Tau Kok (II) Estate.
Amoy Gardens blocks standing behind a block of the green coloured (and now demolished) Lower Ngau Tau Kok (II) Estate in 2007. Kowloon Peak is visible in the background.
Amoy Plaza
Amoy Plaza Main Atrium
Amoy Gardens (Chinese: 淘大花園; pinyin: táo dà huā yuán; Jyutping: tou4 daai6 faa1 jyun4) is a high-density middle-class private housing estate in Hong Kong completed from 1981 to 1987.[1] It was the most seriously affected location during the 2003 SARS outbreak, with over 300 infected people.
Contents
1 Location
2 Features
3 SARS outbreak
4 Transportation
5 See also
6 References
7 External links
Location[edit]
A cinema on the ground floor of Amoy Gardens[2]
Amoy Gardens is located in the Ngau Tau Kok area of Kowloon, in the north east of Kowloon Peninsula of Hong Kong. It was on the land formerly the factory of soy sauce and other foods of Amoy Food Limited. Administratively, it is part of the Kwun Tong District.
Features[edit]
Some of the restaurants in the Food Front
Amoy Gardens comprises 19 blocks, from A to S, with height ranging from 30 to 40 floors.[1] The eight blocks A-H are 33 stories/105 m high, and situated on a podium 14 m high, which houses a commercial and shopping center. These eight blocks have 8 apartments per floor arranged in a cruciform shape. Each arm of the cruciform contains 2 apartments.[3]
There is a shopping mall (Amoy Plaza) as well as a food square within the entire Amoy Gardens estate.
SARS outbreak[edit]
Toward the end of March 2003, an outbreak of SARS occurred among residents of Amoy Gardens. As of April 15, 2003, there were a total of 321 cases of SARS in the estate. A concentration of cases was recorded in block E, accounting for 41% of the cumulative total. Block C (15%), block B (13%) and block D (13%) recorded the second, third and fourth highest incidence of SARS infections. The other cases (18%) were scattered in 11 other blocks.[4] Most of the initial 107 patients from Block E lived in flats that were vertically arranged.
All residents were subsequently moved to Lei Yue Mun and Lady MacLehose Holiday Village for isolation. In the mid-2003, the authority concern found that there were serious problems with the arrangement of bathroom drains which contributed to the spread of SARS.
The estate was decontaminated and the residents were able to return.
Transportation[edit]
Amoy Gardens is served by the Kowloon Bay Station of the MTR metro system.[5]
- Kowloon Motor Bus
- 1A- Sau Mau Ping (Central) ↔ Star Ferry
- 3D- Tsz Wan Shan (Central) ↔ Kwun Tong (Yue Man Square)
- 11B- Kwun Tong (Tsui Ping Road) ↔ Kowloon City Ferry
- 11C- Sau Mau Ping (Upper) ↔ Chuk Yuen Estate
- 11D- Lok Fu ↔ Kwun Tong Ferry
- 13P- Po Tat → Lai Kok (rush time service)
- 14- Yau Tong ↔ China Hong Kong City
- 15- Ping Tin ↔ Hung Hom Ferry
- 16- Lam Tin (Kwong Tin Estate) ↔ Mong Kok (Park Avenue)
- 17- Oi Man ↔ Kwun Tong (Yue Man Square)
- 38- Kwai Shing (East) ↔ Ping Tin
- 40- Laguna City ↔ Tsuen Wan (Nina Tower)
- 42C- Cheung Hang ↔ Lam Tin Station
- 62X- Tuen Mun Town Centre ↔ Yau Tong (rush time service)
- 74A- Tai Wo ↔ Kai Yip Estate
- 74X- Tai Po Central ↔ Kwun Tong Ferry
- 80- Mei Lam ↔ Kwun Tong Ferry
- 80X- Chun Shek ↔ Kwun Tong Ferry
- 83X- Kwun Tong Ferry ↔ Wong Nai Tau (rush time service)
- 89- Lek Yuen ↔ Kwun Tong Station
- 89B- Sha Tin Wai ↔ Kwun Tong Station
- 89C- Heng On ↔ Kwun Tong (Tsui Ping Road)
- 89D- Wu Kai Shan Station ↔ Lam Tin Station
- 89X- Sha Tin Station ↔ Kwun Tong Station
- 93K- Po Lam ↔ Mong Kok East Station
- 258D- Po Tin ↔ Lam Tin Station
- 259D- Lung Mun Oasis ↔ Yau Tong
- 268C- Long Ping Station ↔ Kwun Tong Ferry
- 269C- Tin Shui Wai Town Centre ↔ Kwun Tong Ferry
- 277X- Luen Wo Hui ↔ Lam Tin Station
- 292P- Sai Kung → Kwun Tong( Millennium City) (rush time service)
- 296C- Sheung Tak ↔ Sham Shui Po (Tonkin Street)
- New World First Bus
- N796- Tseung Kwan O Station ↺ Tsim Sha Tsui
- Citybus
- A22- Airport (Ground Transportation Centre) ↔ Lam Tin Station
- E22- AsiaWorld-Expo ↔ Lam Tin (North)
- E22A- AsiaWorld-Expo ↔ Tseung Kwan O Hong Sing Garden
- E22P- AsiaWorld-Expo ↔ Yau Tong (rush time service)
- E22S- Tung Chung (Yat Tung Estate) → Tseung Kwan O Po Lam (rush time service)
- Cross Harbour Tunnel Bus
- 101- Kwun Tong (Yue Man Square) ↔ Kennedy Town
- 101R- Happy Valley Racecourse → Kwun Tong (Yue Man Square)
- 671- Diamond Hill Station ↔ Ap Lei Chau (Lee Lok Street)
See also[edit]
- List of buildings and structures in Hong Kong
References[edit]
^ ab Emporis – Amoy Gardens Archived October 31, 2004, at the Wayback Machine.
^ Location of Broadway Kowloon Bay cinema Archived February 3, 2007, at the Wayback Machine.
^ Architectural Studies of Air Flow at Amoy Gardens, Kowloon Bay, Hong Kong, and its Possible Relevance to the Spread of SARS. Status report, 2 May 2003
^ Outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) at Amoy Gardens, Kowloon Bay, Hong Kong Main Findings of the Investigation. 17 April 2003
^ Kowloon Bay Station location map
External links[edit]
 | Wikimedia Commons has media related to Amoy Gardens. |
淘大花園住戶網 (討論區) (in Chinese)
amoygardens.com (in Chinese)- Case Study: Amoy Gardens Outbreak
- S.K. Hui, A. Cheung, J. Pang, "A Hierarchical Bayesian Approach for Residential Property Valuation:Application to Hong Kong Housing Market", International Real Estate Review, 2010 Vol. 13 No.1: pp. 1 – 29
Coordinates: 22°19′28″N 114°13′00″E / 22.32445°N 114.21659°E / 22.32445; 114.21659
Categories:
- Private housing estates in Hong Kong
- Ngau Tau Kok
- Shopping centres in Hong Kong
- Hang Lung Group
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