Baker Residences, Residential complex in urban Hong Kong, China.
Baker Residences (御悅) is a 26-storey single-block residential building at 8-12 Pik Ka Wei in Hung Hom, completed in October 2011. Its three-storey base holds four shops and a machine room, while the 22 floors above contain 68 studio flats, four of them with platforms; a clubhouse with a games room and lounge occupies the 2nd floor. The building has 28 floor numbers because 4, 13, 14 and 24 are omitted.
The site was formerly two three-storey tong lau at 8-12 Baker Court (Pik Ka Wei). The Urban Renewal Authority bought them for about HK$72 million in 2003 and invited development tenders in 2008; only one bid arrived, for the smallest project it had ever tendered. It then partnered with Sino Land, and the 68-unit tower opened in October 2011.
The building's Chinese name, 御悅, is not a translation of Baker Residences; the English name comes from Baker Street, the old street in Hung Hom where the site stands. Floors 4, 13, 14 and 24 are omitted from the numbering, a common Chinese practice, so the 26 residential levels sit above a three-storey commercial base.
Baker Residences occupies a single tower at 8-12 Baker Court in Hung Hom, with three podium levels of shops and a clubhouse on the second floor. The building has no 4th, 13th, 14th or 24th floors, so the lift serves 28 storeys for 26 residential levels. The site is small, about 2,982 sq ft, and the flats are open-plan studios of roughly 270-370 sq ft.
The site was the smallest project ever put out to tender by the Urban Renewal Authority, and in 2008 it drew just one bid. The authority had bought the two old tenement blocks at 8-12 Pik Ka Wei around 2003 for about HK$72 million, then partnered with Sino Land to build the tower.
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