8 Waterloo Road, Residential tower in Yau Ma Tei, Hong Kong, China.
8 Waterloo Road is a private residential complex at the junction of Waterloo Road and Shanghai Street in Yau Ma Tei, completed in November 2004. It consists of two towers rising 40 storeys with 575 flats in total, designed by Lam Chan Kan Architects Limited. Its brown-red exterior walls match the neighbouring former Yau Ma Tei Pumping Station quarters, the "Red Brick House".
8 Waterloo Road was built as part of the Hong Kong government's Waterloo Road/Yunnan Lane redevelopment project, developed by the Urban Renewal Authority with Sun Hung Kai Properties. It was completed in November 2004. During the sales period, Sun Hung Kai packaged the estate as an "urban new aristocracy" and promoted it with a serialised novel and a radio drama of the same name.
The name "Wo Ba" (窩八) is the local shorthand for 8 Waterloo Road. During sales, developer Sun Hung Kai Properties marketed the flats as an "urban new aristocracy" and promoted them with a serialised novel and a radio drama of the same name. The brown-red facades match the neighbouring Red Brick House, the former Yau Ma Tei pumping station quarters.
The building stands at the junction of Waterloo Road and Shanghai Street in Yau Ma Tei, next to the former Yau Ma Tei Pumping Station quarters, the red-brick "Brick House". Its brown-red facades match that protected building, so the two are easy to find together. The estate has no owners' corporation, so Hong Kong Property Services manages it.
The two brown-red towers stand beside the former Yau Ma Tei Pumping Station quarters, a protected "Red Brick House"; their matching facades read as one architectural group. During the sales launch, developer Sun Hung Kai Properties marketed the estate as an "urban new aristocracy" and promoted it with a serialised novel and a radio drama of the same name.
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