Felix Villas, Grade III historic residential building in Southern District, Hong Kong.
Felix Villas is a three-storey building of Classical Revival and Western design, built in 1922 at 61 Mount Davis Road. It holds eight flats of about 3,000 square feet each, with round bay windows, chimneys and balconies. The cream-white facade has pale green shutters, a light green pitched roof, and white-balustraded verandas on square columns above arched ground-floor openings, behind an ivy-covered stone retaining wall.
Built in 1922 for British merchant Felix Alexander Joseph, the house was bought by the University of Hong Kong in 1957 and turned into staff quarters. It now serves as rental housing with eight units, five of them let, and is listed as a Grade III historic building.
Singer Hins Cheung rented one of the eight units after a two-year wait and lived there for two and a half years. He lent the flat to Joey Yung for the music video of "Seven Wonders" and filmed his own "Passerby Villa" video five days before moving out on 1 July 2015. He later released the album "Felix - Me & Mr. Cheung" about his time there.
The location benefits from good public transport connections in the Southern District area. As an active residential building, access to the interior is restricted, but the exterior architecture can be viewed from the street.
Singer Hinson Cheung waited two years to rent a unit here, lived in it for two and a half years, and lent it to Joey Yung for the music video of "Seven Wonders". Five days before moving out on 1 July 2015, he filmed the video for "Passer-by Villa" inside, then released the album "Felix - Me & Mr. Cheung" about his time there.
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