Using Stealth, and Drones, to Document a Fading Hong Kong<br />But Professor Lee of the University of Hong Kong said<br />that the second classification did not legally protect buildings from demolition, and that Hong Kong officials — unlike their counterparts in Singapore, another wealthy Asian city and former British colony — rarely bestowed conservation status on modernist landmarks like the State Theater.<br />Ghost said that Victorian — no, Georgian?<br />If history was any guide, the explorers said, the building the drone was filming — a 1952 theater with unusual roof supports — would eventually be demolished<br />because it is not on Hong Kong’s list of declared monuments.<br />Lee Ho Yin said that If not for this group of urban adventurers, all of these buildings would eventually<br />disappear without anyone knowing what they meant to society at a certain point in time,<br />ers, not the people," said one of the explorers, who goes by the alias Ghost in videos<br />and whose pollution mask and fingerless gloves gave him the air of a bank robber or graffiti artist. that renewing the city on behalf of the develop<br />He added that he regarded the group’s members as "extreme urban anthropologists." The Hong Kong government’s Antiquities<br />and Monuments Office has granted 114 buildings and cultural landmarks permanent protection from development, and assigned grades to about 1,000 historic buildings, a list that may soon include the 1952 State Theater.
