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Rednaxela Terrace (; ) is a pedestrian-only street in Mid-Levels,
Rednaxela Terrace only has a few residential buildings, with
Rednaxela Terrace (; ) is a pedestrian-only street in Mid-Levels, Hong Kong
Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta i ...
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It is long and junctions Shelley Street
Shelley Street () is a street in Central, Hong Kong. It is a ladder street and the Central–Mid-Levels escalators run along the entire length of the street.
Name
The street is named after Adolphus Edward Shelley, an early British colonia ...
to the west and Peel Street to the east.
Name
Although there are no official conclusions to the origin of the name, it is believed that the road was part of the property owned by a Mr. Alexander, and Rednaxela is an understandable transposition of the English nameAlexander
Alexander is a male given name. The most prominent bearer of the name is Alexander the Great, the king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia who created one of the largest empires in ancient history.
Variants listed here are Aleksandar, Al ...
, since the Chinese language was typically written right-to-left at the time. Most of the naming errors in Hong Kong are a result of incorrect transliterations. Another explanation is that the name is linked to abolitionist Robert Alexander Young, who was known to have used the name Rednaxela in his 1829 work ''Ethiopian Manifesto''. Chinese transliteration followed suit and was adopted by the neighbourhood, and the government never made any further alterations.
History
From December 1891 to June 1892, the Filipino revolutionary and national hero José Rizal lived with his family at Number 2, Rednaxela Terrace, then working as an eye clinician in Hong Kong. The Hong Kong government erected a commemorative plaque in 2004 on the intersection of Rednaxela Terrace and Shelley Street to honour Rizal.Residential buildings
Rednaxela Terrace only has a few residential buildings, with Caine Road
Caine Road is a road running through Mid-Levels, Hong Kong. It connects Bonham Road to the west (at the junction with Hospital Road and Seymour Road), and Arbuthnot Road, Glenealy and Upper Albert Road to the east.
The road is named after Wi ...
on its north, Central-Mid-levels Escalator and Jamia Mosque on its east,
Rednaxela Terrace is considered a convenient location for local residents and expatriates. 1 Rednaxela Terrace is a building called The Rednaxela developed by Yu Tai Hing Company Ltd, which was completed in 1998.
8 Rednaxela Terrace is named as ACTS Rednaxela and developed by Goldig Investment Group (). Carl Gouw (), representing ACTS and the developer, collaborated with Gary Chang
Gary Chang is an American composer of scores for film and television. Working primarily in the action and thriller genres, he has composed the scores to over seventy films, including '' Under Siege, Sniper'', and '' The Island of Dr. Moreau.'' He ...
and EDGE Design Institute on designing the building. It received a Design For Asia Merit award from Hong Kong Design Centre and was featured in Apple TV’s ''Home''. Goldig sold ACTS Rednaxela in 2012 for HK$
The Hong Kong dollar (, sign: HK$; code: HKD) is the official currency of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. It is subdivided into 100 cents or 1000 mils. The Hong Kong Monetary Authority is the monetary authority of Hong Kong and ...
200m and ACTS continued with the serviced apartments operations for a few years. The building model is exhibited at M+ museum
M+ is a museum of visual culture in the West Kowloon Cultural District of Hong Kong. It exhibits twentieth and twenty-first century visual culture encompassing visual art, design and architecture, and moving image. It opened on 12 November 2021. ...
of West Kowloon Cultural District
The West Kowloon Cultural District (WKCD) is a large arts development in Hong Kong. Based on a Foster and Partners master plan and comprising , the district will eventually include 17 venues. The Xiqu Centre for Chinese opera, the Freespace c ...
.
References
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