Ophthalmologist Business Card of Doctor Jose Rizal from Hong Kong End of 19 Century

Rednaxela Terrace (; ) is a pedestrian-only street in

Mid-Levels Mid-Levels is an affluent residential area on Hong Kong Island in Hong Kong. It is located between Victoria Peak and Central. Residents are predominantly more affluent Hong Kong locals and expatriate professionals. The Mid-Levels is further ...

, Hong Kong. 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 name Alexander, 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 Transliteration is a type of conversion of a text from one writing system, script to another that involves swapping Letter (alphabet), letters (thus ''wikt:trans-#Prefix, trans-'' + ''wikt:littera#Latin, liter-'') in predictable ways, such as ...

. Another explanation is that the name is linked to abolitionist

Robert Alexander Young The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honou ...

, 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 José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda (, ; June 19, 1861 – December 30, 1896) was a Filipino nationalist, writer and polymath active at the end of the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines. He is considered the national he ...

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 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 and

EDGE Design Institute EDGE Design Institute Ltd. is an architecture and interior design firm founded by Gary Chang in 1994. History The studio, EDGE, was established in 1994 by Gary Chang in Hong Kong. It was then renamed to EDGE Design Institute Ltd. in 2003. Soon ...

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

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200m and ACTS continued with the serviced apartments operations for a few years. The building model is exhibited at M+ museum of West Kowloon Cultural District.

References

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