Haw Par Mansion/Tiger Balm Garden 虎豹別墅

Haw Par Mansion/Tiger Balm Garden
繁:虎豹別墅
简:虎豹别墅

三十年代,東南亞商人胡文虎曾在大坑建立了一棟私人別墅「虎豹別墅」,別墅有一座「虎塔」,是當時香港島上唯一的中國式塔樓,是那個年代的重要建築象徵,近年亦輾轉拆卸活化。

回流藝術家「縱虎歸山」 再現「虎豹別墅」、重塑舊時香港(2017年4月15日)。香港01,取自https://www.hk01.com/%E8%97%9D%E6%96%87%E5%89%B5%E6%84%8F/84431/%E5%9B%9E%E6%B5%81%E8%97%9D%E8%A1%93%E5%AE%B6-%E7%B8%B1%E8%99%8E%E6%AD%B8%E5%B1%B1-%E5%86%8D%E7%8F%BE-%E8%99%8E%E8%B1%B9%E5%88%A5%E5%A2%85-%E9%87%8D%E5%A1%91%E8%88%8A%E6%99%82%E9%A6%99%E6%B8%AF

Haw Par Mansion, its private garden and the public Tiger Balm Gardens were built in the 1930s by Hong Kong entrepreneur and philanthropist Aw Boon Haw, known as “the king of Tiger Balm”.

Haw Par Mansion: 1930’s splendour given new lease of life as music academy. (2016, October 16). South China Morning Post. Retrieved from http://www.scmp.com/property/article/2026962/haw-par-mansion-1930s-splendour-given-new-lease-life-music-academy