A rundown tenement converted into a New York-style brownstone.
Photographer: Anthony Kwan/Bloomberg
Open House: Rare Five-Story Luxury Home Near Central HK Lists for $9 Million
In a city of skyscrapers, an American expat decided to recreate a New York-style brownstone in Hong Kong after buying and renovating a dilapidated 1970s tenement building.
This is the second of Bloomberg’s Open House series, featuring Hong Kong’s most interesting homes.
About 12 years ago, an American lawyer successfully bid for a rundown 1970s Hong Kong tenement building with an aim to transform it into a single luxury home modeled on a Manhattan brownstone that he could live in.