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Justice Place | |
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中區政府合署 | |
Former names | Former Central Government Offices Government Headquarters |
General information | |
Architectural style | International |
Location | Central |
Country | Hong Kong |
Current tenants | Department of Justice |
Completed | 1957 |
Opened | 9 January 1957 |
Owner | Hong Kong Government |
Central Government Offices | |||||||||||||
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Traditional Chinese | 中區政府合署 | ||||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 中区政府合署 | ||||||||||||
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Government Headquarters | |||||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 政府總部 | ||||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 政府总部 | ||||||||||||
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Justice Place | |||||||||||||
Chinese | 律政中心 | ||||||||||||
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The Former Central Government Offices (also the Government Headquarters),now called Justice Place,is an office building complex that formerly housed most of the major offices of the Hong Kong Government. The complex is located in Central,Hong Kong,occupying the lower level of Government Hill. The offices of the government have been relocated to the Main Block of the Central Government Complex,Tamar.
Completed in 1957 by the Government of Hong Kong,it replaced a two-storey colonial complex from the 1930s,the old Secretariat Building (built in 1847 and demolished in 1954).
Like Hong Kong City Hall,the complex was built in the International style.
The Legislative Council of Hong Kong met here until 1985,when it moved to the old Supreme Court Building.
All major government departments except the Department of Justice are now located at the Central Government Complex in Tamar. The Department of Justice remained at the former Central Government Offices Main and East Wing,which was renamed Justice Place.
The building that formerly housed the offices were actually a complex of three wings with a total of 76,000 square feet (7,100 m2) of offices:
The most familiar wing was the Main Wing,housing offices of the Chief Executive and site of most major protests against the Hong Kong Government (another site is the LegCo). In order to keep protesters who have not applied from entering the complex,a series of fences was erected in 1998 after the transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China in 1997.
Plans are under way to replace the current buildings with a new 110,000-square-foot (10,000 m2) office at the Tamar basin and scheduled to be completed by 2010. Apart from government offices,the Tamar site will also house the Legislative Council and provide not less than 22,000 square metres of open space for public enjoyment. The cost for developing the entire Tamar site is estimated at HKD5.2 billion.
Plans after 2011 will likely see the Justice Department re-locate to the Main and East Wings. The government has proposed to demolish the West Wing while community groups are proposing to protect the historic site. [1]
List of tenants of the three complexes:
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