Built between 1907 and 1908 as the Ma Tau Kok Animal Quarantine Depot (馬頭角牛畜檢疫站), this red brick complex served as the last old-fashioned slaughterhouse in urban Hong Kong until closure in 1999 amid neighbouring residents’ hygiene complaints. Renovated in 2001, it now houses numerous artist studios. The only pre-war cattle depot surviving in Hong Kong, it was upgraded to a Grade II historic building in 2009, though access is restricted in some areas due to limited fire safety installations.
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I am a web application developer, photojournalist, urban explorer, and history enthusiast passionate about the open web and documenting my experiences on this planet. This project was founded in the early 2010s and has evolved into a sort of personal Wikipedia of places that interest me (and often the photographs I’ve taken there). I’m originally from Toronto, Canada, but spend most of my time residing in Taiwan.