Man Wah Sun Chuen () is a

private housing estate A housing estate (or sometimes housing complex, housing development, subdivision or community) is a group of homes and other buildings built together as a single development. The exact form may vary from country to country. Popular through ...

in Ferry Point, next to

Yau Ma Tei Yau Ma Tei is an area in the Yau Tsim Mong District in the south of the Kowloon Peninsula in Hong Kong. Name ''Yau Ma Tei'' is a phonetic transliteration of the name (originally written as ) in Cantonese. It can also be spelt as Yaumatei, Y ...

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Kwun Chung Kwun Chung, or Koon Chung in early documents, is an area of Hong Kong, Yau Ma Tei or Tsim Sha Tsui located in the Yau Tsim Mong District. In 1979, the MTR station running through Kwun Chung was named Jordan since it intersected Jordan Road and ...

on the west side of

Kowloon Kowloon () is one of the areas of Hong Kong, three areas of Hong Kong, along with Hong Kong Island and the New Territories. It is an urban area comprising the Kowloon Peninsula and New Kowloon. It has a population of 2,019,533 and a populat ...

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. On west side of a section of Ferry Street between

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and Saigon Street, it was near the former

Jordan Road Ferry Pier Jordan Road Ferry Pier or Ferry Point (1924–1998) () is a demolished pier originally located at Jordan Road, Jordan, Hong Kong. The site is turned into the MTR Austin Station. History After Hongkong and Yaumati Ferry gained the franchise to o ...

, now replaced by

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Austin station of

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and West Kowloon Station. It is where the area Ferry Point got its name. Formerly the site of the warehouse of Yaumatei Ferry Pier on the

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of West

, Man Wah Sun Chuen has a total of eight blocks built in 1960s and it is one of the oldest private housing estates in Hong Kong. It used be by the side of

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and

Yau Ma Tei Typhoon Shelter Yau Ma Tei Typhoon Shelter () is a typhoon shelter located near Yau Ma Tei, Kowloon, Hong Kong. History The Government of Hong Kong planned for the construction of a second typhoon shelter after (the old) Causeway Bay Typhoon Shelter in late ...

, before the

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was completed in the 1990s. The estate, developed by Ka Lin Real Estate, was designed by architect Eric Byron Cumine, who designed many buildings in Hong Kong such as former Kai Tai Airport, Harbour City, and also Casino Lisboa in

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. The design was under the influence of Building (Planning) Regulations in 1955, enacted in 1966, which relaxed the height limit and allow denser buildings. Each block of flats, comparable to the scale of

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, contains 419 flats accommodating more than 1300 people. With total of eight blocks of eighteen storeys, it was expected to be the home of forty thousand people, reported in the ''

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'' in 1963. The slant top setback was subject the regulation of right of light at that time, and the

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castle-like estate stood against the shoreline was spectacular. The estate was expensive but welcomed by

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of that time, where famous actors like

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and

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once lived there. As time goes by, the estate became more

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