Hong Kong Baptist University School of Chinese Medicine - Lui Seng Chun

Built in 1931, Lui Seng Chun was originally owned by Lui Leung and designed by architect W.H. Bourne. The shophouse incorporates Neo-classical motifs with Art Deco elements, featuring a bone-setting medicine shop named “Lui Seng Chun” on the ground floor and living quarters on the upper floors. Custom-designed to the family’s need rather than following templates from pattern books, it remains a rare surviving example of 1930s tailor-made shop-residence architecture in Hong Kong.

Since the 1960s, the Lui family began to move out of the building as the family continued to grow. The building became vacant in the 1970s. In 2000, Lui Seng Chun became a Grade I historic building. With the vision of preserving the building and to contribute to society, the Lui family donated the building to the Government in the same year. It was included in Batch I of the “Revitalising Historic Buildings Through Partnership Scheme” in 2008 and was converted into a Chinese medicine healthcare centre. In 2022, Lui Seng Chun was declared a monument. 

Effort was made to retain the original architectural features as far as possible. Necessary alterations and addition works were carried out to meet the needs of the clinic while minimising impact to the historic architecture.

Address: 119 Lai Chi Kok Road, Mong Kok, Kowloon

Photos courtesy of Hiuman Lam