In their blood : understanding heritage meanings through the socio-historical experience of Hong Kong's Central police station

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonios Constantinos Kilias
Keyword(s):  
Historical Experience ◽  
Police Station ◽  
Central Police

scholarly journals Recent developments in devices for seismic isolation

1992 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 167-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. J. Cousins ◽  
W. H. Robinson ◽  
G. H. McVerry
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Seismic Isolation ◽  
Performance Characteristics ◽  
Printing Press ◽  
Police Station ◽  
Capacitor Banks ◽  
Rubber Bearing ◽  
Lead Rubber Bearing ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Central Police

Significant extensions to the technology for seismic-isolation were required for three recent applications in New Zealand. The structures isolated were a new Central Police Station in Wellington, a printing press hall built in Petone for Wellington Newspapers Ltd., and capacitor banks at Haywards substation near Lower Hutt. In each case the isolating devices were tested to verify their performance characteristics. This paper presents the results of the testing. The devices were a lead-extrusion damper rated at 250 kN load ± 400 mm stroke, a lead-rubber bearing measuring 609 mm x 609 mm x 460 mm, and a steel taper-beam damper rated at 10.6 kN load ± 200 mm stroke.

Making Heritage in Hong Kong: A Case Study of the Central Police Station Compound

2010 ◽  
Vol 202 ◽  
pp. 381-399 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agnes Shuk-mei Ku
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Cultural Value ◽  
Spatial Politics ◽  
Police Station ◽  
The People ◽  
Central Police

AbstractThis article is a case study of state–society–capital conflicts over the preservation of the Central Police Station (CPS) compound in Hong Kong during 2003–08. The conflict was between two fundamentally different approaches to urban space: a cultural economy approach that took culture and space as a source of economic profit, and an opposition discourse of preservation that emphasized cultural, historical and humanistic values as an end. The struggle turned out to be a moderate success for anti-commercialism. Drawing on and extending the notions of collective memory and spatial politics, this article examines how the various civil society actors, in their struggle against commercialism, sought to define and enhance the cultural value of the site through a variety of discourses and practices relating to history and space. It addresses the specific question of why and how certain constructions of collective memory succeed (or fail) to work with certain places in particular instances. The study shows that memories of the CPS compound contained both state-associated and people-associated accounts, between which the former prevailed. The state-associated account was embedded in a familiar, hegemonic story about Hong Kong, which, via an abstract process of symbolization around the notion of the rule of law, successfully turned the compound into an iconic symbol of identification for the city. Beyond this, the civil society actors sought also to generate a sense of lived space associated with the people, and the outcome was mixed.

scholarly journals Assessment and examination

1999 ◽  
Vol 5 (6) ◽  
pp. 405-414 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Jolly
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Taxi Driver ◽  
The West ◽  
Police Station ◽  
Mental Health Act ◽  
Northern City ◽  
Central Police

A 19-year-old student, wandering the streets of a Northern city, is picked up at 3am by a taxi driver. The student requests delivery to a fictitious destination. The student recounts to the driver a series of events including abandonment by parents at the age of six in a forest in the West Country, and subsequent adoption by an elderly couple who live in Birmingham. The taxi driver takes the student to the central police station, where, after a brief interview, sectioning under the Mental Health Act 1983 takes place.

Wellington Central Police Station base isolation maintenance

2013 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 141-156
Author(s):  
C. R. Smart
Keyword(s):  
Base Isolation ◽  
Horizontal Direction ◽  
Isolation System ◽  
Police Station ◽  
Station Base ◽  
Base Isolation System ◽  
Central Police ◽  
Floor Diaphragms

Wellington Central Police Station was built in the late 1980s. Its 10-storey tower block featured robust X-bracing around the perimeter and strong floor diaphragms to distribute earthquake actions amongst the perimeter frames, thus making it extremely stiff. To provide the ductility required by the 1984 Loadings Standard, the tower block was supported on a base isolation system that allowed up to 400 millimetres of movement in any horizontal direction. This paper describes investigations into the continuing serviceability of the base isolation parts, and the remedial maintenance required.

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