If there is one building in Hong Kong, however, that requires a very loooooong stretch of definition to reach even these criteria it is the main house of Ho Tung Gardens on The Peak. Let us be frank.

Built by and named after Sir Robert Ho Tung in 1927, the Ho Tung Gardens sits on a site of just over a hectare (nearly three acres) on The Peak, a high-end residential neighbourhood in the Chinese ...