FORWORD

Ella
Jessica

Muky
Renaissance architecture
Renaissance architecture
is the architecture of the
period between the early
15th and early 17th
centuries in different
regions of Europe, in
which there was a
conscious revival and
 The Renaissance style places
emphasis on symmetry,
proportion, geometry and the
regularity of parts as they are
demonstrated in the architecture
of Classical antiquity and in
particular, the architecture of
Ancient Rome, of which many
examples remained. Orderly
arrangements of, columns,
pilasters and lintels, as well as
the use of semicircular arches,
-Name :The St. Peter’s Cathedral

-Location :Vatican in Rome

-Completion Year : 1546 to 1564 and 1590

-Special Features : St . Peter’s

Cathedral have the dome ,arch and
tall stone columns.

**These designs were copied from the

ancient Greco-Roman style .
 The influence on
Renaissance architecture to
the 18-19th century
architecture Hong Kong
 The examples of popular
Renaissance architectures: De re
aedificatoria, Tempietto di
San Pietro in Montorio,
Tempio di Vesta, The remains
of the Colosseum, St. Peter’s
Cathedral, Pointed towers and
so on.
Many buildings in Europe, America,
Asia, and even in Hong Kong copied
the design from ancient Greco-
Roman architects. These buildings all
have a large dome, a lot of arches
and many tall stone columns. And
the artists add more elements on the
buildings, no wonder that art in later
times becomes more realistic, lively
and colorful.
 Meanwhile, the British introduced
Victorian architecture and Edwardian
architecture styles from the mid-19th
Century onwards. Hong Kong
buildings were always built on Italian
Renaissance style.
 The examples of buildings which
copied the architecture style of the
Renaissance:
- the Legislature Council Building
- Central School
- City Hall
- Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking
Corporation
- Former French Mission Building
- Bishop’s House, Government House
- Old Stanley Police Station
- The University of Hong Kong
-Name :Former French Mission Building

-Location :Battery Path in Central

-Completion Year : 29th June 1843

-Special Features : A three-storey red

brick and granite building in neo-
classical style .

Old use : As the office of the French

Mission
Present use : As the office of the Court
of Final Appeal
 The similarities of architecture
between Renaissance and 19th Hong
Kong
- They both have large domes, a
lot of arches and many tall stone
columns.
- They both are ancient Greek and
Italian style.
The differences of the architecture
in the Renaissance and the 18th
century of Hong Kong
- During the early period of the 18th
century, since Hong Kong wasn't ruled by
the British Government at that time, the
architecture of Hong Kong at that time
didn't have any specific features.

- Unlike the ones in the Renaissance, they

had features like having large domes, tall
stone columns and arches, etc.

- The architecture in the Renaissance was

the "Greco Roman Style".
- But the architecture in the 18th century of