Workers are putting the finishing touches to a three-storey 6,500 sq ft penthouse in Shenzhen's Futian district, into which it is expected Chief Executive Donald Tsang Yam-kuen will move soon after his retirement in June.
The three-storey luxury apartment on the 35th, 36th and 37th floors of Junhao Building, East Pacific Garden, includes an outdoor garden and a swimming pool. Decoration work alone had cost around 10 million yuan (HK$12.3 million), said a person familiar with the situation.
According to a detailed floor plan dated in January and shown to the South China Morning Post, the apartment contains more than a dozen rooms and separate toilets for residents, their guests and maids. Its master bedroom has an independent bathroom and three coat rooms.
The three floors are connected by a swirling staircase. The lower floors contain a reading room, three living rooms, a dining room, a wine cellar, several storage rooms and a gymnasium. On the top floor is a karaoke room, a home theatre, a reading room and a small outdoor garden.
The penthouse can be accessed only via an exclusive and secured lift that takes visitors directly from the basement to the 37th floor.
Ng Wing-shun, a veteran architect and vice-president of the Hong Kong Institute of Urban Design, said he was impressed by the luxurious design after studying the floor plan.
