Pop-up space at Hong Kong's Warehouses on West to host Spanish chef Carlos Garcia Rodriguez
Nine ground-floor storage spaces have been redeveloped with an eye to attracting art gallery and restaurant tenants. There's also an events space, where Michelin-trained chef who recently opened in Manila will present dinner for three nights, writes Kylie Knott
Warehouses On West, in Hong Kong's Sai Ying Pun district, is a commercial and retail community promoting the arts and creative thinking under one roof - well nine roofs, to be precise.
The brainchild of developer District15, the project - nine ground-floor warehouses repurposed into elegant spaces to house art galleries or restaurants - offers a hip alternative to high-rise retail and office space.
"We used one of the warehouses as our own office and we realised how great it would be for the spaces to be used as restaurants and art galleries," says Dinesh Nihalchand, a co-founder of District15.
Alex Bent, another co-founder, says: "Hong Kong has changed over the past 10 years, with little neighbourhoods opening up all over the city. We want Warehouses On West to be one of those new mini-neighbourhoods."