Hong Kong Clock Tower - Miniature Building Blocks

The Tsim Sha Tsui Clock Tower is officially known as the former Kowloon-Canton Railway Clock Tower. The clock tower is 44 meters high and built of red bricks and granite. There is also a 7-meter-long lightning rod on the roof. It is one of the important landmarks in Hong Kong. The clock tower was built in 1915. At the beginning of the completion, there was only one face of the clock. The current four-faced clock was installed in 1920 and officially started to run on the afternoon of March 22, 1921. The Tsim Sha Tsui Railway Station was relocated to the Hung Hom reclamation area in 1975, while the old railway station building was demolished in 1978, and only the clock tower was preserved as a collective memory symbol at the request of Hong Kong citizens. On July 30, 1990, the Clock Tower was assessed as a declared monument in Hong Kong and protected by the Antiquities and Monuments Ordinance. Over the years, the Clock Tower in Tsim Sha Tsui has been one of the most vivid symbols in Hong Kong. It is often seen in books, postcards, souvenirs, etc. The "Paper Panda Pop-Up", which exploded all over the world a few years ago, also used the Clock Tower in Tsim Sha Tsui as one of the pop-up spots.