Desperate Mission - Germán Cobos (1965) - More Kwun Tong Road

Back to Kwun Tong Road again, but this time we are a bit further to the north and west. The large building you can see on the left side of the road is the former Amoycan Industrial Centre. This building was constructed in 1961 and I guess was part of the Amoy canning factory (located behind it from this angle). In later years it became a mixture of enterprises including a self-storage business on the 3rd floor. This is signficant because just a few years ago (2016) a fire occurred in one of the storage units - one of the worst in many years - that ended up claiming the lives of two firemen. It may have been this that spurred the owner to redevelop the site. The building was demolished in 2019/2020 and a new high rise residential development called "The Aperture" has been built on the site. Same view today (I kid you not).