Salisbury Rd T2734 9009. Box office daily 10am-8pm. The Hong Kong Cultural Centre was built in 1980 to provide a cultural hub for this otherwise overtly materialistic city. It contains a concert hall and several theatres, where events from classical Italian and Chinese opera through to contemporary dance are performed (contact the box office for current programmes).

Worthy though all this is, the building itself proves that you need more than money to create impressive architecture: costing six hundred million Hong Kong dollars, the building - astonishingly, given the harbourside location - has no windows. The pink-tiled exterior is awkwardly shaped, with angled walls and outshooting ribs creating a cloister surrounded by a starkly paved area, dotted with palm trees. An adjacent twotiered walkway along the water offers the view of the harbour and Hong Kong Island denied from the inside; come here at night to see Central’s towers in all their chromatic glory.