{"id":224691,"date":"2026-05-09T08:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T08:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=224691"},"modified":"2026-05-09T08:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T08:55:10","slug":"donald-liao-the-architect-who-shaped-hong-kongs-housing-landscape-dies-at-96","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=224691","title":{"rendered":"Donald Liao, the architect who shaped Hong Kong\u2019s housing landscape, dies at 96"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Liao Poon-huai, one of Hong Kong\u2019s most influential government architects and public housing visionaries who became the first Chinese official under British rule to serve as secretary for district administration, has died at the age of 96.<br \/>\nHis death was confirmed to the South China Morning Post by his family on Friday&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/society\/article\/3346464\/donald-liao-architect-who-shaped-hong-kongs-housing-landscape-dies-96?utm_source=rss_feed\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Liao Poon-huai, one of Hong Kong\u2019s most influential government architects and public housing visionaries<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":224692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224691-donald-liao-the-architect-who-shaped-hong-kongs-housing-landscape-dies-at-96.jpg",1280,720,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224691-donald-liao-the-architect-who-shaped-hong-kongs-housing-landscape-dies-at-96-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224691-donald-liao-the-architect-who-shaped-hong-kongs-housing-landscape-dies-at-96-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224691-donald-liao-the-architect-who-shaped-hong-kongs-housing-landscape-dies-at-96-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224691-donald-liao-the-architect-who-shaped-hong-kongs-housing-landscape-dies-at-96-1024x576.jpg",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224691-donald-liao-the-architect-who-shaped-hong-kongs-housing-landscape-dies-at-96.jpg",1280,720,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224691-donald-liao-the-architect-who-shaped-hong-kongs-housing-landscape-dies-at-96.jpg",1280,720,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224691-donald-liao-the-architect-who-shaped-hong-kongs-housing-landscape-dies-at-96-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224691-donald-liao-the-architect-who-shaped-hong-kongs-housing-landscape-dies-at-96-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224691-donald-liao-the-architect-who-shaped-hong-kongs-housing-landscape-dies-at-96-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=43\" rel=\"category\">Health<\/a>","tag_info":"Health","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=224691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/224692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=224691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=224691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=224691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}