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Opposite: J-Residence, Johnston Road, Wan Chai. This was the URA’s first major heritageproject. Shop-house clusters dating from the 1880s to 1930 were preserved at 60-66Johnston Road (left), and 18 Ship Street (right). 204 They are positioned directly adjacent toa new 46-storey residential tower. The podium’s detailed frontage helps integrate it with theold buildings at street level, but the overall effect is still somewhat jarring. The URA madeconsiderable effort to find culturally relevant tenants for the preserved buildings, including abar, a fusion cuisine restaurant, and a restaurant/gallery. 205This page: 8 Waterloo Road. The two-storey water pumping station at 8 Waterloo Road wasoriginally slated for demolition but saved after a last-minute appeal by preservationists. Thenew development was built around it. Although the TPB required visual mitigation in thepodium near the red brick building, the brick building is still overwhelmed and overshadowedby the new development. It also remained unused for five years after construction wascompleted in 2004.111