The Six Senses Duxton

Its first city hotel at 83 Duxton Road brings history and conservation together for a new kind of sustainability.

When the owner of the former Duxton Hotel asked Six Senses to take over its property, it sparked the idea of heritage as sustainability: a chance to turn a row of restored buildings (trading houses from the 1860s, and an opium and gambling hub in the 19th and 20th centuries) into something rich in history that would also be green – without building from scratch.

“Often, heritage gets too modern and stripped down,” says Murray Aitken, the establishment’s general manager. “Our focus: maintain whatever it is from the building that it was originally intended for.”