While the old Rhenish Church stood as a testimony to the reductive aesthetics of church architecture in Hong Kong in the 1950s, the new Church strives to re-visualize that classical simplicity and elegance in a contemporary way. Re-built on the same footprint with a greater height allowance, the design is created with the re-modelling of the church hall and belfry in a modified structural system that allows vertical expansion of the building, and with the addition of four upper stories in the form of a curtain wall system that clearly distinguishes the new from the re-constructed. While the external appearance of the church hall is preserved for its iconic quality, its interior is designed with the essence of a re-interpreted visual reminiscence that allows the project to explore innovative possibilities and thus to transcend mere reconstruction.