"It’s rare that a brand new hotel rockets straight to the top of Hong Kong’s hospitality scene, and rarer still, for obvious reasons, that it’s converted from a late-Sixties landmark government building by the eminent London-based architects Foster + Partners. But, as is by now clear, the Murray is no ordinary hotel. The original structure is oddly well-suited to luxury-hotel use — its recessed, angled windows keep direct sunlight to a minimum, which helps to cool the rooms. And Foster + Partners made significant improvements as well, and not just in interior design — they opened up the ground level to street life, for one thing, a concern that the original government ministry didn’t share." - Tablet Hotels