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The Ponte Cais No.8, also known as "Dai Fong Cong", was built in the middle of 20th century. Ho Yin, a wealthy businessman at that time, hired the famous architect He Guang to be responsible for the design and construction. The design of Dai Fong Cong adopted the modernism that emphasize the function of the building, also take adornment and artistic style slightly, the design of vertical columns in the ground floor and its office floor’s transverse line presents contrast while expressing the strength on the structure and adornment. Chinese architectural elements are integrated into the building, and Chinese wooden frame doors and windows are also included in the western architectural design.

 

Dai Fong Cong at that time was very large and including a collection of warehouses and office buildings in a three-story reinforced concrete building. Praca de Ponte e Horta used to be an opium wharf owned by the government. In the middle of 19th century, Praca de Ponte e Horta was unable to be used due to siltation of the river channel; so the governor of Macau at that time decided to fill the Praca de Ponte e Horta. The government established a new tobacco tax terminal which now known as “Dai Fong Cong”. Praca de Ponte e Horta was changed from the opium terminal into paste preparation plant and tobacco monopoly bureau. Praca de Ponte e Horta 's public storehouse, the only storehouse for opium at that time, was built in 1880. After opium was banned in Macau in 1946, the public storehouse was used as a warehouse and then as a melting place. Later, it was rented by Yuehai University and later changed into the second police district’s police station but did not operate for long time. The public storehouse was gradually demolished. Now the yellow house, commonly known as the opium house in the neighborhood, is the ruins of the public storehouse. In 1996, the opium house was rebuilt into the second clinic of Tong Sin Tong.

8號碼頭又稱「大豐倉」，位於澳門內港碼頭，建於二十世紀中葉。由當時的富商何賢聘請著名建築師何光負責設計建造。大豐倉的設計採用重視功能的現代主義，也略帶裝飾及藝術風格，在底層豎直柱列的設計與其寫字樓層橫向的線條呈現對比的同時表現了結構上的力度與裝飾性。大樓融合了中式建築元素，在採用西式建築設計上亦帶有中式的木框門窗。

 

大豐倉在當時的規模非常大，是一個集合倉庫和寫字樓於一身的三層鋼筋混凝土建築。司打口以前是政府專屬的鴉片經營碼頭，在十九世紀中期，司打口因河道淤塞以致無法使用，澳督邦迪柯打決定填塞司打口，因為整治工程由柯打總督策劃，所以司打口又名柯邦迪前地。澳葡政府建立了新的煙稅碼頭即現在大豐倉。司打口則由鴉片碼頭變為煙膏配製場及大煙專賣局。司打口的公棧是當時唯一存放鴉片的倉庫，建於1880年。從1946澳門禁鴉片後，公棧曾被先後作為貨倉和熔金場，後來被粵海大學租用，其後被改為第二警區警署，但是都無法長期維持。公棧也逐漸被拆除，如今街坊俗稱為鴉片屋的黃色屋就是公棧的遺址，鴉片屋在1996年建築重修成為同善堂第二診所。