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Category: Master Plan Tags: Architecture Award, Competition, Foster + Partners, Hong Kong
After the year-long public consultation in Hong Kong, Henry Tang, Hong Kong’s chief secretary and chairman of the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority, announced that Foster + Partners‘ ‘City Park‘ conceptual masterplan has been selected for West Kowloon Cultural District. The project is considered to be the largest cultural initiative in the world today. The [...]
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Category: Master Plan, Selected Tags: Foster + Partners, Hong Kong, Waterfront architecture
Foster + Partners‘ ‘City Park‘ is one of three conceptual masterplan selected for the further development of the West Kowloon Cultural District (WKCD) Conceptual Plan in Hong Kong. Another 2 conceptual proposals are ‘Project for a New Dimension‘ by Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) and ‘Cultural Connect: Key to Sustained Vitality‘ by Rocco Design Architects [...]
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Category: Commercial, Interior Tags: China, Color architecture, Display design, Hong Kong, OOBIQ
OOBIQ Architects, an Italian design firm based in Hong Kong has recently completed the retail design for Alla Scala Concept in Shen Zhen, China. + Project description, text by Samuele Martelli, Giambattista Burdo Approaching to a concept design for a new brand is generally very challenging for designers. When in our daily work we cooperate [...]
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Category: Design, Industrial Tags: Canada, Hong Kong, Kitmen Keung
Chinese-Canadian product designer Kitmen Keung has created a simple mouse pad featuring a slightly sloping edge to hold tiny accessories. The A4-size silicone piece brings together the convenience of a mouse pad and a resting place for tiny desktop accessories such as clips, erasers and pens in the form of a slightly inwards sloping edge. [...]
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Category: Architecture, Hotel, Interior, Selected Tags: Color architecture, Hong Kong, Mosaic, Random pattern, studio OFF
This project is a full-scale conversion & façade modification of Hotel V from a 30+ years old office block located in Wanchai, Hong Kong. It was designed by studio OFF with an idea of roughness as a metaphor. The wall finished with a special mosaic expression tile – Tri-tonal Tile® to give different visual expressions [...]
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