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Protecting Hong Kong’s heritage
Two eminent professional organisations in Hong Kong put their weight behind efforts to protect historical buildings with new programs, including ‘Co-Vitalize Our Heritage‘ The Hong Kong Institute of Architects (HKIA) and Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors (HKIS) are each launching months-long campaigns, funded by the Built Heritage Conservation Fund of the Commissioner of Heritage Office, …
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- Architecture
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- Co-Vitalize Our Heritage , heritage , HKIA , HKIS , Hong Kong architecture
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A 1930s art deco row house is reborn as F11 Foto Museum
Once a supermarket, a 1930s art deco row house in Happy Valley has been rescued by shutterbug Douglas So and reborn as the privately run F11 Foto Museum for photography buffs For most of its history, Happy Valley has been an affluent neighbourhood. Aside from Wednesday race nights, when Hongkongers throng to its famous racecourse …
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- Architecture
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- Douglas So , F11 Foto Museum , heritage
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The Mills: new art and cultural complex for Hong Kong
The lights are back on in three abandoned cotton mills in Tsuen Wan, now reimagined as a cultural complex, creative co-working space and start-up hub that pay homage to Hong Kong’s golden era in the textile industry. The Mills officially in December 2018 For the past five years, Hong Kong property developer Nan Fung Group …
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- Architecture , Top Story
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- heritage , Hong Kong , Nan Fung Group , revitalisation , The Mills
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Central Police Station Revitalisation Project sets mid-2018 phased opening
The Central Police Station Revitalisation Project, one of the largest heritage conservation and revitalisation projects in Hong Kong to open as Tai Kwun – Centre for Heritage and Arts in mid-2018 The Central Police Station (CPS) Revitalisation Project is moving ahead with preparations for the opening of the site, to be done in three phases …
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- Architecture , Developments , News
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- architecture , Central Hong Kong , central police station , Central Police Station Revitalisation Project , heritage , news , revitalisation , revitalisation project , Tai Kwun , Tai Kwun - Centre for Heritage and Arts
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Redesigning The Murray Building: from government offices, to luxury hotel
A Foster + Partners refashioning of a 1960s’ Hong Kong government office building as a 21st-century luxury hotel demonstrates best practice in enhancing heritage for a modern world, thanks to input from the original architect Breathing new life into heritage buildings is nothing new for Foster + Partners, but Hong Kong’s Murray Building in …
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- Architecture , Top Story
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- Foster + Partners , heritage , Hong Kong , revitalisation , Ron Phillips , The Murray Building
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New Conservation Architecture protects age-old carvings at Qianfoya Cliffs in Sichuan
An innovative and conservation architecture in Sichuan is protecting centuries-old rock carvings at Qianfoya Cliffs from the elements Sichuan Province in central China is well known for its many historical sites, such as the Leshan Giant Buddha and the ancient Buddhist temples on and around Mount Emei. Not quite so well known — at least …
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- Top Story
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- architecture , art , China , conservation , culture , design , environmental protection , heritage , Qianfoya Cliffs , Sichuan , Tsinghua University’s Architectural Design and Research Institute
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Conran and Partners converts former school into residential development
A Brutalist, former school in south London has been transformed into a residential development by Conran and Partners Originally developed by Architects Co-Partnership (ACP) as a school in 1964, Conran and Partners have turned the complex into a 149-home development. The scheme has restored the Grade II listed school buildings (called the Lilian Baylis School until …
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- Architecture
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- architecture , Building , design , designer , heritage , London , news , United Kingdom
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Exhibition tells stories of Hong Kong through sketches
Sketch Hong Kong recently showcased 30 drawings and paintings depicting famous landmarks and lifestyles in the city They say a picture tells a thousand words. So what would the stories of Hong Kong be like in pictures? One can find the answer to the question in a recent exhibition by Sketch Hong Kong. Founded in …
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- Lifestyle
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- art , Arts in Heritage Research , culture , design , drawing , food , heritage , Hong Kong , news , Sketch Hong Kong , sketching , Yuen Long
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RECORDING HONG KONG’S VOICES
Throughout Perspective’s 15 years, we’ve always strived to be the ‘voice’ of the industry and the people we write about — here, we talk to author Nicole Chabot, who has given a voice to a sector of workers in Hong Kong who often don’t have a chance to speak In Street Life Hong Kong, author …
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- Lifestyle
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- heritage , Hong Kong , Nicole Chabot , Street Life Hong Kong
