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Inside Tai Kwun, Hong Kong’s largest revitalisation project
Tai Kwun has been on quite a journey, from colonial-era relic to 21st-century hub for art and culture. Perspective takes a closer look at Hong Kong’s largest revitalisation project For more than a decade, the site occupied by the Central Police Station, Central Magistracy and Victoria Prison was Hong Kong’s reigning white elephant. The cluster …
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- Architecture , Top Story
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- Herzog & de Meuron , Hong Kong , Marc & Chantal , Purcell , revitalisation , Rocco Design Architects , Tai Kwun
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Rocco Yim on four decades of work and the Hong Kong Palace Museum controversy
Architect Rocco Yim is on a mission to change the way the public interacts with cultural institutions. He speaks to Perspective about the new Hong Kong Palace Museum and the initial controversy associated with the project “I think of architecture as the art of problem-solving. There are always problems that need addressing, not just in …
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- Architecture , Top Story
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- architect , architecture , Hong Kong , Hong Kong Palace Museum , Museum , Rocco Design Architects , Rocco Yim
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Rocco Design Architects represents at Aedes Architecture Forum
Rocco Design Architects has become the first Hong Kong-based firm to participate in the Aedes Architecture Forum in Berlin Hong Kong-based architectural firm Rocco Design Architects (RDA) was invited by Aedes Architecture Forum in Berlin to exhibit works in its gallery. Titled Intensity: The Work of Rocco Design Architects, Hong Kong, the exhibition showcased RDA’s current major projects and was opened to the …
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- Architecture
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- Aedas , architecture , Berlin , design , exhibition , Germany , Hong Kong , interior design , Rocco Design Architects , travel
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A place and its makers
Perspective investigates the architecture scenes in five Asian cities with the help of sought-after local architects with deep-rooted associations and affection for the urban settings which they call home DATELINE: Hong Kong There is a Chinese saying which goes, “The sparrow may be small, but all its vital organs are there.” It is also a …
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- Architecture
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- Chu Hai College of Higher Education , Chungking Mansion , Hong Kong , Rocco Design Architects , Rocco Yim
