ADDRESSING THE NEEDS OF VULNERABLE GROUPS IN HONG KONG Siu Lam Integrated Rehabilitation Services Complex is built as part of a special initiative with the Social Welfare Department (SWD) of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region to strengthen support for persons with disabilities and their families. It provides 1,700 places for one-stop services with two types […]
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The residential developments of Queens Hill Estate (comprising seven public rental housing blocks) and the adjacent Shan Lai Court (comprising six subsidised sale flats blocks) are situated in the rural area of Hong Kong, at Queen’s Hill, Fanling in the New Territories. The site used to be part of an abandoned military camp before the […]
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Maggie’s Centres were one of the early pioneers of salutogenic design. They were the brainchild of Maggie Jencks, who, like so many others before her, felt the psychological toll of the hospital environment during her battle with cancer. In her memoir, A View from the Front Line, she wrote, “Simply finding your way round is […]
ADAPTING TO SITE CONTEXT While many places in the world are still using fresh water for toilet flushing, Hong Kong has been extensively adopting seawater for flushing since the 1950s, covering about 85 per cent of its population.1 This allows the precious fresh water to be preserved for potable purposes. However, such a system is […]
Atop a verdant hill in Tai Po, closely overseeing the Tolo Harbour in the old days before reclamation, stands the first police station and headquarters in Hong Kong’s New Territories. It was constructed in 1899 during the early British colonial period and became the region’s oldest surviving police station that was well in use until […]
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Hong Kong is one of the world’s most densely populated regions. At the same time, it has one of the lowest birth rates worldwide (and all-time lowest recorded) at 0.774 per woman of child-bearing age as of 2021. According to the designers behind this project, 10 per cent of Hong Kong’s workforce or around 400,000 […]
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In line with our ongoing student competition FuturArc Prize (FAP) 2022: Reinterpretation, we are highlighting previously published projects that follow the theme. Click here to learn more about the brief and to submit your entries for FAP! An adaptive reuse of heritage The historical Chai Wan Factory Estate (CWFE), which was granted Grade II Historic […]
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Portland Street is one of the most popular streets in the Kowloon Peninsula, Hong Kong, known for its various retailers, bazaars, local restaurants and hourly hotels. Located in the Yau Ma Tei area, it has a long history as a harbour village that lives on to this day—including a century-old fruit market, a 1930s theatre, […]
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Inspired by the suburban campus of the Chinese University of Hong Kong that has been developed on the green terrain facing Tolo Harbour, the hostels are designed to embrace the natural surroundings and assemble a Greenhostel village for knowledge sharing and communal living. The design takes advantage of the existing topography and vistas to create […]
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Nestled among tree canopies and verdant public hiking trails, the University of Chicago’s new Asian campus—The Hong Kong Jockey Club University of Chicago Academic Complex I The University of Chicago Francis and Rose Yuen Campus in Hong Kong—was inspired by the site’s challenging topography, panoramic views and remnants of its military past. The single, curvilinear […]
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The campus lies at the geographical centre of a built-up urban district in the eastern part of Hong Kong Island. The site area is about 9,930 square metres, accessible by public transport and located within walking distance of mass transit railway stations. It abuts a future park to the southeast, a bus depot to the […]
As a commercial redevelopment project, K11 Atelier King’s Road addresses some of the common issues of office buildings, such as sub-par indoor environmental quality for human health; isolation from the local community; and underutilisation of space during non-working hours. The project is the world’s first building to have achieved the WELL Building Standard’s (core and […]
