Hong Kong

Hong Kong:

World Building of the Year 2017: the winner is a project for Guangming village

Architecture students from the Chinese University of Hong Kong updated traditional building technologies to support earth-quacked Guangming villagers to build anti-seismic and sustainable homes with affordable materials.

Post-earthquake reconstruction of Guangming – Courtesy of WAF 2017. The Chinese University of Hong Kong won the World Building of the Year Award with the post-earthquake reconstruction and demonstration project…

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Low lighting and marble to create "cold and lonely" mood inside Tuve hotel

The challenge of the project was to enhance the materials' natural beauty and unleash design possibilities

Atmospheric photographs of a Swedish lake provided the reference material for this Hong Kong hotel, which Design Systems has lined with flecked marble and textured concrete. A hotelier approached the Hong Kong design studio with a…

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