Creative Engineering at the Protests in Hong Kong
The whole world is watching Hong Kong, where a battle is playing out in the streets between authorities and citizens protesting China’s encroachment on their independence. It started in June in ...
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Temporary Street Art: Mobile Projector Paints Hong Kong with Modern Chinese Zodiac
Three years after decorating Paris with smartly-dressed animals, street artist Julien Nonnon is back with a project that temporarily adorns the streets of Hong Kong with his own modern version of ...
Kowloon Walled City: Drone Photos Reveal a Re-Growth of Urban Density
Once notorious both for its lawlessness and a maze of urban density so intense that sunlight couldn’t penetrate to its lowest levels, Kowloon Walled City was demolished in the 1990s, but a new ...
Tiny Apartment’s Rooftop Terrace Features Flat-Folding Deck Chairs
A cramped, stale and long-neglected 400-square-foot studio apartment in Hong Kong feels downright luxurious with the addition of a rooftop terrace and some pretty cool space-saving features. ...
Urban Jungle: Dizzying Drone Photos of Hong Kong from Above
Hong Kong has inspired so many iconic images of urban density shot from the ground or horizontally across buildings, but seeing it from above via drone footage gives the city an entirely fresh ...
Lights Out: Hong Kong Bans Iconic Neon Signs from City Streets
In an effort criticized by local businesses as well as global visitors, Hong Kong has deemed neon signage illegal and is ramping up its systematic removal of these historic place-making ...
Painted Praise: Street Art Honors Asia with Iconic Imagery
Spanish street artist Pejac both praises and criticizes elements of various Asian cultures in a new series of outdoor paintings making use of iconic traditional imagery and symbols. Human figures ...
For Shame! Anti-Littering Campaign Uses Sly DNA Collection
Litterbugs usually like to keep their polluting crimes a dirty little secret - but Hong Kong Cleanup wanted to show them that there is no way to hide from the all-seeing eyes of technology. They ...
Aerial Urbanism: Hyper-Dense ‘Cloud City’ Redefines Skylines
A complex spanning in seemingly all directions, this sky-oriented, cloud-shaped, forward-thinking design has just won the Shenzhen Super City Competition in China. It represents a critical way ...
Groundless City: A Guidebook to Underground Hong Kong
Between raised walkways, subways, ferries, cable cars, a multi-block outdoor escalator and extensive double-decker bus system, it is possible to traverse a huge swath of Hong Kong without even ...
