Kowloon Walled City, Hong Kong
2 Comments | August 22nd, 2007

Image of Kowloon walled city, just in case you’re wondering why in the world did their forefathers named the place Kowloon, let us take a journey back some few hundred years ago.
Long long time ago, in a kingdom far far away, a Chinese emperor traveled to this new area and saw 8 mountains. During the [...]



Michael Wolf Architecture of Density
1 Comment | June 21st, 2007

image source: Michael Wolf
This public housing estate in Hong Kong is known as Shek Kip Mei Estate, it has 100 rooms (also known as home), 100 square feet each and was constructed in response to a devastating fire that left thousands of people homeless.
These images by Michael Wolf has totally change my perspective on the [...]



Bamboo scaffolding towers in Hong Kong
2 Comments | February 19th, 2007

I was reading archidose and found this image kind of interesting, its an image of bamboo scaffolding in Hong Kong. Its kind of weird when construction technology has improved so much that I see no reason why should someone use bamboo as scaffolding. I’ve never been to Hong Kong but from most images and TV [...]




     

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