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about 3 months ago (02/12/2024)
Harbour views are prized in Hong Kong, but a renovation of a flat with huge windows makes the most of its vistas of verdant hillsides to create a restful interior with notes of wood and stone....
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about 3 months ago (02/07/2024)
Ma Yansong is arguably China’s most globally prominent architect, with his studio, MAD Architects, behind many eye-catching projects...
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about 3 months ago (02/06/2024)
Architect at the cutting edge: how making Chinese paper decorations became Nick Tsao’s second career | South China Morning Post Architect at the cutting edge: how making Chinese paper decorations became Nick Tsao’s second career Profile Nick Tsao talks about the Foster + Partners internship that led to him becoming an architect, learning the art of paper cutting and promoting Hong Kong culture Kate Whitehead + FOLLOW Published: 7:15am, 7 Feb, 2024 Why you can trust SCMP My parents were both born in Hong Kong and went to boarding school in the UK, where they met while at university...
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about 3 months ago (01/28/2024)
A Hong Kong village house with a Balinese vibe brings Scandinavian, Moroccan and Japanese elements together seamlessly – and it all started with a single-line drawing....
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about 5 months ago (12/17/2023)
Opinion | How a Russian artist and his daughter bonded over their shared love for Macau | South China Morning Post Advertisement Advertisement George Smirnoff with Irene in Kowloon, Hong Kong, in 1941...
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about 5 months ago (12/17/2023)
With Huizhen High School in China’s Ningbo city winning the World Building of the Year 2023 at the World Architecture Festival, we find out how its architecture helps release students’ academic pressure....
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about 5 months ago (12/09/2023)
When work on one of Hong Kong’s most Instagram-friendly places, Choi Hung Estate, was announced, and the day it opened | South China Morning Post Advertisement Advertisement From our archives + FOLLOW Get more with my NEWS A personalised news feed of stories that matter to you Learn more One of Hong Kong’s most Instagram-friendly places, the rainbow-coloured Choi Hung Estate in Kowloon, was announced in 1957, its construction approved in 1960 and its official opening held in December 1963...
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about 5 months ago (12/08/2023)
Architect Georges Hung and his wife lived for three months in their Discovery Bay home before deciding how to renovate it...
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about 5 months ago (12/07/2023)
Interior design trends for 2024: tech, towels, terracotta, bold marble, faux nature, curves – experts and AI make their predictions | South China Morning Post Advertisement Advertisement Architecture and design + FOLLOW Get more with my NEWS A personalised news feed of stories that matter to you Learn more UK-based designer Kelly Hoppen says marble is set to be used in dramatic ways - not just as a neutral backdrop: black and white marble laid geometrically, she says, makes a statement...
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about 5 months ago (12/03/2023)
She’s bringing community back to Hong Kong through designing micro-parks: meet Marisa Yiu | South China Morning Post She’s bringing community back to Hong Kong through designing micro-parks: meet Marisa Yiu Profile Design Trust Futures Studio has dotted micro-parks across Hong Kong with one goal in mind: creating communities...
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about 5 months ago (12/02/2023)
‘I thought I was god’s gift to China’: art gallery owner Pearl Lam on her ‘colonial attitude’ and embracing her ethnicity | South China Morning Post ‘I thought I was god’s gift to China’: art gallery owner Pearl Lam on her ‘colonial attitude’ and embracing her ethnicity Profile Art gallery owner Pearl Lam on growing up as the daughter of property tycoon Lim Por-yen, losing her colonial mindset and celebrating diversity Kate Whitehead + FOLLOW Published: 7:45am, 3 Dec, 2023 Why you can trust SCMP I was born in Hong Kong and lived in Jardine’s Lookout...
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about 5 months ago (12/01/2023)
Opinion | How shoddy building construction prompted Hong Kong’s love of glazed ceramic tiles | South China Morning Post Advertisement Advertisement A worker cleans the dust-pink glazed ceramic tiles on the Hong Kong Cultural Centre in Tsim Sha Tsui...
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about 5 months ago (12/01/2023)
As 3 historic Hong Kong urban villages face demolition, can anything save them from destruction? | South China Morning Post As 3 historic Hong Kong urban villages face demolition, can anything save them from destruction? History Ngau Chi Wan, Chuk Yuen and Cha Kwo Ling are set to be replaced by homogenous residential blocks, despite the efforts of historians, architects and academics Martin Williams + FOLLOW Published: 7:15am, 2 Dec, 2023 Why you can trust SCMP Along a narrow path through a centuries-old village sits a grey-brick house with granite blocks around the doorway....
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about 5 months ago (11/25/2023)
Enlarged windows, glass bricks and balustrades allow light to flow through Hong Kong village home after renovation | South China Morning Post Advertisement Advertisement Architecture and design + FOLLOW Get more with my NEWS A personalised news feed of stories that matter to you Learn more When work was thin during the pandemic, an interior designer tapped her employees to overhaul her family’s three-storey villa with garden in Sai Kung, Hong Kong...
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about 5 months ago (11/24/2023)
18 captivating artworks on 4 islands: Hong Kong festival draws visitors into the lives and histories of Sai Kung’s outlying islanders | South China Morning Post Advertisement Advertisement Architecture and design + FOLLOW Get more with my NEWS A personalised news feed of stories that matter to you Learn more “Sails”, by Inkgo Lam, on Kau Sai Chau, is one of 18 artworks spread across four of east Hong Kong’s outlying islands that form part of the Sai Kung Hoi Arts Festival...
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about 5 months ago (11/22/2023)
She saves Hong Kong’s neon signs, but it was a Taiwanese mansion that triggered her journey | South China Morning Post Advertisement Advertisement Architecture and design + FOLLOW Get more with my NEWS A personalised news feed of stories that matter to you Learn more Cardin Chan is general manager of Tetra Neon Exchange, which rescues and preserves Hong Kong’s disappearing neon signs...