Neighbourhood #7 : Shanghai – Redefining communal spaces within skyscrapers
source: http://www.allposters.com/-sp/Shanghai-Skyscrapers-Posters_i8649610_.htm source: http://www.jkr.co.uk/design-gazette/chinese-graffiti/ source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/artyj/299806448/ ...
Queenstown – the cradle of Singapore’s housing development
Queenstown MRT Station signage and HDB flats flanking the MRT station in the background Picture adapted from : http://shutterventures.wordpress.com/ Queenstown was the first Satellite new town to be proposed in Singapore. It the proposed site for Queenstown was an amalgamation of acquired land from the Commissioner of Lands in 1926 and the villagers. The...
“Embedded memory” of the Blue House
Blue House Cluster Regeneration requires a comprehensive and integrated vision aimed at lasting improvement through measures that resolve a range of problems in the urban domain. The notion of ‘embedded memory’ is bound up with time, place and culture. Most remaining heritage buildings in Hong Kong have been re-branded with functions that are very different...