“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...
Place making and identity in housing estates: who murdered public spaces in HDB estates?
Almost Void Deck – HDB Serangoon © Übersee ‘Void decks’ or the vacant space on the ground level of each block became an architectural feature of HDB residential blocks from the 1970s onwards – as the ‘sheltered space in the ground floor’ of most blocks [Ooi and Tan, 1992], designed to fulfil a number of different functions....