Over the past four decades, Hong Kong painter Yeung Tong Lung has explored various techniques and mediums. Since the 1990s, he has worked primarily in oil, and then around 2000...
A growing number of people residing in high-density cities like Hong Kong are aspiring towards a way of living that is both sustainable and regenerative. Rooftop gardens of fruits and...
Eighty years ago, Tuen Mun was known as Castle Peak, the centre of Hong Kong’s flourishing pottery industry. Little evidence remains of this trade history, except for the Castle Peak Dragon...
Mirroring Hong Kong’s own remarkable growth, My 36 Years of Model-making illustrates how King Chung was, as his colleagues described him, “probably the best” architectural model-maker in Hong Kong and how he...
No one has built more city buildings in Hong Kong than the architect Rocco Yim. A sequel to Being Chinese in Architecture published in 2004, Presence highlights a collection of Rocco Yim’s 14 architecture...
Claim. Reclaim. Occupy. Enlarge. Extend. These are everyday words in Hong Kong. In the high density district of Sham Shui Po, which translates as ‘Deep Water Pier’ for its former...
The box is a theatrical music ensemble founded by Kung Chi Shing and Peter Suart in Hong Kong in 1987. The two founders share an interest in experimental music, improvisation,...
Liu Waitong emigrated to Hong Kong in 1997. In the early 2000s, he moved to Beijing for several years before returning to Hong Kong. Within these peripatetic movements, he has...
Foodscape is a collection of poetry, essays, and photographs about food, created during an exchange between Swiss and south Chinese authors. Sensual workshops, readings, and discussions made it possible for participants...
No landscape ever stays the same, although in memories and photographs, we can try to keep things just as they are. If there was ever a landscape in flux and in...
Shek Kip Mei Estate was one of Hong Kong’s first public housing projects, built to provide immediate relief to the 53,000 migrants and refugees who lost their squatter-homes to a...
Hong Kong is often cited as the city with the most high-rise buildings and highest population density. Yet more skyscrapers are being built to fulfill economic ends. Various reclamation projects...