tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32468743320944257832024-03-09T08:36:25.269-08:00iceblogUrbanism, Architecture, EnvironmentUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger73125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3246874332094425783.post-23962499392033920802016-12-21T22:50:00.002-08:002016-12-21T23:09:20.893-08:00Season's Greetings 2016<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Another year has passed. And a successful one. We have currently a few construction sites in Hong Kong and China, a diversity of projects, ranging from master plan to public space to commercial, residential and hotel design. </div>
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One of our projects won the <a href="http://icebloghk.blogspot.hk/2016/12/ice-wins-beam-plus-platinum-provisional.html">Beam Plus Platinum Award</a> last months and we are proud about his achievement since it is a challenging operation to get this certification for a residential tower. </div>
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One of our colleagues, Susanne Trumpf, was certified a BIM consultant of Graphisoft. And we are moving forward with the full integration of BIM into our work process. </div>
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Ulrich Kirchhoff has been appointed member of the Advisory Committee on the Appearance of Bridges and Associated Structures (ACABAS) and is hoping to contribute to the development of Hong Kong as a sustainable and visionary city.</div>
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Of course running and architecture business will never be stable. But you cannot expect stability from architecture alone. Unless there is a profitable side business, architecture will always under perform economically. We expect things to worsen next year. </div>
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One of the challenges for the next year is the expansion of services and businesses under ICE. Further announcements in due time.</div>
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Until then we wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Successful New Year 2017.</div>
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We are proud to announce that our residential mixed use tower project in 48 Caine Road, Central, Hong Kong has received the highest environmental grading in Hong Kong: BEAM PLUS PLATINUM (provisional). </div>
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The project is currently under construction and aims for site completion end of 2017.</div>
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They are at different stages of construction (demolition, preparation of foundation tender, foundation and pile cap work). It was good for the team to collectively see the progress of three of our projects, which are of different programs: mixed use residential pencil tower to mixed use apartment block and office building.<br />
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This year would have been nothing without the dedication, commitment and trust of our colleagues and collaborators.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3246874332094425783.post-45780971860938215702015-12-22T22:03:00.001-08:002015-12-22T22:03:15.083-08:00ICE @ Hainan: CoffeeFor us the fascination of the new Chinese urbanism lies the development of themed cities. They can be based on nearly anything: Flower cities, medical cities and even coffee cities (like in our case) are forming the new urban landscape. Where traditionally a city evolved in all its complexity around trade or defence, the themed urbanism transforms the complexity of cities into a brand. All those new city developments are using similar ingredients that are loaded with an identity, that is either rooted in features found on site and or practices from the region.<br />
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Yet the peculiar identity of the region will be scaled from a potential singular point/building to a city. This scalar change has an interesting effect on the development: Imagine you take the Eiffel Tower in Paris and replicate it as many times as possible throughout the city. What used to be unique becomes ubiquitous. As if one is not enough content to give quality. Repetition becomes reassurance of quality.<br />
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A usual mix of the city looks like this: A vast trading centre with convention area, sales halls and infrastructure hub is surrounded by hotels, entertainment streets and centres, exhibition areas for the theme, offices and a vast area for residential development. All branded, all themed, all empty for the most part.<br />
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When we were approached by the coffee town in Fushan, Hainan, we were fascinated by the idea, that an entire city can evolve around coffee. They took great length to justify the massive development with the obviously delicious local coffee production. <br />
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To our surprise, we were greeted by a gate of Phoenix and Dragon instead of giant coffee beans, followed by an ever so popular italian plaza and village of the most bleak character. Nothing seemed to work together as all buildings were either for trade or administration. We couldn't spot any residential development which at least would have added some life to the public spaces. We enjoyed the coffee however. Delicious and really special. We felt sad, that such exquisite taste cannot be mirrored by the urbanism.<br />
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We were obviously were fascinated by the findings on site and were attracted to the idea of creating a bold statement that takes on the theme of the city and evolves architecture around the idea of nature, leisure, farming and yes, maybe coffee as well. Being in a hilly environment, where slopes were lush and green and used for coffee farming. The breeze from the sea adds a healthy saltiness to the tropical, moist air, which we think is responsible for the delicious taste of the local coffee. We saw a potential to put more emphasis on nature, natural materials, fresh air, outdoor and landscape as the identity to enhance what ever city evolves around the theme of coffee.</div>
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We actually came quite far with this project. There were multiple committee meetings in our favour and we got very excited about the project potentials at some point. However, a few months later, key people of the projects stopped responding to our queries. It fell into the same time of massive arresting of politicians and business figure heads. We were told, that everybody will be playing safe for now and reduce spendings and developments. The Chinese business environment has slowed down by then already and we were sure that such development will be observed suspiciously by the government as well at this point in time. So we abandoned the project with sweet memories of delicious coffee remaining only.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3246874332094425783.post-36143039410817778592015-11-02T18:19:00.000-08:002015-12-22T22:03:37.307-08:00ICE @ Hainan: San Hao YuanIn 2014 we received a few requests from Hainan to collaborate with a local design firm and do design several projects. As a lot of our work is reacting to climatic conditions of the tropical environment, we were excited to have the possibility to potentially build some of these projects.<br />
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Being excited about the return with projects to the beautiful island, we were also hesitant about our project history in Hainan, which continuously ended in some sort of disaster due to the political complications at those times, we were involved in projects:<br />
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We (that time with OMA Asia and Aaron Tan) started engaging with Haikou in 2002 with a large master plan commission for the eastern extension of the city. Big plans drove the local government to double the footprint of the city in the east, planning tourism, convention and leisure and recreation centres along the coast. At that time, Sanya was already a strong brand for tourism with its white beaches and stable tropical climate. Haikou to the contrary is under the influence of the winter monsoon (and therefor colder in winter). Lying opposite to the mainland, beaches are rather diluted with debris from the rivers that flow into the South China Sea.<br />
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With that in mind, we developed a master plan that was the complete opposite from the nature driven Sanya. We didn't have the serene environment to lavish on the tropical paradise. Hence we created attractions in itself in form of themed villages, offering a village for marina-, 'venice'-, mountain-, beach- houses. All were centred around a larger convention plaza with a Brighton style pier park:<br />
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The client even increased our workload and extended the area as he thought that this was the right track. However, shortly after completion of the concept, the extension to the east was scraped by the government, the local leader dismissed and the new chief focussed on the west instead. Couldn't see that coming...<br />
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Our next engagement with Hainan was in 2011. A Hong Kong contractor/developer, whose ancestors came from Wenchang wanted to re-invest into China. And as most of the Chinese who went abroad to make a fortune, they tend to invest into their ancestral home (I guess they assume that still intact family ties help to overcome statutory difficulties in their hometown). So we went to Wenchang for a couple of days to look at potential sites and started a commission for a small office and entertainment building in Wenchang:<br />
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As history repeats at times, the contractor/developer ran into financial difficulties due to his commission on Tamar site works and rather took off to save his soul than pursuing his engagement as a developer in new territory.<br />
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And of course our entire last year of dealing with Hainan is a more or less repeating story. We got interesting designs of which some went further than others, but difficulties were of similar nature: Political change, imprisonment of decision makers, financial difficulties, you name it. In a way they were the signs of a troubling economy and lucky for us, we were confronted by it already in 2014 and started to withdraw from China business quite early already. What we have learned from there is the need for the strongest of partners in China (which we didn't had) as well as our self-indulgent nature of really wanting to do projects. Architects like us have this unbearable absence of business sense. Somebody gives us an opportunity to design and we eagerly work on it without too many questions. We obviously justify our proposals as design research, using the explorations as a formal exercise and ensign practice. This attitude is rooted in the structural problem of our profession, being a discipline that thrives on pro-bono work even during a contract. The nature of competitions (free idea generation), fee proposals with conceptual idea (free proposal upfront) and a vague contract and deliverables culture have paved the road to a self abusive nature of the architect. We are in constant jeopardy of clients taking our ideas and/or choosing somebody who is so much cheaper (service is intangible).<br />
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From proposals and paid designs we have nothing left. Except for portfolios and content for the website. Therefor: Our first Hainan project of 2014 was a small business hotel. Being heavily damaged by several Taifuns and tortured by massive construction mistakes, the hotel was in deere need to redo the facade and obviously all interiors as well. Being one of the first hotels on the route from the airport to the city, we wanted to use the renovation to create a business hotel that allowed for an interpretation of a curtain wall for tropical climate, introducing triangulation and cantilevers to increase self shading elements:<br />
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Just before winter arrives, the main facades are installed. It has been our biggest project yet with a total area of more than 150,000 sqm. It has been one of the more challenging ones, where our involvement stays literally skin deep only (being in charge of the facade and the interiors mainly) with late involvement of us into the project and little room to turn major design decisions prior to us around. </div>
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However, the facade concept is executed very well and with great precision. The changing depth of the mullions and the illumination at night will work well once completed. And we are looking forward to the completion of the project end of 2017. </div>
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Architects have lost autonomy over the entire domain of the building. What was once a holistic profession has transformed into specialisation. The architect's competence has been reduced to design and design management and substantial authority has been transferred to a consultancy model, which can involve easily five or more consultants per project. The architect remains the design manager, however he is not in charge of all aspects of the building planning stage any longer. What is a healthy process to some extend, opening room for more design focus and innovative experimentation, architects loose throughout this tendency the ability to grasp the basic concepts of structure, building services, quantifying, performance of the building. The tendency is reflected in the University already, where engineering education is marginalised. The March 2015 summer semester studio’s objective is to revisit structure as the experimental method and work with it as the main architectural design tool and explore the spatial potentials that lie within the relation of structure and program.</div>
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Architectural space and structure are symbiotic in a building. However, structure as the domain of engineers has lost its relevance as an imminent design tool for architects. In the contemporary production of architecture, structural models merely solve problems of the shape of architecture. The studio will revisit the spatial and design potentials of structure, becoming the driver of concept and space and the therein resulting spatial opportunities. We will chalenge the high rise typology and it’s predominant podium-tower configuration. The studio will specifically investigate the idea of structural transfer.</div>
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The studio was a single term research and design project. The project was a office tower at the University Campus, built over an existing heritage site. Due to the heritage status of the existing building, no new structure could touch the existing building. However, full air rights were granted. The program was framed in terms of two structurally opposing conditions: A generic mass program (office) and a specific site context, that cannot be invaded with structure. The proposed project was limited to a singular highrise structure of 100m. The purpose was to explore the structural transfer between the existing building and the proposed office program.</div>
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Various models of structural transfers will be selected, analyzed and interpreted based on existing buildings.</div>
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Based on different structural methods of transfer of step one, students will focus on one model and develop an architectural project, which transfers between two opposing programs.</div>
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The design method focussed on the use of working models, which were be put through actual structural stress and loading tests through an architectural guillotine, designed by <a href="http://www.arch.hku.hk/staff/faculty-office-staff/holohan-donn/">Donn Holohan</a>. It was not expected that all material produced in the studio would survive the final presentation. However, most of the models showed significant deformations which were the basis for further testing and optimisation of the structural models.</div>
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With our hotel project in Shenyang still ongoing, we have stopped bidding for China jobs for over a year now. It has been a slow process of change in the way architecture is done in the PRC. With the current reconfiguration of power in China, architecture is also subject to change.<br />
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Being back to Hong Kong is a healthy process of humbling down, dealing with the local regulations and high construction costs only, complying with mandatory requirements of sustainability and insurances and health care for co-workers and even us unrelated construction staff. Solutions have to be found within a holistic understanding of a building. We are architects after all and not designers of dreams any longer.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3246874332094425783.post-71176480925566020152015-10-06T18:12:00.004-07:002015-10-12T01:24:53.528-07:00Construction Log October: Hong KongIts been a hard ride for the past year with a very steep learning curve. But construction has started on our first stand alone tower in Hong Kong. Completion is expected in 2017.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3246874332094425783.post-47662054543299853982015-08-28T18:41:00.000-07:002015-10-20T06:44:41.462-07:00New Office AddressOur Hong Kong office has moved. We are now located in Sai Ying Pun, a strategic move to be closer to the University of Hong Kong as well:<br />
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China still offers tremendous opportunities of design. It is a testing ground still for new ideas, yet for foreign architect it stays put at the idea stage only. Site visits and meetings during construction stages stay alibi and are mainly for catching up and personal bonding. We have been debating (and trying) to setup office in China as well, but were limited by too many factors that didn't allow us to run effectively a design AND built office. </div>
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One of our projects in Central is aiming for BEAM Plus Platinum (the highest Hong Kong green label certification). One of the requirements is the reduction of waste and material for which reason the project is tested structurally in a wind tunnel testing facility in order to qualify the potential environmental forces that meet the building. Yet, we have never been to such test lab and yesterday it was the first time our office visited the venue. We were obviously very excited by the lab, surprised by the enormous effort that is put into testing the structure under wind load and stunned by the beauty of the facility. </div>
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We wish all our friends, colleagues and clients a happy New Year of the Horse. With our hotel in Shenyang wrapping up the design stage, we are looking forward to the tender and construction phase. New projects as well as potential opportunities just came in before the New Year break and we are looking forward to an exciting year of new designs and built work.</div>
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We recently have been commissioned to design an extension to our office project in Shenzhen <a href="http://icebloghk.blogspot.hk/2013/03/szxc-completed.html">SZXC</a> in form of a VIP Club with Wine Bar and Tea area. The project will go into construction early next year. </div>
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The project is sought to be a meeting place for clients beyond the office atmosphere, a more casual lounge for the after business meetings. The project will complete the program of the office as an holistic operational environment - even beyond the working hours.</div>
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We love construction sites! Last time we went to site, the basement was excavated and the pile heads done. Two months later we are seeing the ground floor covered, just before winter will halt construction.</div>
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The project is our winning entry for a 90,000 sqm luxury hotel in Shenyang, featuring the one of the larges free spanning ballrooms in China. We are part of a larger consortium (larger means also larger problems, not necessarily better solutions), responsible for the partial design of the architecture, all facades as well as all interiors. The bumpy road gets rewarded by such site visits where you see beside the massive construction problems also the immense large scale of the project - and our ideas becoming real. </div>
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If nothing goes wrong, the superstructure will be up to the top floor (25 floors) by middle of next year. The facade should be finished before the end of 2014. And opening will be in 2015.</div>
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After the sad closure of the <a href="http://icebloghk.blogspot.hk/2013/09/tribute-to-victoria-park-swimming-pool.html">Victoria Park outdoor swimming pool</a>, which we have written about in our last post, we decided to look for our most favorable outdoor pools. Please find below our top 9 in random order:</div>
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Alvaro Siza, Leca</div>
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Beautiful seafront pool that makes use of the natural topographical formation. Rocks are embedded into the pool design. On different platforms, you have a stunning view over the Atlantic Ocean. The pool is fed by seawater only. Some pools are so close to the shore that they are a natural wave pool.</div>
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Serene and Zen, the minimal design enhances the peace and tranquility of the pool. Similar to Siza, natural elements and materials play a vital role to the pool and its atmosphere. </div>
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Pichler+Traubman, Private Pool<br />
Although the pool is very small, it features with the singular operation of a sliced and folded plane a huge variety of functions. From water slide to beach slope to underground elements. The pool picks up the language of the landscape as a topographical change.<br />
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Never built, the pool design makes use of the quality of the section of a pool and makes it the generator for the entire building.</div>
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Moshe Saftie, Marina Bay Sands Sky Park<br />
The proportions of the entire development went very off compared to the commission proposal. Yet, being located above Singapore, the pool is a fine example of what spectacular sight an endless pool can allow for. It is clearly one of the most interesting sightseeing tower experiences, I ever had.<br />
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Plot, Copenhagen Harbour Bath</div>
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Fed by seawater, the pool is framing the nature through topographical transformation of the wooden deck. The pool is built into the river and has a strong presence of the city around it. The beauty of the pool lies in the multi functionality of the wooden deck, which can server as a sunning deck as well as a springboard.</div>
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Built into the centre of the world heritage site at the Zollverein Essen, the pool was planned as an art installation to re inhabit the Zollverein. The contrast to the surrounding creates surreal and magical moments.</div>
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One of the most beautiful swimming experiences I had beyond ocean and lake, was in an eco pool. Spatially very interesting as it blends the garden pond with the functional pool. The importance is that the ratio between heavy planted shallow water (for cleaning and filtering) and the pool itself is at balance. It also takes time to create an equilibrium to the pool. But after that, water quality is unbeatable.</div>
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Pamukkale in Turkey is not man made. It is a natural formation of ponds and puddles. Maybe the most imaginative and design oriented swimming experience - if only it would have been invented by man.</div>
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Being a passionate swimmer myself, I am deeply saddened by the closure of this wonderful urban experience. For the past few years I have spent my daily morning swim in that pool. The best moments were at the beginning of the outdoor swimming season when water was freezing cold and only me and 10 lifeguards were around in the chilling morning sun. My children learned swimming in the pool. I was with them from the time of their first clumsy approaches in the water to the moment they glide naturally through the deep blue.<br />
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Nights at the pool where startling. The pool lied at the edge of Victoria Park, surrounded by the city that formed a formidable background to the scene. The moment the sun set, buildings began to sparkle. First as a reflection of the setting sun, then as a powerful skyline of artificial lights. Whoever knows Hong Kong, knows the seduction of its skyline at night: the fascination of the behemoth of urban invention and innovation.<br />
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And in the middle of the city was this giant pool (during hot summers a rather overheated jacuzzi) from where you could enjoy the beauty of the skyline. It always was a magical and surreal moment, floating in the water and watch the city passing by, day as night alike.<br />
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To me, the swimming pool and the already demolished Kai Tak airport were some of the few formidable metropolitan sights of Hong Kong. They were proofs of the intense effects and collisions of a hyper dense city. But they also demonstrated that you could be at peace within this moloch of a city; it showed that the collision and confrontation can create urban poetry at its best.<br />
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Opened in 1957, the pool has been one of the oldest outdoor pools of Hong Kong, one of the few with a 5m diving pool and a 50 m lap pool with a 10 m dive board. It also features a grand stand for public viewing and a restaurant with pool view. The beauty of the pool lies in its design of the boundaries to the surrounding park. The park landscape was seamlessly translating into the water landscape. Changing rooms were placed under the grand stand to reduce the architectural impact of the pool.<br />
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To my dissatisfaction, the newly constructed indoor pool next door is a large scale architectural mass, with no relation to the context. The design has not benefitted from the subtleness of the outdoor pool, nor from the function of a park as an urban open area for the public. An alien like, disproportionate podium block was designed, which rather resembles a shopping mall than a public swimming pool for leisure and enjoyment. It is understood that an indoor pool is a building, an outdoor pool is a landscape: However a six story disproportionate glass blob which seals off its interior from the surrounding park is a rather cynical answer towards a positive transformation of the city.<br />
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It is a shame as the city of Hong Kong missed the chance (again) to encourage excellency for its public buildings. Instead, they apply commercial and economic logic to their civic construction as well and neglect the social, spatial and historical components that have made Hong Kong what it is in the first place.<br />
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Luckily swimming requires a certain functionality. So I will find myself at peace with the new venue as long as it features a clean 50 m pool and enough space to swim.<br />
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However there must be a reason that the pool was one of the most beloved leisure venues of the citizens. During my last swim at 10 pm, there were a lot of people inside the pool. Most enjoyed the last opportunity to dive in a 5 m deep 50 m olympic size pool. In fact the bottom at 5 m was the most crowded as there will be no pool anymore of this depth. There was a large crowd at the stand, taking pictures of the great view, chatting with the lifeguards and silently but happily and enjoying the scene. Most likely some of them contemplated wether the new pool will be as enriching to the city as the old one.<br />
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When we left the pool as one of the last, we left with the certainty that Hong Kong has sacrificed another urban jewel of its glorious past to the genericness of the commercial world.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I always liked that building as it one of the few buildings in the city that embraces the fact that it sits on a steep slope (most of them tend to ignore the topography and just create a new flat ground). The West Wing is offering multiple levels of entries and acts as a sectional device at the foot of the mountain that becomes the Peak. On the points of interface between mountain and building, there were a few public anchor points, that are specifically highlighted architectural and volumetric: A retaining wall that extends into the ground lobby and a cantilevered box in the middle of the building, that acted as a canteen and event space. It is not necessarily a mind blowing building, but a modest proposal for a modern post war architecture.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Most importantly however is the fact, that the building hits Queen's Road Central at its front end, the most central of all Hong Kong roads, forming the spine of the CBD of the city. Its back end leads into an extensive green zone that contains the zoo, Hong Kong Park and eventually leads towards the Peak and its nature reserves around. The urbanism is fascinating around the building. City on one, nature on the other side. The West Wing is the wedge between the two. Unfortunately it is a hostile one as it is programmatically detached from both.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As usual in the debate about preservation in Hong Kong, it is not the architectural value that makes the building worth it, but the social condition it created and are now considered part of the collective memory. In case of the West Wing it was the public consultation counter (the first of its kind in a governmental building) and the cantilevered box that was hosting parties for young people once in a while. It made the building a very public space in the eyes of the people. It nearly introduced participative opportunities for the community. I guess this memory is growing stronger every day especially as the current government lacks the will to offer participation for the public. Neither is it willing to create opportunities for young people or emerging entrepreneurship.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When we were approached to do a proposal for the West Wing, we were wondering how we can enhance social conditions spatially. And how can we then make those spatial potentials social again. We wanted to transform the building, yet preserve its functional status as a public incubator inside a governmental compound.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Our proposal was a most simple one: We introduced an escalator that connects the lower urban fabric with the mid-level of the building that contains the cantilevered box as well as an upper plaza. Connecting the public spaces inside and outside the building by an external circulatory system manifests the social and public value of the building and allows to open the building for more civic functions (in fact as it used to be).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Unfortunately the building will be given back to the government and the legislative counsel which will make it highly unlikely to be open to public ever again. Being a security fortress now, the building will finally be a very hostile one to the urban fabric. The question remains if a demolition of the building would have not been more beneficial in the end as it would have introduced commercial spaces as well as civic functions to the site. Even more unfortunate at this point is that the initiative which was fighting for the remain of the West Wing is silent since the building is preserved. And this although the West Wing is even more demolished and stripped of its social function at this point.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Although spatial preservation is guaranteed, the building lacks its socially relevant dimension by converting it to a state of privateness and disclosure.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In regards to the debate whether or not West Wing deserves a Grade I Preservation status, our Louise Low has presented an article to the public to the debate in April:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">A casual urban wanderer through the verdant hillside along Battery Path, behind the HSBC tower, may look up and wonder about the curious building perched at the top - its facade has not been usurped by giant billboards, display merchandise do not crowd its windows, its structure is unadorned by LED lights. In the midst of the shimmering edifices driven by commercial and economic impulses, it silently advertises itself as a concrete anomaly in the vortex of heavy traffic, a fort against the flux of alluring goods and money.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">The staid West Wing, together with the Central and East Wing, is part of the conglomerate of former Central Government Offices (CGO) in an area marked as “Government Hill.”</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">Plotted at a fengshui-blessed axis to the Government House and the Court of Final Appeal, it housed the body of the Civil Service workhorse tasked with the straight forward mandate of safeguarding the interests of Hong Kong and its people. The psyche geography of the triumvirate as guardian is etched in the undulating topography of Government Hill.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Built in the 1950s, the CGO’s abandonment of the florid, conservative neo-classical colonial tradition and embrace of post-war Modernism</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> paved the way for Hong Kong's first steps towards an image of the City as reflected by the "International Style" movement, harbinger of new social and political ideals. The symbols of state power and class structure gave way to a more global and egalitarian aesthetic.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Spartan minimalism and structural exposure spoke of an honesty, integrity and openness, </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">of a more idealistic era when "government" seemed closer to the ordinary lives of people as mirrored in its modest, streamlined architecture.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Meticulous documentation in defense of its essence can be found in a sensitive publication by CUHK, “The Greatest Form has No Shape” and on the website “</span><a href="http://www.governmenthill.org/" style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #2800ac; letter-spacing: 0px;">http://www.governmenthill.org</span></a><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">/”, with embedded videos of significant emotional impact - an interview with the former Director of public Works, Michael Wright, describing the assiduous search for iron-free granite from Diamond Hill, as well as a silent film of the construction crew, both men and women, hewing stoically, shaping the land’s destiny with the same tenacity and fierce determination of those used to “eating bitter” - scornful of obstacles, unfazed under the blistering heat of mid-summer.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">These will likely be all that is left of the history and collective societal memory embodied in these structures should current government plans to sell and redevelop the much coveted site forge ahead.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">While the announcement of intent tiptoes nervously around talk of more profit accruing to government coffers, the debate hinges on the relative “lack of architectural merits” of the buildings. Some find them “ugly.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Indeed, </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">they are “ugly” among the diamond-cut designer towers in Central the way a well-worn white cotton shirt is “ugly” next to highly embellished, lavish designer fashion.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">Grim, austere, dour, astringent, stern, stark...a monastery whose architecture conveyed the clarity of purpose, that of chaste, dedicated service.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The aesthetic of simplicity and humility is understandably anathema to the current vogue for flashier architecture. It evokes a nostalgia of a different Hong Kong society. It offers a provocative contrast, and a rebuke to excesses. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">As night follows day, the pendulum inevitably swings. </span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The economy of the past decade, inebriated on free-flowing liquidity and bubbly real estate, sprouted fantastical, mega-budget, iconoclastic architecture of an irrational exuberance in important cities all over the world. The precipitous fall of the ill-fated $1.2billion Millennium Dome of London and the Experience Music Project of Seattle from feted trophies to mocked effigies come to mind. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">As bubbles burst and the hangover sets in, have our eyes made the necessary, timely adjustment in the cold light of day to judge with dry lucidity an architecture from a more sober age while under the lingering influence of the taste for intoxicating monumental follies?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">From the perspective of preservation, does aesthetics even matter? Styles emerge from the history of a society, and the imperative of history is to record and narrate past truths, to capture their meaning for the unfolding present and future.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Buildings are not preserved based on market worth, maintenance costs or beauty but on the merits of their social meaning, singularity, urban memory and historic relevance.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Examples of preserved modernity include Tel Aviv’s “White City” which was awarded Unesco World Heritage status in 2003. In recognition of the need, the World Monument Fund launched “Modernism at Risk”, an advocacy and conservation program for Modern buildings in 2006. (see <a href="http://www.wmf.org/advocacy/modernism"><span style="color: #2800ac; letter-spacing: 0px;">http://www.wmf.org/advocacy/modernism</span></a>)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">It is no surprise, then, that a government which now prides itself on its business acumen should offer up more bargains. After all, Hong Kong is the proverbial shopper’s paradise, the erasure of its history and a lobotomized memory is but a small price to pay for fattened public coffers. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">As what’s good for big business is good for Hong Kong, an unlimited Plot Ratio and GFA should be offered to the highest bidding developers who may jointly build, market and sell as much as they may possibly wring out of the site. Whom but the most endowed, wealthy and powerful elite in Hong Kong deserve the right to move into Government Hill? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">Finally, this symbolic demolition of the last frontier between the public and the private will no doubt be an event as celebrated in Hong Kong as the Fall of the Berlin Wall. To maximize proceeds, the government could auction the buildings piece by piece on eBay to serial sentimentalists or enterprising opportunists who flip them for even greater gains. It is not that the remnants of these buildings and what they once represent should not be consigned to the dustheap of history, but why should every last stone not be parlayed into payoff?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We have been approached via email by a company (Bapeqs Group) from Qatar, which asked us if we are interested in designing a shopping mall in Qatar. It sounded like a great opportunity: USD 60,000,000 budget for 12,500 sqm, sustainable design approach with targeted green certification. Of course we were interested.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Yet we were concern how they got to know us as you don't do multimillion dollar business with somebody you don't know at all. For sure</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Qatar is booming, far away from us and they do have a lot of architectural practices in the region. Our repeated question on how they came about to contact was finally answered with: Our CEO instructed us to contact you after his last trip to China.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It was suspicicious that no connection could be made to anybody we know. Too good to be true. However we stupidly caught us already thinking about some sketch design ideas and talking to an environmental consultant who had a branch office in Doha as well. It is the stupidity of the architect that makes him do these irrational moves. It must be the urge to create that overrides logic and reason. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We were asked to submit a brief office CV and introduction and they told us they scheduled a meeting among the board of directors to discuss, which architect to select for the project. Eventually they selected us as the appointed architect and issued a formal letter stating their choice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Around that time a befriended architect, who is exclusively doing non-commercial small scale work with no commercial experience whatsoever, asked me if I had experience in working in Qatar. He received this email about a shopping mall design. He was getting rather excited about it, yet tried to maintain a face of skepticism, but was very keen to believe it could be true. I surely realized that moment how blinded I have been for the moment: my ego was pleased when somebody wants to work with you. I felt reassured that my work is great and globally relevant if somebody contacts you from the far outer regions of the planet. What a dumb and puny nature is the common architect (such as myself).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">However, with the new information of unlikely coincidence, I was getting curious on how this would end and why would somebody do this? What's the catch? Our environmental engineer told us to hope for the best but prepare for the worst.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I received an email by the client to invite us to Qatar with up to 5 people. They informed us that Qatar has strict requirements for architects. Every company that wants to work in Qatar has to register with the AARCQ first. The registration comes with a price tag of USD 2,100, wired via Western Union. So here was the catch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Luckily I am a stingy person so I contacted the client that he should bear the costs of the registration, upon which he replied that they spoke to the AARCQ, which passed the responsibility of fee payment to the architect only. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Luckily I was cured mentally enough already to decided to play that game a bit longer for at least gaining some entertainment and laughter from the incident. I contacted the AARCQ myself and ask them for advise on how to deal with the registration fee and this is their reply:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"Thanks for contacting us. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Architect's Accreditation Registration Council of Qatar represents the architectural profession in Qatar. It is engaged in producing an extensive series of practice, management and law reports on matters related to architectural practices and building in Qatar generally. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">One of its main functions is to initiate, define and assist in the implementation of program and co-operation in the development of architectural education, practice and research in Qatar. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It is mandatory for an international company to register with AARCQ to proceed a project in Qatar. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">For your registration follow the link below for the registration form</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It is your duty as an Architect to obtain this we do not allow client to do this because may client hide under their architects to register draftsman </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">AARCQ international Verification officer to Asia is in United Kingdom , this will help make the Verification faster with help of the international verification officer we will be enable to issue the certificate within 7 working days.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Please note that all international registration payment is through western union money transfer, it is written on the form. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The complete address and the name of the verification officer that will pick up the funds on our behalf is below , make the payment in favor of the person stated below.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I hope to hear from you , thanks for contacting us."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I was wondering after such an email, if anybody would ever be so naive to pay as a foreign firm to an address in London on behalf of a government body of Qatar for a project in the Middle East? Apparently and sadly there are such cases. An Internet research shows that this fraud has been ongoing for a few months now (NL-Architects also wrote about this in their blog): </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I contacted the so called client again and asked them to bear the fee while we do the submission. He returned with the following email:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"If you can not handle this we can not do another thing. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Did for we pay for your school fees for you to become and architect why is this so hard for you. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">For us to continue you have to do it yourself"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I finally returned his email with the following self-satisfactory answer:</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">As they don't seem to care who pays the fees, please kindly transfer the USD 2,100 on our behalf to the person in London. Send us the western union slip and we will do the submission of the documents."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I was surprised by the professionalism of the fraud and want to take the chance to warn other architects about this. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">These people really put an effort in with creating websites and hold up a conversation for quite some time. At first glance everything looks slightly plausible. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I think they do understand us architects rather well: vain to the bone, in desperate need for recognition, blindfolded to fraud due to the immense competition in our profession worldwide and the need to grasp any opportunity that occurs. Already we do competitions for free, so why not pay a registration fee for a project. We willingly give away freebies and undermine our competence as a business. So why not doing a fraud that targets the naivity of the profession as a whole? Luckily we got away with a good laugh. I hope that this post helps others to not fall into this trap.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">PS: This was our final email to the "client", concluding our conversation. Obviously there was no answer ever again:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hi Mubarak bin Ali,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Thanks for your email. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As it says on their website that the AARCQ is a statutory board under the ministry of works and housing, I have taken the liberty to contact the ministry of interior of Qatar to verify the payment procedure. It turned out that there is no such ministry of works and housing or the AARCQ. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I am afraid to inform you that you have been scammed by some filthy individuals who want to fraud honorable clients such as yourself. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Luckily nobody has been harmed financially up to now. As there is also no need to register our company in Qatar according to the ministry of interior, we can go ahead with the project for now. We are looking forward for a successful collaboration. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Please book the tickets for 4 of our staff as well as accommodation. As the flight is longer than 4 hours, international business practice requires business class for the directors (in our case 2 people). As we need to understand the local conditions better, we would suggest to stay for a total of 4 days. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Please let me know what information you need to book the flights. </span></div>
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We were looking for a concept that makes the display easier to use, easier to view as well as easier to compare and find colors within. We decided to design a column where all tread cones will be visible to the exterior. In order to be able to compare different colors and thread qualities, we designed the column as an interactive system of stacked plates which can rotate agains each other.</div>
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One of the agenda of the display was to be more space efficient than the storage cabinet. We introduced a Kanban system, which holds two cones in a container, while one acts as a reserve. With the built in storage system no further space is required within the factories and samples can be easily replace once they are used.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hong Kong has one of the densest urbanized areas in the world. Densification has been consistently pushed higher over the last 50 years. From the traditional chinese shophouse dwelling which barely exceeded two stories and created a low rise high density, the density in metropolitan areas of the city reaches for domestic use alone up to plot ratio 10 nowadays.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">While the traditional urban density consisted of low rise high density structures, a building had a large surface as space, serving as a public interface and semi public realm. In urbanized areas buildings were mainly shophouses with 2-4 floors of which the ground floor was commercial and public space for the inhabitants of the building. Its floor ratio of public and private space was around 1:1.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The challenge to the densification of the city is not the fact that buildings get taller. The challenge is the ratio of public space to private space, which disadvantages the public space exponentially. Even more, the building codes favor prescriptive measures to maintain public spaces (indoor or outdoor alike) at the bottom 4-6 floors. It implies that the city is not divided anymore by the plan layout of roads but by a sectional division of a small and condensed public city below 6 floors and a massive private city up to 50 floors above that datum. The floor ratio between private space and public space (as per maximum allowable number of floors for each area) shifts to a 12:1 ratio in the current metropolitan environment. As street profiles remain the same within redeveloped areas, the increased density affects the quality of the urban environment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The implications on the city are huge and visible all over the city. Recent transformations are accelerated by the construction of new MTR lines around the city. The effects of the density are affecting especially those old areas of the city that have evolved along the hillsides: Smaller streets and thinner blocks are dictated by the topography. A random urban quarter in Sai Ying Pun around the Centre Street Market - one of the oldest districts in Hong Kong - shows the dramatic effects of the density increase in relation to the narrow road network:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The question arises if the regulations are too traditional for cities that shift towards a high density environment? Particular in Hong Kong, the reality of the regulations is of prescriptive nature rather than descriptive, leaving little room for flexibility and adaptability of architecture. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Understanding the commercial driving force behind the maximization of private (sellable) space, yet with limited space for public and commercial activities left, the management and distribution of those should be revisited and made more flexible in favor of a better sectional condition of the vertical cities. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Being great supporters of hyper densification of our metropolitan environments, our design </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">practice is always confronted with the limitations of the building codes and their simple plan oriented codes. The acceptance the plan itself as the main planning guideline ignores the complexity of high density environments; a complexity which affects plan, section, profiles in a more challenging way with way more negative side effects than it would do in a low density environment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The question remains why vertical and sectional zoning has not been introduce yet as guidelines for a high density environment. For the benefit of improved living conditions and better urban environments, two dimensional planning has to consider more the reality of three dimensional potentials. Vertical Urbanism has been the focus of our commercial practice as well as of our academic research.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Solutions we are currently investigating as a feasibility study are the potentials of updating sectional planning parameters for high density environments, such as introducing a verticality ratio as well as vertical parcel lots:</span></div>
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After seeing the final judging results we realized that the client had a choice between two very similar schemes (ours was one of them). Yet our muscles are limited compared to the muscles of one of the largest architectural practice in the world which won the project. <br />
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What this competition revealed to us is that we either compete on that level in terms of investment beyond the project and design or we shift to boutique style small scale projects. As the later decision would defeat the purpose of the setup of our company in the first place. Hence we are currently struggling about which way to go further with dignity and integrity. It is a long way to go still...<br />
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