City of Imagination: Kowloon Walled City 20 Years Later

The Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong was once the densest place on earth, a virtually lawless labyrinth of crime, grime, commerce and hope. A Wall Street Journal documentary tracks its colorful legacy and brings the place alive 20 years later. by Wall Street Journal

The Sea Ranch

The Sea Ranch is a 1970’s luxury residential development in a remote area of Hong Kong’s Lantau Island. After initial boom, it experienced fall in prices, decline in occupancy and mismanagement. In 2008, “TimeOut Hong Kong” compared it to a city hit by a neutron bomb. It wrote: “The southwest Lantau ghost town is shabby, […]

Tour A Spectacular Oceanfront Home Without Walls

Architect West Chin takes us on a private tour of a unique contemporary oceanfront home in Long Beach, New York, that he designed with retractable glass windows to be completely open to the property’s spectacular beach vista by plumtv WCA is a full-service architecture, interior design and decorating firm based in New York City. West Chin, […]

liu jiakun Interview (Sub Eng)

liu jiakun works as the chief architect of jiakun architects since its foundation of 1999. he is believed as one of the best and most-talented chinese contemporary architects. his works are described as “focus on the reality, respect the local context, embedded in the environment, and extract the folk technique”, “presenting the contemporary architecture thinking […]

AIA 2014 National Architecture Week – Evelyn Lee 2014 AIA Young Architect Award Recipient

The video is brought to you by the Practice of Architecture (www.practiceofarchitecture.com) and was created for the AIA for the 2014 National Architecture Week. Evelyn is one of the recipients of the 2014 National AIA Young Architects Award and a Senior Strategist at MKThink (www.mkthink.com). by Practice of Architecture

Hua Art Museum, Shenzhen, China

SHOOTING by Pier Alessio Rizzardi, DIRECTING by Pier Alessio Rizzardi, Zhang Hankun by TCA Think Tank

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Grand opening of Galaxy SOHO mall in Beijing – Zaha Hadid

The opening party was in November 2011 and it was conceived and executed by the event Agency Emotion. As part of Emotion team, I was involved in the gala dinner event management.  

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B.F.A. architecture student Jennifer Idrobo (eng subtitles)

Architecture student Jennifer Idrobo shares how she can pursue her passions in architecture, art and fashion in the community of artists at SCAD. by SCAD – The University for Creative Careers

Forget sustainable, productive architecture is the next big thing: Dong-Ping Wong at TEDxDumbo

Architect Dong-Ping Wong, part of the team looking to build a pool in New York’s East River, introduces the concept of productive architecture, where designs aim to actually increase resources. by TEDxTalks

Guangzhou TV Tower – China

Mark Hemel and Barbara Kuit and their practice Information Based Architecture from Amsterdam, designed the Canton Tower while competing in an international invited competition. The competition was held in 2004. It asked for the design of the tower, a 17.9ha park at its base and the master-plan for the surrounding 56.6ha which includes an elevated […]