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Urban Design
Sat-in a public lecture titled ‘Urban Placemaking and the Role of Design Review’ today. The Canadian speaker presented many pictures of the beautiful Vancouver waterfront developments, proudly stating the city’s ranking as one of the most livable cities in the world. The truth is, as the speaker also acknowledged, a city like Vancouver needs at […]
tagged: architecture, canada, hk, school
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HKGBC Conference
Took an excursion to the full-day annual HKGBC Conference today. It was rather boring most of the time, but I felt quite refreshing to be outside of my studio leaving my papers/books and computer behind. Perhaps I’ve spent way too much time at home recently. I really should go out more often.
tagged: architecture, event, green, school, travel
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Tsing Yi
It’s Chinese National Holiday today. Went back to Tsing Yi to play bball with my highschool friends. This is one of the rare occasions that I went back during the day rather than night to play badminton. With much time to spare after the game, I forgot about my fatigued body and took a long […]
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Learned from the book that Construction and Demolition (C&D) Waste is the major contribution to landfills and reclamation sites in HK. This waste stream can be vastly minimized through better planning, design, construction, and maintenance of architectures. Unfortunately, I find this particular book to be bloated with common sense and lacking much of the details, […]
tagged: architecture, books, design, dislike, school
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Spending much of my time these days reading books. Sometimes I feel guilty for leisurely spending my time while most of my peers are working hard to make a living. It seems almost as though I’m slowly building up a debt on finishing up my fair portion of meaningful work on Earth. I could have […]
tagged: architecture, books, green, like, school
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Read a book on planting green roofs and living walls. It’s just part of the preliminary readings for my proposed independent study. There’s a part of me that is reserved just for plants – succulents, bonsai, and even freshwater species… I remember how much I used to envy the school gardeners for spending their days […]
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WZQ Design Competition
Rushed myself into completing a submission for a design competition before my trip to Australia. I don’t hold too much expectation as this is my first ever entry into a competition of this type, and honestly, I don’t even know if the panel had received my submission as I have yet to receive any feedback […]
tagged: architecture, archive, design, project, school
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Design Competition & Family Trip
For the past few days, I’ve been rushing my way into completing a proposal for a design competition held by Wu Zhi Qiao Charitable Foundation. My submission tonight marks my first ever entry into an architectural design competition! Don’t hold much expectation, the research and design process was rewarding enough, and participation was the key […]
tagged: architecture, australia, competition, design, family, holiday, project, thankful, travel
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<< How Buildings Learn >>
Learned from the book that many architectures were demolished prematurely due to fluctuating market value, over-specification and lack of flexibility in design. Architectures can no way be designed perfectly, they should be designed rather for longevity by allowing inhabitants to easily adjust, adapt, re-adjust, re-adapt, and slowly evolve as a living museum. If longevity is […]
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Cradle to Cradle
Love books that inspire me to think and re-think… Not sure of the exact reason(s), but I became a bit of an environmentalist in recent years. Ever since I watched “The Story of Stuff“, I have this little guilty feeling whenever I buy or throw away stuff. Slowly, I also became a bit of an […]
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