Already named in TIME magazine’s list of 100 greatest places for 2018, Tai Kwun has received a million visitors.
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Fri 19 Oct 2018
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Tai Kwun has received a million visitors
Fri 06 Sep 2013
Opinion
Memories of the QE2 Heritage Trail
Model of the Mauretania outside the Caronia Restaurant, part of the QE2 Heritage Trail. The lighting within the case changed during the course of the day and fibre optics had been painstakingly installed inside the model itself so that, when guests arrived or left the restaurant in the evening, the model ship glowed as if there was a party in full swing.
Wed 07 Mar 2012
Opinion
Return to the Hong Kong Wetland Park
And so, after nearly six years I thought it time (with some trepidation) to return to the Hong Kong Wetland Park (HKWP) to see how it is faring. It represents, after all, five years of my life as Director of Research with the designers MET Studio.
Fri 28 Oct 2011
Company News
Civic Education Resource Centre, Hong Kong
Nice to see Frame Magazine feature the Civic Education Resource Centre which I worked on with Marc & Chantal Design. CommArts described it as a welcoming environment to teach youth cultural- and self-awareness, personal responsibility and citizenship. It was a challenge to define the storyline and interpret the content into a way which a notoriously skeptical audience (teenagers) would find engaging but I think the end result is sufficiently intriguing. The Gallery divided into five segments titled, My Room, My Home, My Neighbourhood, My City and My Country.
Tue 28 Jun 2011
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ArtScience Museum, Singapore
One of the latest additions to the Marina Bay skyline and Singapore’s cultural landscape is the ArtScience Museum. Its self-proclaimed iconic architecture is intended to house “blockbuster” temporary exhibitions on … well anything that can be linked to art or science.
Designed by Moshe Safdie, the building form is intended to represent a lotus flower or, in the words of Las Vegas Sands Chairman Sheldon Adelson, the welcoming hand of Singapore. It promises 21 galleries with a total area of 6,000 square metres. The permanent galleries in the upper levels of the building set the museum’s conceptual stall out in an exhibition called ‘ArtScience: a journey through creativity’. Divided into Curiosity, Inspiration and Expression, they provide a cursory impression of the ways in which art and science are linked.
Quite reasonably, they aim to provide a taster of the subject intended to whet the appetite. But given that these sections anchor the raison d’etreof the entire enterprise they feel curiously empty calories, particularly as the ArtMuseum itself is constantly referred to as genius on the par with the likes of Leonardo da Vinci.
I don’t know the answer to “Where do Art and Science meet?” but I am pretty sure that getting the masking right on a simple slide projection to include the whole question would be a good start.
The ArtScience Museum was running three exhibitions when we visited – ‘Dali: mind of a genius’, ‘Shipwrecked: Tang Treasures and Monsoon Winds’ and ‘Van Gogh Alive – the Exhibition’ – which I will be reviewing in subsequent posts. Suffice to say the spaces within the building which work best as gallery spaces are in fact below ground – in other words freed from the constraints of the “iconic” architectural form.
Sat 15 Aug 2009
Company News
Giant Panda Adventure, Ocean Park
Soon after it opening, we got along to the Giant Panda Adventure. First a disclosure – I worked on the interpretive planning throughout the public areas of the attraction with Hypsos Leisure Asia. So, I was keen to see the finished result.