Melody YIU
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From the Louvre to St. Petersburg’s Hermitage to the Forbidden City, some of the most significant museums in the world were palaces of a previous dynasty. For its representation of grandeur or its political or cultural significance, today we would still use the “palace” as an adjective to describe impressive cultural buildings. Through the evolution…
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The “Parthenon of Books” is a full-size replica of the Athenian temple built with thousands of forbidden books to symbolise free speech, created by conceptual artist Marta Minujin for the documenta 14, in Kassel, Germany [1]. Visitors not only view the installation but also experience it as a public space. The artwork’s dual capacity in…
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The K11 is a real estate brand promoting a vision that says “Lifestyle through Art”, created by Hong Kong developer New World Ltd[1]. Their latest flagship project, K11 Musea, is a hybrid of mall + museum, filled with contemporary artwork and staffed with curators for the art collection and public programme. It was their intention…
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The concept of public space has a common understanding in daily life, as the space where everyone could enjoy. We can easily identify open spaces like the park or the street as public, as well as the interior of civic or cultural buildings such as the library or the museum. Furthermore, commercial establishments such as…
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Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle | Weiss/Manfredi Introduction: Grey to Green Infrastructure The Seattle Olympic Sculpture Park is a project conceived by the Seattle Art Museum in the late 1990s, as they seek for expansion venue to house the increasing sculpture collection. The 3.4ha project sits on the former Union Oil Company of California (Unocal) fuel storage…
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Gifu Media Cosmo, Japan | Toyo Ito The library has evolved far beyond the static storage of books, just as knowledge dissimilation has progressed from a privileged activity to a public act with multiple dimensions. Comparing to other cultural facilities, the library is regarded as a more important social infrastructure as it is free and…
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Jun – Sept 2019 | Coordinator for research and conference activities, including three components: Organizer: Zuni Icosahedron
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Dec 2018 | 1 km multilevel streetscape design at the future Shenzhen Bay CBD | Urban Design Lead in collaboration with: Wilkinson Eyre (architecture) & Morphis (landscape design) *World Architecture Festival 2019 Future Project of the Year
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2017/18 | Yr 2+3 Vertical Studio at University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China The Foundation Studio is complimented with short lectures to introduce basic concepts in design From Studio Project Brief: “Chinese cities are growing faster, denser, and ever more connected. However, as we experience in physical form these are mostly mega-block private property developments –…
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Spring 2017 | Yr 3 Design Studio at Faculty of Environmental Art, China Academy of Art This option studio looks at the role of cultural buildings and its role as the Urban Living Room. The program of a cultural building at the site adjacent to West Lake aims to rediscover the sensitivity in spatial quality…
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