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The state-support cultural development in Hong Kong can be understood to begin from the post-war period in the late 20th century. With an influx of immigrants from mainland China since the 1950s, the population of Hong Kong has reached two million, for which increasing effort was placed on social provision by the colonial government, mainly…
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Cultural architecture is usually discussed in terms of its formal aesthetic or symbolic meaning, and the actual experienced space receive less attention than the exterior imagery. Urban experience is often studied in social science, although only with marginal connection to the design and programming of architectural space. Therefore, a renewed perspective to look at the…
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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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