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70 ‘extraordinary’ Hong Kong buildings and urban spaces designed by local architects feature in new book Untold Stories
It has been a long time coming. "I had the idea in 1977 or '78 when I came back from the States," he says. "I was so surprised not to see any books mentioning Hong Kong architects. But I was just ...
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Constructing climate: The Hong Kong Observatory and meteorological networks within the British imperial sphere, 1842 – 1912
This research examines the historical study of climate through the architecture that enabled it, namely, the design and construction of the Hong Kong Observatory, initiated in 1879 at the behest of ...