Tag: hong kong

  • The Police Married Quarters 元創方, Hong Kong

    The Police Married Quarters 元創方, Hong Kong

    … almost forgot about this post which we wrote earlier in the year. We visited The former Hollywood Road Police Married Quarters, now renamed PMQ 元創方 in Sheung Wan, Hong Kong earlier this year. The buildings and grounds have been turned into a landmark for the creative industries. It is truly a great place to wander…

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  • The Eslite Spectrum 誠品生活, Hong Kong

    The Eslite Spectrum 誠品生活, Hong Kong

    We were visiting Hong Kong during the Christmas period. One store that we went to multiple times on this trip is The Eslite Spectrum store in Star House 星光行, Tsim Sha Tsui. Its location just happened to be near the places that we were visiting and it is just a nice place to have a…

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  • Objection! Protest by Design at Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein

    Objection! Protest by Design at Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein

    IT and I visited the Vitra Design Museum at Weil am Rhein in April 2016. It is a beautiful, well-designed (duh), starchitect-built campus – more about this place in future posts. From 26.02 – 29.05.2016, in a free-standing gallery next to the museum,  the exhibition titled “Objection! Protest by Design” was held. The exhibition presented a…

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  • Our trips 2015, part 2

    Our trips 2015, part 2

    Dear Readers, Happy New Year ! Continuing with our first post of 2016, this post takes a look back at the places we visited in the first half of last year. In 2015, there were 94 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 650 posts. The post that had the highest number of views…

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  • Support True Democracy in Hong Kong

    This is dedicated to the protest for true democracy in Hong Kong which is now approaching its peak – October 1. 聲援香港爭取民主普選 !  

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  • Constant Change by Hong Kong at the Triennale

    Constant Change by Hong Kong at the Triennale

    Hong Kong participated in the Salone d’Onore at La Triennale di Milano. The exhibition is called Constant Change – a theme that is very Hong Kong-esque given its historical and demographics background. I was genuinely and pleasantly surprised by this exhibition. The poster at the entrance featured the calligraphy of the Emperor of Kowloon front…

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