Découverte de la série « Please Mind the Gap » par Weilun Chong basé à Singapour. Un travail photographique où l’objectif est de prendre sur le vif les voyageurs montant et descendant dans les rames du métro de Singapour et de Hong-Kong. Un rendu éclectique à découvrir dans la suite de l’article.
Voici la 3ème édition des Red Bull Illume Photo, un concours qui invite les photographes à soumettre des images autour de l’action et des sports d’aventure. Les 250 finalistes ont été sélectionnés et les gagnants seront dévoilés fin août à Hong-Kong. Voici une sélection des nominés dans la suite de l’article.
Saman Kesh nous prouve une nouvelle fois son talent indéniable pour la mise en scène et la réalisation avec ce court-métrage « The Controller ». Dans cette création parfaitement maîtrisée produite par Marq Films, une fille prisonnière aux pouvoirs impressionnants prend le contrôle de son petit-ami pour venir la secourir.
Le photographe finlandais Miemo Penttinen parcourt Hong-Kong et prend en photo les façades colorées de la ville. Il s’en dégage des motifs abstraits et une multiplicité d’immeubles à la taille vertigineuse où se superposent des milliers d’appartements. Une très belle série de photos à découvrir en images.
News: the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority (WKCDA) has appointed Asian curator Doryun Chong as chief curator of Hong Kong’s forthcoming M+ museum of visual culture.
Mr Doryun Chong, a respected and experienced curator will join the M+ museum team in September, which already includes art and design curator Aric Chen, and will assist executive director Dr Lars Nittve on the museum’s future.
“We have been searching for a right chief curator for years,” said Nittve. “With his extensive knowledge and understanding of the contemporary art scene, not the least in Asia, Doryun is an extraordinary addition to our growing team,” he added.
Since 2009, Chong has been the associate curator of painting and sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. Prior to MoMA, he has held curatorial positions at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. He was the coordinator for the Korean Pavilion exhibition at the 2001 Venice Biennale as well as a co-curator of the 2003 exhibition Time After Time: Asia and Our Moment at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.
‘I am extremely excited about M+’s vision of creating a unique twentieth and twenty-first century multidisciplinary institution of visual culture,” said Chong.
“I look forward to working with the already accomplished, diverse team of curators at M+ to build a truly global museum that is also locally rooted and contribute to making Hong Kong a great cultural hub,” he added.
Last month, Swiss architecture studio Herzog & de Meuron was selected to design the M+ museum, which is scheduled for completion in 2017.
It will be one of the first buildings to open in the West Kowloon Cultural District, which is being masterplanned by London office Foster + Partners and is set to contain a total of 17 cultural venues around a 14-hectare city park located in Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour.
In 2012, Dezeen spoke to M+ curator of art and design Aric Chen who told us that the M+ museum will take an unprecedented stance in “placing Asia at the centre” of design history, rather than on the periphery as western curators have done.
Listen to our full interview with Aric Chen »
Read more coverage of the West Kowloon Cultural District »
Photograph of Doryun Chong is by Martin Seck.
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Hong Kong-based architecture photographer Edmon Leong has sent us a set of exclusive photos of Zaha Hadid’s nearly-completed Innovation Tower at Hong Kong Polytechnic University (+ slideshow).
The 76 metre-high building, located on the Hong Kong Polytechnic University campus close to Hung Hom station in Kowloon, is being built to house the institution’s design school.
Providing 12,00 square metres of space for 1,500 students, the project is part of a strategy to turn Hong Kong into a leading design hub in Asia.
The building is conceived as a variant of the tower-and-podium typology, with the concrete podium and the louvred tower visually united by flowing forms.
Zaha Hadid Architects were appointed to design the building in 2008. “The Innovation Tower design dissolves the classic typology of the tower and the podium into a seamless piece,” Hadid said at the time. “The design unashamedly aims to stimulate a vision of possibilities for the future whilst reflecting the history of the institution.”
Hadid first came to international prominence in 1983 for a project designed for Hong Kong – a hilltop spa and leisure club called The Peak that was never built.
“I am delighted to be working in Hong Kong again,” Hadid said when the Hong Kong Polytechnic University project was announced. “The city has such diversity in its landscapes and history; this is reflected in an urbanism of layering and porosity. Our own explorations and research into an architecture of seamless fluidity follows this paradigm so evident in Hong Kong.”
She added: “One of our seminal projects was designed for the city exactly 25 years ago, and the Innovation Tower design is a realization of this continued research.”
All images are copyright Edmon Leong and used with permission.
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Focus sur les équipes du studio Adeas qui ont imaginé le design de ce magnifique hôtel appelé Indigo Hong Kong Island, doté d’une piscine sur le toit du bâtiment. Situé dans le quartier de « Wan Chai », ce bâtiment 5 étoiles qui a ouvert en mai a déjà reçu un Asia Pacific Hotel Awards 2013. Plus d’images dans la suite.
News: Swiss architecture studio Herzog & de Meuron has been selected to design a visual culture museum in Hong Kong’s new West Kowloon Cultural District.
Selected ahead of a shortlist of architects that included SANAA, Renzo Piano, Toyo Ito, Snøhetta and Shigeru Ban, Herzog & de Meuron will work alongside UK firm TFP Farrells to deliver the M+ museum on Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour, giving the city a dedicated centre for twentieth and twenty-first century art, design, architecture and film.
M+ is scheduled to complete in 2017 and will be one of the first buildings to open in the West Kowloon Cultural District, which is being masterplanned by London office Foster + Partners and is set to contain a total of 17 cultural venues around a 14-hectare city park.
Design critic Aric Chen was appointed curator of design and architecture for M+ last summer. He told Dezeen that the museum will help to “place Asia at the centre” of design history, rather than on the periphery as western curators have done.
Other venues underway in the West Kowloon Cultural District include a Chinese opera designed by Vancouver-based architect Bing Thom and Hong Kong-based architect Ronald Lu. See all our coverage of the West Kowloon Cultural District.
Herzog & de Meuron was also recently selected to design the new National Library of Israel, after the initial competition winner was dismissed over a copyright dispute. Other new projects by the studio include a 57-storey tower for Miami and the completed Messe Basel exhibition centre. See more architecture by Herzog & de Meuron.
Here’s a short statement from Herzog & de Meuron:
Herzog & de Meuron win competition to design M+
The West Kowloon Cultural District Authority has appointed Herzog & de Meuron to design the new building for M+. Based on the recommendation of an international selection jury, Herzog & de Meuron were selected ahead of five other short-listed architecture firms. M+ is the new museum for visual culture in Hong Kong, focusing on 20th and 21st century art, design, architecture and moving image. The building will be situated on the waterfront of Victoria Harbour at the edge of a planned 14-hectare park. It will be one of the first projects to be completed in the West Kowloon Cultural District, and a key venue in creating interdisciplinary exchange between the visual arts and the performing arts in Asia.
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Habitant à Hong-Kong depuis près d’une décennie, Javin Lau a voulu rendre un hommage avec cette vidéo appelée « Hong Kong is Home ». Sur la musique Waking Up de M83, cette vidéo en time-lapse s’inspire du film Oblivion, lui rappelant à quel point nous sommes si petit par rapport à ce qui nous entoure.
La série de l’artiste français Romain Jacquet-Lagreze « Horizon vertical » est un voyage photographique entre les bâtiments d’une ville sans cesse croissante. Utilisant la nature première de Hong Kong et ses horizons verticaux, le résultat qui a été réuni dans un livre, est à découvrir dans la suite de l’article.
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