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Hong Kong: Open door to creativity, says top architect

by Una So, The Standard

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

When it comes to design, not many people in Hong Kong understand the difference between the good, the bad and the ugly, an internationally famed and award- winning architect said . Rocco Yim, the Hong Kong architect behind Tamar’s The Door creation, said because of this, there is little public pressure on the government to elevate its game in public buildings design through open competition, rather than relying on the problematic tendering process.

“Public architecture is the expression of a city’s spirit, but administration people are deciding the face of Hong Kong,” he said.

Hong Kong tends to be too conservative for creativity, Yim said, noting the problem is that architecture has been dominated by developers who are mostly conservative, preferring to stick with “formula” glories dating back decades.

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