January 28, 2009 | Broadcast News
One Hong Kong Architect’s Living-Room
The New York Times features Hong Kong architect Gary Chang’s 344-square-foot, 24-room Hong Kong apartment. In one room — the “maximum kitchen,†he calls it — and the “video game room†he was sitting in minutes before are just 2 of at least 24 different layouts that Mr. Chang, an architect, can impose on his 344-square-foot apartment, which he renovated last year. What appears to be an open-plan studio actually contains many rooms, because of sliding wall units, fold-down tables and chairs, and the habitual kinesis of a resident in a small space. As Mr. Chang put it, “I glide around.â€
[Image Courtesy Marcel Lam for The New York Times]
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