“Concluding his six-month term as the inaugural M+/Design Trust Research Fellow, Ling Fan will present ‘Hong Kong as an Urban Archetype for China’s Marketisation’, an examination of this phenomenon focused on two 1990s case studies in Beijing: Oriental Plaza and Sun Dong An Plaza (now Beijing apm). Both projects were funded through investments by Hong Kong-based developers (Cheung Kong Property and Sun Hung Kai Properties, respectively) and relied on the commercial design expertise of Hong Kong architects (P&T Group, formerly Palmer and Turner, and Wong Tung & Partners). In exploring the flow of capital and architectural strategies from Hong Kong to Beijing, Fan will propose the beginnings of a theoretical framework for understanding Hong Kong’s instrumental role in shaping the Chinese city in the post-reform era”. Taking place 24 November 2015. More details here.
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