1881 Heritage: The Good Old Days Director’s name: Chu Kai Ying (uid: 3036239774) 1.Description of The Theme This video is about a girl walks through the historical building, 1881 Heritage. It was the former marine police headquarters founded in 1881 and completed in 1884, which is an outstanding landmark in Tsim Sha Tsui. This building carries several memories for the former marine police and the history are recorded in the heritage hall. Different exhibition for paintings and arts would be held in it, attracting people and audience to visit. The redeveloped 1881 Heritage is comprised of a piazza, shops and

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Chu Kai Ying Yannis uid: 3036239774 This article mainly discusses the disappearance of Hong Kong architecture and history. Architecture not only can showcase the aesthetic of one place, but also represent people’s identity in an intangible way. The demolition of Hong Kong unique buildings will fade out people’s memories towards a city or even a nation, nevertheless, the preservation may not represent the truth or memory of a city. As preservation is selective and tends to exclude the dirt and pain, the fantasy may be just an illusion, some of the real history may also be cancelled by the preservation.

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People are superstitious in the past, they thought they need to choose a right place for their ancestors as their spirits are still preserved on earth. People also spend money on things that can bless them and their ancestors.

uid: 3036239774 Name: Chu Kai Ying It demonstrated that a woman who walks alone on the street with no one as her company. She is lonely, and there is no other individuals are willing to lend a helping hand to her. Her loneliness has inspired me, and her appearance shows that she may experienced something bad in her life. It makes me feel pathetic. Thus, I choose this photo for the exercise as it perfectly suits the topic.

Chu Kai Ying Yannis, 3036239774.     Matthew Chak Sum, SEE, 3036050257 Video link: https://youtu.be/5xuNb0d7Zzk?si=Gmo6VH4fuZeO-SeQ Our Transcript: Matthew: Hello, welcome to our podcast. My name is Matthew See and together with my partner Yannis Chu, we will be discussing an architectural object that we think will no longer exist in ten years. In the next 10 minutes, we will be exploring the traditional tenement buildings of Hong Kong, which we locals usually refer to as tong lau. Yannis, what do you think is going to happen to tong laus in the future?   Yannis: We believe traditional tong laus in

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This article mainly focuses on the relationship between the spaces and the women in the city. Some of the noir films, such as The Forsaken Love, were made in 1968, it is similar with many classic fairy tale stories that a naïve Cinderella rescued by a young and rich prince. In this film, the producer and director use the industrial workplace to indicate the protagonist’s background, showing that she is a poor and hardworking woman. The spaces that the woman protagonist live is crowded, and it needs to use its living room spaces for sewing, hence, the social status of

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