[Video Essay] Metamorphic City
Story Board: Description: Diocesan Boys’ School’s dormitories are on its main campus- a fairly uncommon sight in a city as pressed for space as Hong Kong is. There are two different dormitories, one of them for the teaching staff and another one for students. “It is an interesting mix of historic colonial buildings right next to these very modern buildings: it gels together,” Norman Chan, a famous Hong Kong architect once said. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, both are mostly empty as their occupants have returned home. Those remaining are the ones taking DSE or non-local students – the dormitory