Theme: According to the Building (Planning) Regulations (2020), a basement refers to “any storey of a building below the ground storey”. Therefore, a basement can basically exist in any type of building. Yuo and Lizieri (2013) suggested that the presence of basements in malls often denotes a high-rise building, which therefore accounts for the higher degree of departmentalization in malls with basements. This explains the significance of a basement in shopping malls. As a result, I would like to focus on basements in shopping malls in this research. In the past two years, the COVID-19 pandemic has had a

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Link: https://youtu.be/STxc8lsaU58 Title: Locked City —– How’re people’s lives during a community lockdown? Site: Gawa Impression Residential Area, Beijing To fight against the pandemic, China has been implementing strict covid-zero policies. Recently, there was one positive case in our residential area, and as a result, our community was forced to be locked for two weeks or more, depending on the situation. During this lockdown, the community became a vital or the only place for residents to conduct different activities, which reflected a new lifestyle under the lockdown policy. “What is community? Why community?” —– Initial Analysis Based on different meanings of

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Connection City Director: Siew Ming Ho Iwan Lobby is a space used to connect two places. Examples of lobby include hotel lobby, train lobby in MTR and lift lobby. Lift lobby is the most common one among the three and having the least distance to most of Hong Kong people. It performs different functions namely embellishment, community common space and passageway from ground to upper floors. In housing estates in Hong Kong, it is very common to have security guards in lobby to monitor the building. These security guards work long hours every day to safeguard residents there. Greetings and

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  Title: Control city — Malls in the post-epidemic era City: Nanjing, Xinjiekou Site: Mall Directed by: Joran Zhang A study of the impact of the epidemic and anti-epidemic measures on people’s consumption behaviour and how shopping malls are defined in the city by photographing the flow of people in malls before and after urban controls.   The significance of the mall’s presence in the city As an urban complex, Deji Plaza brings vitality to the city and at the same time promotes the reuse of urban stock space. With a total gross floor area of approximately 250,000 square metres

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Settings and founding: The campus of HKU has a history of over a hundred years, sitting on a rural hill that was once deforested to expand the campus. But interestingly, the trees and trunks cut by us humans have started to take over, stretching through the concrete facades, swallowing the brutalist architecture slowly. Whenever I walk from the Knowles Building to its hidden garden near the car park, it always feels like a total transformation of space; from a modernistic, clean, perfectionist laboratory to a complex-made, fresh, and liberated jungle. The space immediately changes from a suffocating, stressing academic environment

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