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Architectural Design

Bangladesh army to end search for disaster bodies

13 May 2013

Bangladesh’s army announced on Monday that it was wrapping up its search for bodies following last month’s collapse of a garment factory complex, saying that it now believed a total of 1,127...

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Intelligent designs: greener thinking

10 May 2013

Bennetts Associates is a London-based architecture practice known for its highly sustainable approach to construction and a portfolio that includes theatres, offices, universities, hotels and...

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Collapsed Bangladesh building not 'designed' for factory-use, says architect

5 May 2013

Masood Reza, a leading Bangladesh architect and a professor at a state-run university, said he felt “pain and anguish” when he saw footage of the garment workers trapped under the pancaked floors...

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World's iconic cities distilled on the mainland

24 Mar 2013

Consume the Western media for any period of time and sooner or later you'll come upon a Funny China Story - reports on the consequences of the mainland's rapid and chaotic economic expansion that...

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Maggie's Centres offer beauty and dignity to terminally ill

4 Mar 2013

When designer Maggie Keswick Jencks found out that her cancer had spread to her bones, liver and bone marrow, she was sitting in a harshly lit room with her husband, landscape architect and writer...

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'Giant cigarettes' in Shaanxi county draw ridicule from fuming netizens

29 Nov 2012

Zhouzhi county, Xian, in central China’s Shaanxi province, is more famous for its kiwi fruit exports than it is for good architecture, let alone landscaping.

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Opinion

Alex Lo

Rankings belie the real purpose of universities: to educate

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Howard Winn

Way to go

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It's not big, but it is clever

Savvy and surprisingly stylish space-saving ideas turned a 440 sq ft apartment into a haven of luxury.

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Flexibility fires furniture firm's success

Cindy Kan points to three key factors - functionality, flexibility and quality of craftsmanship - to explain how Zense's made-to-order furniture has been able to attract so much interest in Hong...

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Designs on future of business

Design products, systems and thinking are changing the business world, providing vast opportunities for those involved in the field.

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A kind of MADness

Effortlessly stylish in a simple black shirt and jeans, Ma Yansong sits cradling a cup of tea with a pack of flu medicine nearby.

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'Inno-design' course for leaders

As a concrete step to improve design management and innovation, Hong Kong Design Centre is introducing a brand-new executive education course.

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Bringing history into focus

The Leisure and Cultural Services Department and the Hong Kong Design Centre (HKDC) are co-organising a series of 'The Terracotta Warrior Inspired Design' public art programmes to promote the...

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