Collateral event of 16th International Architecture Exhibition—La Biennale di Venezia—Hong Kong Exhibition (Hong Kong Exhibition) ‘Vertical Fabric: density in landscape’ held its official opening on 25 May 2018 in Venice, Italy. The opening ceremony was attended by government officials, professionals, media and architects from the cross-strait regions and other parts of the world.
Jointly organised by The Hong Kong Institute of Architects Biennale Foundation (HKIABF) and the Hong Kong Arts Development Council (HKADC), with The Hong Kong Institute of Architects (HKIA) as the Partner and Create Hong Kong (CreateHK) of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) as the Lead Sponsor, the Hong Kong Exhibition ‘Vertical Fabric: density in landscape’ is staged from 26 May to 25 November, 2018 in Venice, Italy. The Hong Kong Exhibition is curated by Professor Weijen Wang as the Chief Curator, together with Co-curator Thomas Chung, Co-curator Thomas Tsang, and Managing Curator Grace Cheng.
In alignment with ‘Freespace’, the theme of the 16th International Architecture Exhibition—La Biennale di Venezia, the Hong Kong exhibition adopted the theme of ‘Vertical Fabric: density in landscape’ to illustrate Hong Kong’s unique vertical architecture and urbanism with innovation visions, in order to demonstrate the capabilities of Hong Kong as a vertical city, incubating visions for freespace facing global challenges in technology, environment society and culture.
It is the first time for the Hong Kong Exhibition to display 111 tower models as exhibits. These tower models are based on three different structural bases each with fixed infrastructures of 360 millimetres square plan extrusion and 2m in height as typical Hong Kong tower architecture. They are designed by 94 exhibitors from Hong Kong, the Mainland, Taiwan and overseas, including Thailand, Brazil, the Netherlands, Japan, USA, Spain and Switzerland, etc., which are set to re-define the typological, spatial and facade potential while maintaining the constrains of the tower’s envelope as a collective urban form. — Construction+ Online
