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Andy Au on philosophy and architecture
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Sevva Hong Kong from Tsao & McKown
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Lutron’s innovations for the hotel industry
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Ambiance from Ricky Wong Design
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The work of Ball + Nogues
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Hong Kong’s ArtWalk
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Ecowall, Tel Aviv designed by Geotectura
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The season’s launches, seminars, conferences and happenings in Hong Kong and beyond
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*Apex House, Hong Kong by Woods Bagot
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*A clubhouse in Beijing by Alan Chan
*A travelling Rocawear shop by d-ash design
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hinge’s spring almanac of worthy projects worldwide
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*Rockwell/Gensler’s JetBlue Terminal at New York’s John F Kennedy airport
*Raymond Fung’s Flower Box house, Hong Kong
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The Zenith Music Hall, Strasbourg by Fuksas
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BAU, Beijing

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SPRING COLLECTION

It is possible to make connections between things which are apparently unrelated. In design, this can sometimes be easier than expected, as so many subjects or themes run through all types of design by virtue of the nature of the process: materiality, for example; constructive logic; aesthetics; the relationship between budget and quality; even the thinking process. Yet design’s end results are consistently diversified, disparate, often seemingly unrelated in any definable way. One could describe a kind of ‘Six Degrees of Separation’ quality to the connections that can be made between different designs. Of course, that game could be played in a conventional sense: The architect of building A once studied under master B, who happened to have worked on the construction drawings for building C, that occupied the site D... You get the idea. Conversely, one could randomly toss a series of buildings or interior design projects together with no deliberate order, anhave in common – or where, instead, they diverge...