Soho, near the central district of Hong Kong Island, is a dynamic urban area full of restaurants, shops and nightlife. The traditional hill-side neighborhood stretches more or less from the lower Queens Road Central until Robinson Road at the top, having the busy Hollywood Road in the mid level. In the early nineties the Central-Mid-Levels [...]
Hip hop artist Dregs One discusses the gentrification process in his neighborhood in San Francisco:
Helsinki has preserved many of its former industrial structures along the city´s waterfront. A nice concentration of these historic buildings can be found at the peninsula Katajanokka. Despite the inhospitable climate, the author went into town and photographed some examples. Check out the building locations at Google Maps Gräsviksgatan building Katajanokka school building Kino K13 [...]
OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, OCAT in short, is based in an old industrial area in the Nanshan district in Shenzhen. Warehouses and factory buildings have been preserved to house creative companies, restaurants, galleries, bars and exhibition spaces, as well as a lecture room. Among others, the famous Chinese architecture firm Urbanus has an office here. [...]
Merten Nefs will represent Association Delta Metropolis at the international conference ‘Next Generation Infrastructure Systems For Eco-Cities’, which takes place in Shenzhen from November 11 to 13, 2010. The conference is organized by Next Generation Infrastructures and discusses how innovative infrastructure systems may contribute to a new generation of sustainable cities. At the conference, Association [...]
