Billboard Landscape
Hong Kong is a city of signage. Buildings, especially those in older neighbourhoods, feature advertisements and billboards of varying design and composition overhanging onto the street, creating a dynamic layering of elements which contribute towards a richly diverse landscape. Designed as a standalone object with little consideration of their surrounding other than to proclaim its messages to the street, these billboards are a physical representation of the economic undercurrents at play on the urban fabric of the city.
Billboard Landscape
Hong Kong is a city of signage. Buildings, especially those in older neighbourhoods, feature advertisements and billboards of varying design and composition overhanging onto the street, creating a dynamic layering of elements which contribute towards a richly diverse landscape. Designed as a standalone object with little consideration of their surrounding other than to proclaim its messages to the street, these billboards are a physical representation of the economic undercurrents at play on the urban fabric of the city.
jokearchitects.com
JOKE recently launched a new web address as part of its ongoing evolution into a formal medium of design and expression. The new address identifies the role of JOKE within the continuing development of an analytical voice for architectural articulation
jokearchitects.com
JOKE recently launched a new web address as part of its ongoing evolution into a formal medium of design and expression. The new address identifies the role of JOKE within the continuing development of an analytical voice for architectural articulation
Social [PLAY]Ground
Buildings form the building block of a city, though it is the spaces in between that lie the life of the city. Within the planned urban environment, there are always leftover spaces that fall into the field of indeterminacy, an element of freedom within these spaces that let the imaginations run wild and allow opportunities for public interpretation. Often it is these spaces that encourages the production of a richer urban fabric which nurtures life, foster creativity and raises locality. These spaces, outside the grand plans of architects and urban planners, create the essential qualities of a livable city.
Social [PLAY]Ground
Buildings form the building block of a city, though it is the spaces in between that lie the life of the city. Within the planned urban environment, there are always leftover spaces that fall into the field of indeterminacy, an element of freedom within these spaces that let the imaginations run wild and allow opportunities for public interpretation. Often it is these spaces that encourages the production of a richer urban fabric which nurtures life, foster creativity and raises locality. These spaces, outside the grand plans of architects and urban planners, create the essential qualities of a livable city.
Program(me)
Architecture exists beyond the building. In a world dominated by imagery and instant consumption, architecture can no longer be about mere programme and function. We experience architecture through medium such as television and movies, they exist in the printed form of newspapers and magazines, and they feature in blogospheres and photologs accessible through any computer or cell phone. The ease and convenience with which anyone can now share things of interest has exponentially expanded the rate at which information is transferred. Architecture is thus transformed into a a spectacle; it is a commodity to be consumed.
Program(me)
Architecture exists beyond the building. In a world dominated by imagery and instant consumption, architecture can no longer be about mere programme and function. We experience architecture through medium such as television and movies, they exist in the printed form of newspapers and magazines, and they feature in blogospheres and photologs accessible through any computer or cell phone. The ease and convenience with which anyone can now share things of interest has exponentially expanded the rate at which information is transferred. Architecture is thus transformed into a a spectacle; it is a commodity to be consumed.
