Curriculum VitaeName:Kit Hing Man Address: Block F 1-3 Arena Green, Jalan 1/155A, Bukit Jalil, 5700 Kuala LumpurMobile: +60 17 615 7003 Email: kithman67@gmail.com

I am an experienced print graphic designer. I have an exceptional flair for conceptualising client requirements and turningit into aesthetically pleasing designs and concepts, while at the same time finding innovative and powerful ways of getting the message across in a cross-cultural environments. I am experienced in working in Europe and Asia and possess the multi-lingual and cultural understanding to work effectively with big and small firms within a variety of industries. For the past few years I have developed an interest in business development, PR, marketing and sales and branding. Expected Salary: RM6,000.

Professional Experience:

Voluntary Work January 2016 April 2016 (3 months voluntary work in Bangkok) Camillian Home for children with disabilities, Bangkok Looking after children with mental disabilities: celebral palsy, autism, vision impaired, down's syndrome and HIV.Responsibilities: Helping the full-time carers with breakfast, lunch and dinner with children who are not able to feed themselves, wheeling them around to different classes, helping them using their hand in therapy, and entertaining and give them as much love as possible as most are orphans. Updating the design of their website and clean up the information and incorporate their brochure into chinese and helping them with marketing, but mostly focus oning the children.

Brand Manager March 2015 May 2015 (2 months due to unforseeable family situation in Hong Kong) Mell Basics, Kuala Lumpur A designer uniform company which custom designs corporate, hospitality and government bodies uniforms.Responsibilities: Business development, sales, marketing, design and briefing meetings, providing quotations for design and production, liaise with the clients and my team, monitoring the progress to make sure our clients are satisfied with our products. Cold-calling for new clients, maintained corresponding withexisting clients, contacting clients, which has been dormant.Achievements: Has taken a confused brand with 3 different departments and unified it into one brand Developing social media and brand awareness Building working relationship exisiting and new clients. Clients: Datai Langkawi, Mulpha Group, Fitness First, Malaysia National Sports, Expo Milano.

CEO January 2014 February 2015 Oil Kit Ltd., Hong Kong An organic health beauty concept for problematic skin. Focusing on Eczema, dry skin, age spots, hair growth and dental hygiene.Responsibilities: Developing products, sales, design, marketing and overall branding of this unique oil skincare treatment. Achievements: Creating a unique organic cosmetic line from scratch Understanding how retail marketing works through various social media Understanding organic health industry.

Art Director February 2006 July 2014ROF Media, Hong Kong PRC Magazine, Pacific Rim Construction Asia-Pacific bi-monthly construction magazine. Featuring architectural and interior building projects, construction products and interviews with influential industry people. I also run PRL Magazine as general manager for 1 year.Responsibilities: Managing the design department, advertising, art direction, directing photo-shoots, designing magazine layouts, liaise and conceptualising campaigns for clients, and branding of ROF Media.Achievements: Rebranded ROF Media, PRC Magazine and PRL Magazine to attract more international companies to feature and advertise in the magazine Business development and management of publishing multiple books, marketing compendiums, brochures and promotional materials Worked with majority of Hong Kongs building construction companies and government bodies Managing a men corporate leisure magazine (PRL) were I was sourcing contents, sales and distribution of the magazine as well as designing, photography and handling printing.

mailto:kithman67@gmail.com

Clients: Aedas, RICS, CBRE, Atkins, Arquitectonica, Buz Design, P&T Architect, CL3, AUTODESK, Ronald Lu Partnership, Zaha Hadid, Forster and Partnership, Benoy, Hong Kong MTR, Hip Hing Construction, Crown wineseller and Crown logistic, Leighton, Gammon, Sundat, New Zealand Connection, Quality Building Awards, Green Building Awards...etc.

Freelance Interior Design Consultant February 2012 October 2013 KSR Architects International, Shenzhen, China KSR is an influential international architect company in Shenzhen, which has won a number of architect and interior design awards.Responsibilities: Managing, decorating, styling and sourcing for the interior design clients of KSR.Client: Wisdom Plaza, Shenzhen

Freelance Graphic Designer September 2004 May 2005Coty Ltd., London freelance over the period of 8 months Coty is a well-known design company specialise in packaging for many of the high profile retail to cosmetic clients. I was designing and art working for various products.Clients: Adidas, Rimmel (Nail Polish & Lipsticks) and promotional booklets and labels for various perfumes.

Creative Art Director February 1999 July 2005 Vertigo Design Consultants Ltd., LondonResponsibilities: Involved in the day-to-day running of Vertigo. Includes: design, liaising and managing clients, printers, repro-houses and photographers regarding direction and costing for the clients. Daily chores involve managing staffs and freelancers, attending briefing, presenting concepts meetings.Achievements: Gain experience designing for a wide variety of industries from government, fashion, corporate to technology both large and small companies as well as charities Was able to design annual reports, conferences and exhibitions, promotional brochures & leaflets, campaigns (posters, leaflets, calling cards, packaging), logos and stationery, re-vamping corporate identities, information and public healthcare. Run a small graphic design firm and to manage a small team, including freelancers.Clients: Deutsche Bank, Kings Fund, Shepherds Bush Housing Association, Staying Put, Thames Reach Bondway, Camden & Islington Health Authority, Chivers Flowers, Harpers Estate Agent, Health First, Cityside Regeneration, Itochu, HASCAS, The Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea, Guys & St Thomas NHS Trust.

Graphic Designer July 1997 December 1998Aspade Design, London Responsibilities: Design and monitoring the printing, liaising with clients on a day to day bases, managing junior designers, attending meetings on briefing and throughout the projects, getting quotations for print, proof-reading and artwork for print.Clients: Lockheed Martin Intersputnik, Tesco Clothing, Portuguese Trade and Tourism Office, Wines of Portugal, Overseas Exhibition Services Ltd. Wigmore Fine Art, Cruisaid, St Johns Ambulance, Walk for Life.

Assistant Art Director January 1996 August 1996Dentsu Young & Rubicam, Hong Kong Responsibilities: Assisting two to three groups of copywriters and art directors. Designing of campaigns for local and regional Asia-Pacific clients. Majority of the work involved me co-ordinating teamwork within a multi-lingual environment. Clients: Colgate, Kanebo, Sony, Casio, Yakult.

Intern January 1994 April 1994Mad Dogs and Englishmen, New York assisting Art director to various campaigns. Clients: Amnesty International, Village Voice, Classic Turner Movies.

Education London College of Printing (London), Media and Production Design (Ba)Willesden College (London), Interior Design (Diploma)South Bank University (London), Quantity Surveying (Bsc), completed 3 yearsTurnbull High School (Glasgow), 8 OLevels, 5 Highers

Nationality British

Skills English, Chinese ( fluent in Cantonese and basic Mandarin) and able to read traditional ChineseMac: Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, QuarkXPress, basic DreamweaverPC: basic Excel, PowerPoint and Word.

Job Reference Man Kit Hing, KIT

To Whom It May Concern

Kit was employed from April 2006 to April 2012 in a full time capacity and remained with the company for two years thereafter in a freelance capacity.

When Kit was employed there were no positions vacant, but on the strength of his portfolio he was offered a job running PRL Magazine (Pacific Rim Leisure), a gentlemens lifestyle magazine. For the first 12 months ofhis employ Kit work on issues 5 through 11 before the publication was withdrawn due to the looming financialcrises.

At this time Kit took over graphic design duties of our more established construction publication, PRC Magazine (Pacific Rim Construction). He was soon promoted to the role of Art Director, a position he held foralmost 5 years. Kit was involved in the production of issues 30 through 72.

Kits subtle design aesthetic and ability to work with demanding corporate clients helped see the publication through a period of stability during uncertain economic times. The consistency of his work over this period helped cement the reputation of this publication as a reliable partner to industry during a decade of great change within the construction sector.

During his tenure Kit was also responsible for the concept development and art direction of a number of custom publishing projects, which are the mainstay of ROF Medias work. It is in the realm of custom publishing that his talents were able to flourish based on his experience in the United Kingdom and his enthusiasm for this type of assignment. In this role we saw some of Kits more dynamic work.

Kit contributed positively to the growth and stability of ROF Medias business during his full time tenure by providing consistent graphic design work for our magazine titles and with his dynamic concept development for our custom publishing business.

He is a creatively minded individual who seeks to constantly push himself forward in the application of his impressive graphic design talent and experience, whilst exploring new avenues for his creative expression.

We wish him well in all his future endeavors and look forward to hearing his future good news about the creative teams he is able to contribute to from this point.

I may be contacted for further information.

Mike Staley Publisher and Director Sales ROF Media

ROF MEDIA | High Quality Corporate Media and Contract Publishing

Project: Duetsche Bank Conferences: Save the Day Cards, Booklets, Letterheads, & other promotional materials.

Brief: Duetsche Bank wants the design to move away from men in suits and wanted a more flexible approach to their signage, promotional leaflets and booklets.

Solution: I took a graphic approach and work with their corporate colours. which all these design below also adapted to signage, banners and flags

Healthcare conference: I took a chance by using the idea of an X-ray as the save the date card, but rather using black I suggested to the client to make its 2nd corporate colour orange metallic. which gives a more younger less medical feel.

Technology conference: I took a chip and create this graphic image which I apply to all this promotional literature as well as singage and flags. On The save the date card and booklet covers. I spot varnish the silver to raise the height so it feel 3D.

Project: PRC Construction Magazine: covers

I joined ROF Media team on their 3rd year as a publication. It was just a local construction magazine which no architect or engineer want to look at. During my 8 years with the magazine, I have revamp its layout, logo, photography direction. uring this period, the team as able to acquire 90% of all the international architectural, engineering and developers in Hong Kong.

I suggest the magazine to be more streamline, less clutter, edit the picture and make sure the client give us the best of picture, and also make sure the flow of the pagination is smooth. I control what put into the magazine and make sure it looks pleasing to the clients.

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Inside:Atelier BrcknerQuality Building Awards 2010 - ION Orchard, Singapore - HKCEC Atrium Link Extension - Upper Ngau Tau Kok EstateGammon ConstructionJ. Roger Preston

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At Jerde Places its all about Experience

ACO - global drainage system experts

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ARQ discuss evolutions in hotel design

Amtico launch 2013 Signature Collection

Cultural respect the key to Atkins success

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Australias world renowned architectural icon turns 40

St. Legere craft inspired landscapes for swanky Bali resorts

Henderson Land unveils a new home away from home

LW Design Group brings fresh design sophistication to Asia

Generali Tower opens after a landmark refurbishment

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Situated on the Adriatic Sea, trading extensively with the Byzantine Empire and the Moslem world, by the late thirteenth century The Republic of Venice was the most prosperous city in all of Europe. During this time, Venices leading families vied with each other to build the grandest palaces and support the work of the greatest and most talented artists. 700 years on and Venice is one of the worlds most important cities for art and culture and is adored by millions around the world.

In such a truly international centre for trade and the arts, where better to find the celebrated Chinese architect William Lim of CL3 holding court at the Venice Biennales International Architectural Exhibition 2006 with his bamboo installation entitled Ladders, demonstrating unusual bamboo construction technique, unique to Hong Kong. 500 bamboo ladders tied together with traditional hand knotting technique, it resembles the solidity of a Chinese fortress. 30 red neon tubes, representing the 30 days in a Lunar month, encased in clear acrylic tubes, act as the structural tie beams to pull the 2 sides together. A floor of red mirror reflects and duplicates the structure downwards. The black lacquered bamboo represents Hong Kong Heritage, and the red neon and mirror represents the citys vibrancy and energy.

Venices founding families would wholeheartedly approve of Lims breathtaking neon ladder which celebrates high design in a visually complex yet controlled composition, the ancient and the modern, neo Chinese art in this classic European city.

In China and elsewhere in the world CL3 expand our community through outstanding architectural expression.

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Hong Kong7/F, Hong Kong Arts Centre, 2 Harbour Road, Wanchai

Tel: (852) 2527 1931

BeijingRm 112 Block A, Grand Pacific Building, 8 Guanghua Road, Chao Yang, District 100026

Tel: (8610) 6581 8811 or 8877

ShanghaiRm 1109, Kuen Yang International Business Plaza,

798 Zhaojiabang Road, District 200030

Tel: (8621) 6246 4156

BangkokRm 504, 5/F, Zuelling House, 1 Silom Road, Bangrak,

Bangkok 10500 ThailandTel: (662) 233 6140

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360o 360o

Art and form are embraced by CL3 at Shenzhens new talking point, 360 at the Shangri-La Hotel, where

four separate experiences, each linked through the design elements and colour palette, unite

into a very contemporary, exclusive restaurant and bar area maximising the stunning views

across Shenzhen and Hong Kong. The lift lobby entrance creates an immediate impact. The

lighting is dimmed, the glowing MD desk and dripping crystal chandelier, which extends

through the two floors help to prepare the guest for the drama of the bar and dining

areas. From the lift lobby, a staircase with a feature red glass railing leads to the 32/F

mezzanine floor and VIP Private Dining Room, Zen. Each of the four areas

is designed to be a progression of experience in an anti-clockwise route.

The starting point is the bar, then the Western Lounge, the Dining Area

and the Eastern Lounge. The lounges reflect their orientation as well as

a mix of styles. Screens, either glass or wooden, demarcate a circulation route and separate off each area.

This allows customers to pass through the different areas without disturbing other patrons. The main bar is clean and crisp with a simple colour palette of bright red and white. The semi sunken bar has back lit black, red and white featured glass panels and the two red spaghetti chandeliers over the bar help to define the area and have become a talking point of new patrons. In the evening the view over the bar, south towards Hong Kong, is stunning. White curved and ribbed high back banquettes and retro style lounge chairs give this area a young and funky atmosphere.

From the bar, customers are encouraged to move through to the Western lounge, a cool, clean and western style contemporary space, with a Chinese influence, a genuine fusion of east and west in blue with red, cream and tan. Antique Chinese artefacts are mixed with contemporary lighting and accessories to complete the ambience. The fine dining area features raised wooden platforms and partially enclosed booth seating with bright red curved and ribbed high back banquettes under the curved balconies of the 32/F. The design of this area, as with the main bar at the entrance, is clean

and contemporary with a palette in red and white. Curved balconies with cosy sofa

seats and dining tables on the 32/F gallery provide an excellent view whilst being

quite private.

The Eastern lounge is an eclectic space that invokes all the glamour of the 1930s Shanghai

Deco period and is an after dinner brandy and coffee lounge. Chinese hues in gold and red,

offset by a dark wood finish create an atmosphere that is both clubby and library-like with shelves of

unusual artefacts and books adorning the walls. Deco inspired furniture and light fittings complete the effect.

The border between Hong Kong SAR and China never looked this good.

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Text: Suzanne Dennis Photography: Nick Almasy & 2DEFINE Architecture Richard Lee

Currently under construction on the site of a former golf driving range and scheduled for completion in 2014, Shanghai Tower will complete a triple trio of super tall structures in Pudong, soaring 632 metres into the sky above one of the fastest growing and most dynamic cities in the world.

Shanghai Tower joins Jin Mao Tower and the Shanghai World Financial Centre to complete the vision for the Lujiazui financial district as originally conceived back in 1993 when, the Chinese government set up a Special Economic Zone in Chuansha, creating the Pudong New Area, the western tip of which was designated as the Lujiazui Finance and Trade Zone. Jin Mao Tower represents Chinas past and draws upon the influence of former traditional buildings in the city and their distinctive facades to signal a new 21st Century era of China structures and architecture. As the World Financial Centrerepresents Chinas present, it is Shanghai Tower that represents Chinas bold future.

Construction of this mega tower is being realised under the direction of 2DEFINE Architects, established by Marshall Strabala, Zhang Qiao and Zhou Shimiao in 2010. The practice is currently starting construction on three other significant buildings in China. Notably, in 2010, Strabala and 2DEFINE were also appointed to the Yingkou Convention and Exposition Centre in Yingkou, China, alongside the projects architect of record and national partner, Dalian Urban Planning and Design Institute.

For the last 6 years Strabala has been the Chief Architect of the Shanghai Tower. Prior to coming to Shanghai, he was an Associate Partner/Studio Head at Skidmore, Owings and Merrill LLP. He worked in Chicago for 18 years and directed the design for a clutch of other notable and globally recognised structures, including Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, the worlds tallest building - the Burj Khalifa in Dubai and the 450 metre tall Nanjing Zifeng tower. He was recruited by the international interiors firm, M Arthur Gensler Jr & Assoc. Inc, to develop an architectural practice. In 2006, Strabala led the original design team to the winning competition entry, beating out KPF, Fosters and his former colleagues at SOM. Strabala moved to Shanghai in 2008, to lead the Shanghai Tower design team, for schematic and design development, and never left.

Unique design

Built on former Pudong farmland comprising a primarily clay-based soil typical of a river delta, Shanghai Tower is supported by 831 reinforced concrete bore piles sunk over 80 metre deep into the ground. The 4.5 metre thick foundation mat was achieved by a small army of workers engaged in a marathon 60-hour continuous concrete pour utilising more than 61,000 cubic metres of concrete.

Strabala employed the lessons learned on the Burj Khalifia to create an elegant and efficient structure. Shanghai Tower assumes the form of nine distinct cylindrical buildings or zones that are stacked one on top of the other. This form is then wrapped in a second skin so that the entire 121 floors are enclosed by two glass facades. When complete, Shanghai Tower will be the worlds tallest double-skin building.

Shanghai Towers transparent facade is also unique, as most buildings only have a single faade comprising reflective glass in order to reduce heat absorption. In comparison, Shanghai Towers use of a double layer of glass eliminates a need for the traditional opaque single faade, Strabala says.

Between the inner layer and the outer layer, which twists as it rises, are nine distinct indoor zones, each 12-15 storeys high. These start with retail being housed in zone 1, through to office spaces in zones 2 to 6, to a hotel and boutique office in zones 7 and 8. The observation and cultural facilities located on zone 9 will culminate in an outdoor observation deck. Each zone will also provide public spaces for visitors and its own atrium featuring naturally growing gardens, restaurants and caf outlets, retail spaces and what will undoubtedly become the most stunning panoramic views across any metropolis in the world as a result of the 360 degree views.

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Shanghai Tower future living today

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If you walk from Marina Bay in Singapore through the central business area at Raffles Place, with all its rather dull high rise office buildings, and turn the corner after the last major office building on 1 George Street, you face the greenery of the Hong Lim Park right in front of you, famous for being the local Speakers Corner. It is as if a long run of office buildings suddenly comes to a pleasing stop. Now turn your head to the left, and you will spot a rather unusual building that looks non-urban for the first few floors, and then raises as office towers, like columns out of the undergrowth of a forest!

It looks like a mix of different sized layered plateaus, reminiscent of the topography you notice on a map of a hill, cut out with curvatures like rice paddy fields, all generously planted with mixed greenery and topped with three crisp towers

This mix of a garden and a building is the Parkroyal hotel on Pickering! 15,000 square metre of 16 storeys with 367 rooms, which opened with much anticipation in January this year.

Behind the hotel, the bustling China Town area spreads out all the way up to Tanjong Pagar, and on the opposite side of the park, Clarke Quay and the Singapore River with its numerous F&B and retail outlets only a short walk away. Hence the hotel is strategically placed as a connection point between very different and unique urban areas; the most

successful of these being an almost literal reflection of the horizontal urban park with a corresponding vertical garden.

Industry praise

This hotel was awarded the prestigious World Architecture News award as the Hotel of the Year in July this year, alongside the joint-winner: Raas Hotel in Rajasthan in India. The judging panel highlighted Parkroyals lush gardens that seem to spill like a waterfall of greenery into the surrounding metropolis and its radiating warmth and vitality in the cityscape. In addition, it was also short-listed in the recent World Architecture Festivals global awards celebration in the hotel category, where the 1st prize went to the citizenM London Bankside hotel.

The hotel was designed by the renowned WOHA architects, who came up with the unusual mix of streamlined tower blocks combined with open sided courtyards, which maximises views as well as natural light into the building. This combines with multi-layered gardens, which provides not only an attractive view of greenery both from within as well as from outside the building, but also helps to cool the building from the hot Singaporean sun. Reflecting pools, waterfalls and the variety of planting creates a

diverse scenery from ground floor and upwards, and allows for a bio-diversity not normally associated with buildings in Singapore.

It is an interesting building solution to a site that sits in the middle of such varied city areas, and certainly eye catching for being so different from its neighbouring buildings. Yet by complementing the greenery from the park, it can also be seen as an attempt to blend in. The same can be said for the three tower elements, trying to blend in with the neighbouring tower blocks. However, whereas the greenery is attractive and well executed it actually doubles the landscaping opportunity of the site it is the towers that cut through the soft curvature with its strict linearity that can seem a bit disappointing to the eyes of the beholder, instantly charmed by the more organic curvature, but less so as the view scans upwards. It is nevertheless a stunning and welcoming piece of architecture that rejuvenates the area around it because it breaks the mould, and is refreshingly green.

Green features

The building is also interesting by having achieved the highest rating of Platinum from Singapores Building and Construction Agency for its various sustainability features, including energy conservation, landscaping, greenery, innovation, recycling and water

saving. An admirable achievement to integrate and pursue sustainable solutions in so many different areas, for instance approximately 50 per cent of the guestroom corridors are out in the open, with fresh air and garden spaces; harvested rain water is used for the landscape areas, and planting is used to cool the building. The actual environmental performance of the building is unknown, but knowing that it can take up to 2 years to fully harvest all the sustainability outcomes in the operationalization of a new building, the jury is likely to be out for another year.

The S$350-million Parkroyal on Pickering has received accolade for its designs, and it seems to be doing well as a hotel too. It is a welcoming building that has been well received by most. It is an eye pleaser as an urban vertical garden, and the views of the greenery are pleasing both from the outside as well as from the inside. It deserved praise for having changed the cityscape in that part of Singapore. Hopefully this will continue to inspire architects to do more and better in the desire to sustain our environment as well as provide us all with charmed cityscapes.

Text: Niels Kemp Rasmussen Photos: PARK ROYAL Hotel & Patrick Bingham Hall Kelly Wan

Parkroyal on Pickering

The award winning Parkroyal hotel in Singapore, seems to have charmed most with its stunning architecture, and rubbed very few feathers in the architectural community. Much praise have already been heaped on the building world-wide it won the WAN award in 2013 and it was shortlisted in the recent World Architecture Festival competition in Singapore. It has also been awarded the Singapore Green Mark Platinum status for its sustainability features.

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Inspired by Alaskas famous igloo, its the future MTR Central Station for Northern China. The structure has four entrances for pedestrians, trains

any of the following amenities: ground and basement parking, rest rooms with showers, services for personal care, food courts, childrens playground, gift shops, business centres, theatres,

or condominiums and serviced apartments. The skylight provides additional lighting during the day and reduces electrical consumption.

Danilo A. Sumagui, KSR International

A gateway from China to Mongolia. A sequence of stretched arches

creates, at speed, the illusion of passing through a rigid tunnel-like structure, a memorable event after the monotony of the almost featureless Gobi desert.

The arches also evoke traditional Chinese moon gates or perhaps, the long necked Diplodocus Dinosaurs

which once ranged the vast Gobi plains.

James Gibson - Managing Director, dcm studios

China International WaterCity is conceived as a hub of life and activity based on universal

and sustaining principles of nature as design. It will be a memorable place with a visionary concept that creates a new urban model a seamless integration of multi-use functions, waterways and canals, living green towers, underworld caverns and compelling public

spaces that will usher in the next generation of the citys urban evolution. It synthesizes a

respect for the past with a clear vision for the future to create a compelling new paradigm

for urban life.

John Simones Partner, Director of Design, The Jerde Partnership, Inc.

Globalization will no longer be a problem but a driving force for the future building in China. We live in individual modular units that can be plugged into anywhere within China and around the world. Our buildings will be self-sustaining structures that produce energy, supply food, collect and recycle water. Our living quarters will be in proximity to our work place. It will be uneconomical to travel by car, instead the most advanced elevator system will link our daily functions both vertically and horizontally by a network of integrated transit system.

Jackie Luk - Senior Architect, Atkins

Located within a city park the Botanical Pavilion houses regional plant species that can only be found in China. As well as providing a covered public space within the park, visitors can learn about plant species and regional habitats. Within the basement level of the building visitors can explore a seed bank that displays a collection of seeds from indigenous plant and tree species.

Darren Maryon Principal Design Director, Street Architects

growing population of illegitimate migrant workers and the nascent concern for how and where things are made. This will bring the factory and the farm

typologies capable of supporting work across a radical range of scales. The speculative productive urban landscapes invite us to consider a new

Chung Hey Wang, Aedas

Floating visitor centre at Lijiang, Guilin, China. The visitor centre is the light-weight structure with ETFE as the envelop. Its form is in the same family of the mountain forms. The lightweight and transparent building skin provides the maximum visual connection to the surroundings. This kind of visitor centre is the mobile platform, which could be reached by boat. And it could be moved around in the river to give the visitors closer and elevated views to the river and mountains.

Chao Wu, Divisional Director, Benoy

A journey through the architectural phases in time which has lead to the transformation of the cities of China. An old civilization transforming its initial priority from the basic needs of man to a cacophony of technology. A resultant super structure rises above the modern metropolis, the symbol of this era of industrialization. Imposing its functionality and breaking the traditional chain between Architecture and Nature. It is a violent gesture, its a machine, its an engine. It questions the relationship between City and Countryside, Man and Machine, Past and Future.

Corrado Falsetti - Senior Architect, Atkins

Concept for a green vertical city. Integrating Chinas rich historic

building fabric and recent industrial expansion into a human scale, pedestrian friendly, mixed use

development fed by contemporary high-rise living and working

accommodation. Achieving a high- density low transport solution both

visually and culturally rich.

David Hoggard, Managing Director, pdp[east]

The building of the future could be oriented and structured around a notion of FAMILY. It is very basic that one family lives in a house. However with a rapid urbanization, increasingly more people are living in dispersed conditions and often living alone. My hope is that somehow the buildings of the future could enclose a family and tie together a close community.

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40,000 km away from the earths surface. This amazing new world in the sky will be connected by what the future will call The Great Ladder of China. A journey which culminates in a marvellous collection of famous Chinese landmarks.

Benjamin-Murray Allan, KSR International

China has now overtaken the US and Middle East in building tall. We are already seeing a number of four hundred metre towers emerge. So in the next decade China will probably look towards eight hundred metres or even a kilometre. This will bring challenges with horizontal stability and vertical circulation. Also the massive populations of these buildings, divorced from the ground plane, will require the civic and recreational aspects of the city to follow them to these heights.

Ian Milne - Design Director, Atkins

The basic layout of Chengdu dates back to the Qing Dynasty. Most rivers, bridges,

streets and alleys were well preserved until 1949 when the citys new construction

started. Its morphology is a perfect example of what architecture aims to

achieve: balance and sensuality. The bridge museum project is a project for today and

tomorrow, where culture, landscape and public space reset the cityscape where it

should be, at its heart. The building merges, links, connects and gives.

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This multi-purpose Shelter, aims to re-urbanize the city of Beijing to promote

a new way of social interaction and to weave a dynamic population composition together, providing habitation for farmers and other professionals from all walks of life with communal spaces ranging from

agriculture corners to social services. Eco materials and systems will be utilized, with solar panels on rooftops, or living roofs to

host sports or performances. These Shelters teach the value individual life and

the greater community.

Jane Ho - Director, Even Pina Architecture

In order to design a better living habitat we shall table the current and upcoming environmental problem. Because the glaciers and ice bergs are melting, sea levels are rising. To preserve the remaining fresh water I suggest building man-made lakes and reservoirs, by removing huge amounts of soil and rocks, in some cases creating new mountains surrounding the lakes. As well as storing water a pleasant environment can be created which will aid plants and animals and safeguard biodiversity.

Danny Man-Wai Ng - Director, 4N Architects

Guangzhou represents a typical phenomenon in China because of its overcrowding, limited resources and lack of urban planning. Here a mega infrastructure is proposed to provide a second chance of rethinking how the city can be developed in the future. By using existing blocks as support and introducing an adaptive frame base, basically this whole kinetic system is designed to give enormous shelters for people and a complex transportation system underneath.

Chris C. Chen, Aedas

Inspired by the traditional moveable-type printing press invented in China a thousand years ago, this design embraces the foundation of journalism and celebrates new technology. This unique project includes the masterplan for a new cultural centre, museum and a landmark Newspaper Headquarters building. The simple moveable-type block print form renders into the contemporary a pixel block blueprint of modern digital formats. Set in a rolling landscape with links to the waterfront, it becomes the ideal place to read, write and inspire.

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The Gallery exhibits native trees and sculpture contained in a series of outdoor rooms. Characteristics of colour, texture, form and movement, create a series of carefully composed scenes. The rooms are linked by rendered white walls, articulated with windows, framing views within. Water rills and pools are fed from natural drainage systems, reliant on the climate, creating an ever-changing landscape. Visual interest is increased with level changes engaging the axial and zig-zag pathways, leading a sensory procession through the gallery.

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create them in the sky. It advocates for a new hybrid alternative that can

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Prof Jason Pomeroy - Director, Broadway Malyan

Its about our land. Its about how we integrate architecture with our nature. Its about new experience for our civic space.

John CF Cheng - Director, Ronald Lu & Partners

In the last decade so much world-class architecture has appeared in Chinas cities. These heroic architectural expressions are well established globally.

for average citizens living conditions remain low, so I suggest that many of the mid to low rise structures built in the 70s and 80s could be re-clad with smart, sustainable envelopes to suit todays needs whilst ensuring affordable space for more people and reducing potential redevelopment waste.

Phil Kwong - Associate, HOK International

The ultimate in unique beach resorts, this exclusive aqua marina hotel would be set on a small island. A secluded Bond-esque destination, this three- storey extension to the island houses private water villas, spa and underwater restaurant features. Perched like a heron on the side of the island, the main elevated building incorporates state-of-the-art technology. Exuding pure paradise, guests can drink their martinis whilst gazing at the underwater reef or reclining on the green rooftop garden overlooking the South China Sea.

Cedric Tang - Associate, TFP Farrells

In next decade, the Great Wall of Speech will travel from city to city as a public plug-in, providing opportunities for all people to voice out their wishes. It is a moving device that connects city to city, allowing communication between all people. Speech as an image of freedom, an image of civilization and an image of China in next decade.

Sarah Mui Sze Wa, The Oval Partnership

Through Chinas economic boom and status as an emerging market, there is a general consensus that Chinese culture

has been increasingly left behind. I propose an alternative museum, a

cultural library containing the history

have a white lift indicating the future and exposed framework to build future

always be a garden allowing visitors to stop, pause and contemplate the future.

Claire Hall, KSR International

of the ground under constant pressure. In an interplay of light, transparency and colour, the multi-layer faade lends the building a diffuse, vibrant quality. A load-bearing concrete outer wall, conceived according to sound engineering and economic principles, punctuated by 4500 windows in an irregular arrangement, provides a good thermal shield. The space between the faade layers forms a thermal cushion allowing a natural air circulation.

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The skyscraper prototype in the next decade. With numerous skyscrapers being built in Chinese cities, the sense of tallness and fetish of icon have been pushed to the extreme. It is an irreversible movement. They become more ambitious in

the icon of icons. Construction never ends to compete with the height; faade evolves to satisfy the demand of new image; programs behind the skin keep changing to suit the needs of the city.

Justin Law Chun Wai, HOK International

The Crystal Ball is a visionary giant gesture to the Mongolian culture. The sphere, inspired by the shape of Cnotaphe Newton (1784, tienne-Louis Boulle) is located in the capital of Ulaanbaatar. The beauty of the traditional architecture will challenge the design of contemporary buildings which will grow all around as fast as the Mongolian economy. As intentionally out of scale it has been wrapped within the curved glass to keep it untouched, intact and preserved.

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Architects Visions in PRCTo mark the 10th Anniversary of PRC Magazine we wanted to peer into the minds of those who design the societies in which we live, work and play. The sketches featured here offer a profound insight into the way architects process ideas to develop solutions for an increasingly complex built environment. We are extremely grateful to all the busy professionals who gave their valuable time to join our anniversary celebration.

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Project: PRC Construction Magazine: 10th Anniversary

The team decided to invite a range of architects from some influencial international architure companies to draw what they feel it would be the future of architect. PRC team would select the one they feel more true to the vision. and I design these A1 posted as an insert into the magazine.

Project: PRC Construction Magazine: advertisement

This just a various companies which I do advertisement for while in PRC magazine.

Project: Harpers Estate Agent: Rebranding, marketing leaflets, and Christmas card.

Brief: Redesign a whole new logo, branding for a traditional estate agency in High Street Kensington, London.

Solution: After my chat with the client. one of the three approach was to create a feel of fine art and high class lifestyle. At the end I consider a painting of Mark Rothko as the logo. Which can adapt to all their promotional literature.

Then I start experimenting with using the logo but with another artist style to promote as well as using a doomsday book idea for their direct mailer.

For their advertising in magazine and news paper. I used the same format with but using the theme of 4 seasons but changes the logo colour to depict season.

Project: Hip Hing Construction: 50th anniversary book

Brief: A celebration of their 50th anniversary with a serious of their iconic projects .

Hip Hing is one of the biggest building contractor in Hong Kong and Macau. They had built: Convention Centre, Lippo Centre, The Peak, Tamar Government Building, Hong Kong Disney, K11, Cyberport., MGM Macau...etc

This project has took 6 months to complete due to the dark dull winter weather. As 90% of the buildings need to reshoot to show it is still as stunning as it was first built. I was involved from start to finish. Starting with how the project is being flow across the book, designing of the book, checking on writers, suggesting quotations to pull out, and art direct the photographers, as well as going to all meetings to liaise with clients and marketing team, a swell as controlling the time sechdule.

Project: KIngs Fund: Corporate Report and promotional leaflets

Client: KIngs Fund is the biggest government organisation in UK which is to develop and train consultants, nurses, doctors to the new development of medicine.

I worked with Kings Fund for 7 years, graduated from designing their leaflets below to their annual reports and other more important literatures. In the end I was helping them develop their branding and direction of their leaflets with their art department.

Project: Walk for Life AIDS campaign materials: booklet, letterhead, leaflets, and posters.

Brief: Their annual Walk for Life campaign supporting people with AIDS. ( annual free design for charity )

After looking at their previous years of promotion. I realise the had to be fun and colourful. I ask them to organised a man, a wmone, a child and a photographer to volunteer for a photoshoot. And ask them to bring as much shoes and costume which just for the legs only. After the photoshoot. I digitally change and colour about 30 pictures and lay themout to look like pop art.

Walk for Life posters has never been shown into Zone one of London. This was their first year in which they had a vast turn out. and posters in Zone one underground. As London underground chooses only a few of their charity organisation to put up in their walls for free.

During this process I also redesign their logo, their revious logo was just a pair of feet walking. I feel it is haertful to give to char-ity. By creating 3 hearts link together and looks like 3 people walking out. Shows it is ok to walk out of the closet and join in.

Project: Tesco Clothing marketing materials

Brief: Tesco marketing manager has approached and declined 3 other design company before she reach me through another of my client. She has a vision of simplicity and fun in mind for Tesco clothing marketing materials.

Solution: Winter Marketing pack. when I presented the kinen texture paper and an idea of silver foiling as icicles. She was sold. with a printed of a aqua colour at the back to make the letterhaed more icy blue when you read from the letter.

The Shoe leaflet she wanted autumn feel. I make a concentina leaflet which I fold it not equally to allow the from to to pop as you read the leaflet. The front cover was a dried leaf which I suggested 3 different colour of bronze metallic.

Project: Writers Conference in Holland: programme

Brief: A writers conference in Utrecht. In which the client wants the programme to be able to read once. They want the conference is about how we human absorb information and find information.

The solution: the book was to be ringbound in all four sides. The cover are boxes of scratch card. in which you has to scratch each box which will lead you to the name of the conference.

Inside, you have to rip the pages to be able to read inside or when a new writer is speaking and it rip from all direction. At the end it will be just a pile of paper protruding from all four sides, but if you choose to decide you can put it all together as the paper are all different.