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Moving to HongKong

juliancalifornia

Hi there,
Currently living in Shangai at the moment, I'm considering moving to HongKong in the next few months. Would you recommend any offices ? Share your working experience there ? If you're living there, please mail me!
Cheers,
Julian

 
Apr 14, 06 4:58 am
AP

don't know if they have a website, but RAD, headed by Aaron Tan -formerly Rem's partner for OMA Asia - is located in HongKong.

had some friends from school work there, they loved it...one plans on returning in a few months, last I heard...

Apr 14, 06 5:06 pm  · 
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casual

gary chang, bitch!

Apr 14, 06 5:08 pm  · 
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bUbBLe
Hong Kong Institute of Architects
Apr 14, 06 5:19 pm  · 
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swisscardlite

i lived there for four years but i'm not an architect. I had a great experience there. have fun!

Apr 15, 06 2:45 am  · 
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RAD has some good work, but is very stressfull. It is a bit understaffed and the office is very very cramped. Alot of people only stay for a few months because of this. Recently someone came to work there from Europe and left after only 2 weeks. I never worked there, but 2 friends of mine have and I hang out with them and the other RAD kids whenever I am in Hong Kong, and thats what I've heard from them. Also (although english is all you need) in Hong Kong they speak cantonese... so if your trying to learn mandarin thats a negative. Plus the sound of it can be agravating by itself haha... theres a reason the mandarin speakers on the mainland side call it Niao Yu, which is bird language. Hong Kong rocks though so youll have a blast if you go. I live on the Shenzhen side and I go to Hong Kong fairly often, so if you have more questions feel free.

Apr 15, 06 4:10 am  · 
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juliancalifornia

does rad office has a website ?
Can't find it...

Apr 15, 06 6:31 pm  · 
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I don't know if they have a website, but this is Ulrich Kirchof's email address: email.uk@rad-dar.com he is an associate at RAD, so I am sure he can give you more information / a website address if they have one.

Apr 16, 06 1:16 am  · 
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cs

Are U speak cantonese or Mandarin?

Apr 16, 06 11:49 am  · 
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timeless

I was there last summer and visited a few firms. Gary Chang's firm was pretty nuts more of a night club then an office. Check out ARK, William Liu is the principal. It seemed like a decent smaller firm. URBANUS is in Shenzhen but is definetly worth checking out if it is posible for you to work in Shenzhen.

Apr 16, 06 3:28 pm  · 
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