Pang, of AaaM Architects, set out to locate Hong Kong’s Brutalist past with other local design professionals, who formed a team of architectural sleuths. They identified more than 70 buildings, 15 of which now feature in an exhibition showing how the architectural style made its mark on Hong Kong’s educational, industrial and religious building — The South China Morning Post
The St. Stephen’s building was designed by Tao Ho, who died in 2019. Ho was also responsible for Hong Kong’s Bauhinia flower flag design, as well as its still-standing Arts Center, which opened in 1977.
The exhibition came together with the help of an AaaM intern named Alison Chan Lok-yan, who created building elevations for each of the 15 structures by hand using pencil and a grey paper material commonly used by architects in the 1970s.
Pang told the South China Morning Post brutalism reflects “the social conditions of the time and should be considered for conservation.” A full look at the group’s effort to preserve some of the city’s brutalist past can be found here.
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