2 yrs work: fighting for the importance of personal space for great minds in metropolitans. We have so much to say about this topic....🤫2年的工作：為都市人爭取獨立空間。對關於這個話題，我有很多話想說....🤭#hongkong #oootopia #economical #servicedapartments #groundwork_architects Sung Wong Toi
我終於有勇氣去對傳媒流露我對現今建築師角色的變革、AI帶來的挑戰、中國、與設計教育需要變革的大膽看法。I was definitely stirring up some debates about the changing roles of architects and the need to revolutionise architecture design education, impact of AI and China. An interview that i was trying to be slightly braver. Regards, Manfred Yuen
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堅定不移地做自己應該做的事，這就是專業！
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Jonathan Lau, who has almost competed his year-our training, posing as a cross breed of captain American and the Thor with our facade sample. #captainamerica #kennedytown #memepotential #groundworkarchitecture #groundworkarchitect #groundwork_architects
Sharing like mindedness with Ian Hau, who came all the way to Kennedy Town to have a new year lunch! An ex-teacher of urbanism at HKU, Ian is definitely a visionary who is keen on improving HK. Both of us have also started our satellites at Shenzhen. Very lucky to reunite with a friend. #xlms #kennedytown
Last interview of 2018: by 4 Diocesan Girls' School (DGS) Form 2 students. They are 14 years old and they are razor sharp! #dgs #groundworkarchitect #groundwork_architects #groundworkarchitecture #kennedytown #sharpstudents
End of year late site visit to our extension of a music hall for the Alliance Primary School with our new China team members.
Wish you all a merry Xmas. Great to see the best present: our first album, GROUNDWORK, by Injury.
Sharing the ups and downs on children's playground research, social architecture and brand design with Joyce Yeung, the esteemed RTHK DJ. Xmas show! 🎅🏻🎅🏼🎅🏽🎅🏾🎅🏿 與香港電台普通話台著名主持人Joyce Yeung(楊子矜)和鄭敏兒、陳謙 分享兒童政策研究、社會建築與品牌設計的起與落。。Xmas show! 🎅🏻🎅🏼🎅🏽🎅🏾🎅🏿.#groundworkarchitect #groundwork_architects #groundworkarchitecture @ Radio Television Hong Kong 香港電台
The only real failure is to stop learning from failures. On today’s Shing Tao Daily A13. 與香港市民談論失敗。在芳園書室上了一課。古蹟保育不只是硬件，更需要從宏觀考慮旅遊業、經濟學及整體規劃等等的平衡發展。
Friends! Groundwork didn’t design this! The heroes were the HK ArchSD, LCSD and Playright! I was just talking about our research.
On Hong Kong Playground:
【香港遊樂場】屯門新遊樂場玩沙玩水！建築師：香港遊樂場缺乏冒險性，太安全！
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【香港遊樂場】屯門新遊樂場玩沙玩水！建築師：香港遊樂場缺乏冒險性，太安全！
hk.lifestyle.appledaily.com
全港包括康文署轄下、公共屋邨及私人屋苑的遊樂場逾600個，然而現時普遍所見的遊樂場購入的都是組裝式遊樂設施，很多時看到一秒瀡完的滑梯，難怪小朋友都覺得悶。屯門公園內的共融遊樂場於12月3日開幕，其設計概念源自...
I can’t believe that we have our first album, Groundwork!!!!! A music piece for kids space. Composed by Eugene Wai Tak Leung/Theinjury.
INJURY x GROUNDWORK VINYL ALBUM] Pre-order is here!
Digital album also available at bandcamp now 🙂 You will get two 20mins+ music tracks in this album 🙂
injury.bandcamp.com/album/groundwork
All music created by Eugene Wai Tak Leung of I N J U R Y
![I can’t believe that we have our first album, Groundwork!!!!! A music piece for kids space. Composed by Eugene Wai Tak Leung/Theinjury.
INJURY x GROUNDWORK VINYL ALBUM] Pre-order is here!
Digital album also available at bandcamp now 🙂 You will get two 20mins+ music tracks in this album 🙂
https://injury.bandcamp.com/album/groundwork
All music created by Eugene Wai Tak Leung of I N J U R Y](https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/s720x720/47396669_2400138830001685_9010003181190512640_n.jpg?_nc_cat=102&_nc_ht=scontent.xx&oh=308e4af8aa1deb01a977a809dd2db259&oe=5CFD65EB)
Gingko House is not an ordinary restaurant, but the first social enterprise in Hong Kong to promote employment of the elderly. As a social enterprise,
Gingko House aims to provide employment opportunities for elders who have financial or emotional needs, so that they can regain self confidence and affirm themselves.
Since its establishment in 2003, Gingko House has employed for more than 3,000 elderly.
In 2016, The Gingko lost their lease of their main restaurant and they were desperate to find a new space. Hong Kong is rated as one of the most expensive city to live in the world and it has the highest real-estate prices, opening a new restaurant in Hong Kong is difficult.
Jeffrey is in the advertising industry and he was the founder of a local advertising company, PMM Media, which promotes social enterprises. Perhaps it was through his media network that Jeffrey had learned the difficulties that Gingko House (銀杏館) was facing. Jeffrey had persuaded his father to lease out one of their units within the Alhambra Building for Gingko House, which has a net floor area of 300 square meters.
Not only did Mr. Kwok senior agreed to rent out a unit with a net floor area of 300 square meters., he only asked for one-eight of the market rate as rent, hoping that the low rent would aid Gingko House’s business and facilitate their social causes.
The Gingko had chosen us for the work not only because of our past successful restaurant design cases, but perhaps for our philosophy and humanistic approach towards architecture.
We have built several successful restaurant chains in Hong Kong and China and we have been experimenting with the thematic of Hong Kong’s colour and nostalgia for the past years.
This is a Vietnam food restaurant, and as there are no windows we have full control of the lighting. We thought to create an environment where the visitors may felt that they were trapped in the Saigon back in the 1960s.Gingko House is not an ordinary restaurant, but the first social enterprise in Hong Kong to promote employment of the elderly. As a social enterprise,
Gingko House aims to provide employment opportunities for elders who have financial or emotional needs, so that they can regain self confidence and affirm themselves.
Since its establishment in 2003, Gingko House has employed for more than 3,000 elderly.
In 2016, The Gingko lost their lease of their main restaurant and they were desperate to find a new space. Hong Kong is rated as one of the most expensive city to live in the world and it has the highest real-estate prices, opening a new restaurant in Hong Kong is difficult.
Jeffrey is in the advertising industry and he was the founder of a local advertising company, PMM Media, which promotes social enterprises. Perhaps it was through his media network that Jeffrey had learned the difficulties that Gingko House (銀杏館) was facing. Jeffrey had persuaded his father to lease out one of their units within the Alhambra Building for Gingko House, which has a net floor area of 300 square meters.
Not only did Mr. Kwok senior agreed to rent out a unit with a net floor area of 300 square meters., he only asked for one-eight of the market rate as rent, hoping that the low rent would aid Gingko House’s business and facilitate their social causes.
The Gingko had chosen us for the work not only because of our past successful restaurant design cases, but perhaps for our philosophy and humanistic approach towards architecture.
We have built several successful restaurant chains in Hong Kong and China and we have been experimenting with the thematic of Hong Kong’s colour and nostalgia for the past years.
This is a Vietnam food restaurant, and as there are no windows we have full control of the lighting. We thought to create an environment where the visitors may felt that they were trapped in the Saigon back in the 1960s.
This is a short story of the goodness in Hong Kong; a philanthropist and a social enterprise - working hand-in-hand - for the good of elderly employments.
The Gingko House new flagship restaurant is a community project. Gingko House is a restaurant chain that provide employment for the elders. We have attempted to retain the existing weathered and aged interior spatial quality to echo the unique business nature of this social enterprise which was set up out of the love for the elders.
For those of you who are not familiar with Hong Kong, Temple Street was, and still is, one of the cities red-light districts mainly visited by aged local men and currently, Temple Street is now dazzling with tourism.
This Gingko restaurant also named "Viet-Street(it is a Vietnamese Restaurant), which is a social enterprise, is ironically situated above a “Mahjong School”. The Kwok’s family - the landlord of the Gingko House - ran a chain of "Mahjong Schools"(a.k.a. Mahjong parlors) in Hong Kong and his flagship outlet is situated on the ground floor of a sixty years old building called the Alhambra Building (平安大廈) in Kowloon, Yau Ma Tei, near Temple Street. The Kwok’s family also owns other units within the same building.
Running Mahjong school is a tough and hardening business, because they are essential bookmakers.
To be continued….This is a short story of the goodness in Hong Kong; a philanthropist and a social enterprise - working hand-in-hand - for the good of elderly employments.
The Gingko House new flagship restaurant is a community project. Gingko House is a restaurant chain that provide employment for the elders. We have attempted to retain the existing weathered and aged interior spatial quality to echo the unique business nature of this social enterprise which was set up out of the love for the elders.
For those of you who are not familiar with Hong Kong, Temple Street was, and still is, one of the cities red-light districts mainly visited by aged local men and currently, Temple Street is now dazzling with tourism.
This Gingko restaurant also named "Viet-Street(it is a Vietnamese Restaurant), which is a social enterprise, is ironically situated above a “Mahjong School”. The Kwok’s family - the landlord of the Gingko House - ran a chain of "Mahjong Schools"(a.k.a. Mahjong parlors) in Hong Kong and his flagship outlet is situated on the ground floor of a sixty years old building called the Alhambra Building (平安大廈) in Kowloon, Yau Ma Tei, near Temple Street. The Kwok’s family also owns other units within the same building.
Running Mahjong school is a tough and hardening business, because they are essential bookmakers.
To be continued….
it looks pretty amazing mr yuen
Anna
Great restaurant, great food, great service 👍
An interesting community cum business making story Manfred Yuen Would like to hear more if we meet up sometimes😏
Excellent
Good extend to sri lanka
Toy as Architecture part 3: Create your Avatar with Flynn. You can walk into the “head”, scan your self, and enter a new world with new clothes.
Our second collaboration with Eugene leung, theinjury, and fffriday. We are experimenting with Y2K aesthetics.
Now at SCAD: going to tour other universities. #fffriday #eugeneleung #groundwork_architects #groundworkarchitecture
Toy as Architecture part 3: Create your Avatar with Flynn. You can walk into the “head”, scan your self, and enter a new world with new clothes.
Our second collaboration with Eugene leung, theinjury, and fffriday. We are experimenting with Y2K aesthetics.
Now at SCAD: going to tour other universities. #fffriday #eugeneleung #groundwork_architects #groundworkarchitecture
I wish to thank one of my best friends, Wynn. Bay, for the wonderful report on our Fairyland Playscape design on Indesign. We were told that the Playscape/art was very well received by the public.
The real rewards were the laughters from the children and visitors. Thank you all! 🙏🏼😘💪🏽
Manfred Yuen
www.indesignlive.hk/articles/projects/groundwork-playful-architecture-k11
Groundwork Experiments With Playful Architecture At K11Indesignlive.hk
indesignlive.hk
The Fairyland Playscape installation by Groundwork was a mountainous playscape for all ages. We speak to the firm’s co-founder Manfred Yuen.海寧查家：我們在中國的第二個項目就在海寧。在浙江，我看見了查先生創作的泉源。和很多中國人一樣，有幸看過他的全部武俠創作。但如果你去過他的故居，你可能會認為，他這些偉大的著作是他的宿命。
