HONG KONG
“Proudly international yet unmistakably local”
As recently as last November, Bloomberg was comparing debt levels in the Hong Kong property market to the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997-98. That was then. By early January, in between major transactions and a continuing run of IPOs boosting demand for high-quality office space, the mood shift was palpable, and the turnaround has come…
In 1985, HSBC stunned the architectural world with its $1 billion headquarters building, a steel suspended structure so bold, experimental and expensive that it was an immediate lightning rod for controversy. Designed by a then little-known British architect, Norman Foster, it was seen as a statement of commitment to Hong Kong’s future, soon after the…
Loron Orris gives the lowdown on the nexus between sports and Hong Kong
How the SPCA is unleashing Hong Kong’s pet economy
Hong Kong’s Northern Metropolis is the subject of intense planning with the resumption of land on a huge scale to build effectively a new central business district adjacent to mega-city Shenzhen. Ryan Ip explains that there are still gaps in coordination and financing to take the Northern Metropolis from blueprint to reality.
A tour of Kai Tak Sports Park and its spectacular main stadium with Lead Architect Richard Breslin, Senior Principal & APAC Managing Director, Populous
Catherine Kwai said when she opened her gallery in 1991, she had “less respect than opening a flower shop”
This summary of the February 14 panel discussion is by Edith Terry, editor of AmCham HK e-Magazine. Individual speakers are identified only as ‘panelists’ or ‘audience.’
by Tony Miller
by Paul French
Q&A with Michael J. Enright
“What can one person do?” Samantha Power
by Krish Sundaresan
A conversation with Kin Chan
by Edith Terry
by Stephen Roach
by Lincoln Innes
by Edith Terry
AmCham HK Input and Response