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枡野俊明 ANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE THE HONG KONG INSTITUTE OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS 談園說境 Lpod AUTUMN 2017 keeping calmness intact Shunmyo Masuno The Pavilia Hill

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Page 1: ANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE · 2017. 9. 18. · The design concept comes from the Zen word “San Sui Ni Sei On Ari”, meaning ‘in nature of mountain and river people can hear clear

枡野俊明

ANDSCAPEARCHITECTURE

THEHONG KONGINSTITUTE OFLANDSCAPEARCHITECTS

談園說境Lpod

AUTUMN2017

keeping calmness intact

Shunmyo Masuno

The Pavilia Hill

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The landscape garden of The Pavilia Hill is shaped by Japanese Zen principles and the wabi-sabi aesthetic, which embraces the simplicity and raw beauty of nature. Situated in the busy city of Hong Kong, the Pavilia Hill comprises of five residential building linked by a japanese landscape garden created by Shunmyo Masuno (枡野 俊明), one of the world’s most preeminent Japanese garden designers, as well as the Head priest of Kenko-ji Temple and Professor at the Tama Art University.

The design concept comes from the Zen word “San Sui Ni Sei On

Ari”, meaning ‘in nature of mountain and river people can hear clear and pure sound’. The design aims to provide a spitually fulfilled life enclosed by nature within an urban setting.

by New World Development

Keeping calmness intact

The Pavilia Hill

The landscape design comprises of straight lines which represent urban elements, and curve lines which represent nature elements. Natural waves are expressed by large rough texture natural stone planter and feature walls, while urban elements are expressed by smooth rectangular black granite stones. Both urban and nature elements are unified in one single space.

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straight lines vs curve lines

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The tea pavillion opens a view of a small karesansui (dry) garden.

Although Zen gardens are usually small and confined, they convey important Zen principles such as emptiness (kyo) and infinite space. Emptiness is often expressed as beauty in blankness or emptiness, and “emptiness is the fountain of infinite possibilities.” Infinite space is also created through changes in scale and perspective.

emptiness and infinity

Sounds of water droplets and light effects stimulate endless revelations

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The main garden, comprises waves of gravel as foreground, and rough textured mountain-like natural rocks and rectangular black granite stone as background, seemingly resemble the urban and natural landscape in Hong Kong. The black granite stones and cloud-like shrubs and groundcovers are carefully arranged to add depth and diamension.

Rocks have long been used in Chinese and Japanese gardens. Each rock has its unique qualities and were treated with great respect. They are believed to contain the essential energy of the earth. The contrasting color and form of natural rock placed in front of a dark stone wall and grey granite pavement evoke the power of nature.

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The centre-piece of the garden is the five stone sculptures. They were made by Masuno out of aji stone from Mount Goken in Japan, each has an unique texture and meaning. Representing the five elements of nature: San (Mountain), Sui

(Water), Ari (Existence), Sei (Purity) and On (Sound). They are placed at the entrance the of the five residential buildings, giving each of them a unique identity.

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Representing urban elements: a sculpted stone wall, roughly textured with the marks of the artist’ s hand-work on a smoothly polished black granite.

The five elements of nature

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Lighting is carefully designed to highlight the cascading water over the textured stone walls, creating a strong sensory experience. The sound of the waterfalls also screens off the noise from the hectic city, creating a sense of calm.

Water expresses harmony. Zen expression refers water not having its own shape, yet harmoniously responding and adapting to its surroundings. In the water garden, water droplets are emitted from the roof, creating sounds of water droplets which stimulates revelations.

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Photo credit: Mr. Terence Wong (APD of NWPM)

Photo credit: Mr. Terence Wong (APD of NWPM)Photo credit: Mr. Terence Wong (APD of NWPM)

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How do we define quality in urban design? It’s a difficult one to measure, due to the vast range of inputs influencing the urban realm, ranging from physical geography, through social science, and an appreciation for those disciplines involving cultural stewardship, urban economics, political economy, environmental impact and social theory. Whilst we do want to make attractive urban places, much of what is created in our cities frequently fails to consider urban design functions, and does not adequately meet the needs and expectations of the majority of users. Urban space decision making being carried out in China in particular, has for a long time been predominantly based the aesthetic and ephemeral over and above the efficient and effective.

Superficial Beauty Conquering Urban Substance

Painting pretty pictures…but does it work?

Barry Wilson, Barry Wilson Project Initiatives

Members’ Corner

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GREAT EXPECTATIONSI now live next to a park. Not just any old park, but the latest 5km section of the Shenzhen Bay Park, now an 18km linear, public waterfront linking from central to western Shenzhen. This ambitious project provides essential and uninterrupted walkways, cycle tracks and recreation areas, overlooking the Bay area towards the undeveloped mountains of northern Hong Kong. It aims to service the ever burgeoning Shenzhen population clamouring for recreation space.

The first section, the Hongshulin Coastal Ecological Park opened in December 2000, as a wetland and habitat reserve, and is considered China’s only inner-city coastal mangrove wetland. It’s connected to the Binhai Seaside Promenade which was upgraded into the Shenzhen Bay Coastal Recreation Zone in 2011 and extended south to the new development area of Houhai and the Shenzhen Bay Bridge.

Designed by the world renowned SWA group the impressive project aimed to restore acres of mangrove coastline and marsh habitat, deepen the bay to reverse siltation, and design sensitive public access to these naturalised features. Importantly the park was intended to extend from the street grid of the newly created residential communities to offer pedestrian connections with the restored coastline and recreation spaces.

THE REALITY Being so attractive, the park has been impressively popular. Too popular in fact since it just cannot cope with the visitor pressure on weekends and public holidays. This despite the fact that it has been effectively isolated behind 6 lanes of parallel coastal highway.

Only one neighbourhood path was however connected to the 13kms of park, as well as a couple of randomly located pedestrian bridges and tunnels. The integrated community connections, essential to a park have not really happened, however even without a metro stop the masses still arrived.

The park incorporated small car parks at intervals alongside the highway, encouraging the new middle class to visit by car. Chaos ensued, as never-ending arrivals unable to get into full car parks, parked along the highway, sometime for several kilometres long.

Shenzhen Bay Coastal Recreation Zone aims to restore acres of mangrove coastline and marsh habitat, deepen the bay to reverse siltation, and design sensitive public access to these naturalised features.

Huge crowds fill the amphitheatre at Shenzhen Bay Coastal Recreation Zone

Small car parks at intervals encouraging visits by car. Chaos ensues on weekends with abandoned vehicles along the highway, sometimes reaching several kilometres long.

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PRETTY DRAWINGSQuality urban design has a strong spatial dimension and yet optimises relationships between people, activities, and networks. It considers buildings, places and spaces not as isolated elements, but as part of a bigger picture. Buildings are connected to their streets, the streets to their wider neighbourhood, the neighbourhoods to the city structure, and the city within its region. Urban design recognises that towns and cities are part of a constantly evolving relationship between people, land, culture and the wider environment.

The great Chinese development bonanza of the last 20 years has been conspicuous for its frequent lack of any urban design thinking. Stunning landmark buildings have been erected

with little or no relationship to their surroundings, grids of wide and beautifully landscaped streets have been bulldozed across ancient neighbourhoods and acres of new park created behind barriers of roads, walls of moving steel.

This has come firstly out of an understanding that planning means creating and connecting grey infrastructure, roads, drains and sewers, and the most efficient form is a straight line between two points. To the planners, land has just been white space on a piece of paper. It has not been lives, history, culture, environments, communities, water, food, health or aesthetics. It is numbers, areas and a fresh start. Building roads is the first tool of the planner. They use them to burrow, tunnel, align, bridge, sever and destroy. Roads are the planners axe, their one-dimensional weapon of choice in opening up new development.

And new development can look very good on a drawing, even if it is of the wrong type in the wrong place. Investors may not be able to scan a set of development proposals and easily identify the potential social conflicts, environmental impacts or economic inefficiencies any better than the local Mayor, but they can appreciate a pretty picture when they see one, and Chinese designers have been fantastic at marketing new development based

on pretty pictures. Colourful arrows, bold axes, wide plazas, flying kites and soaring birds proliferate in wonderfully produced renderings and videos. Shiny buildings in blue skies surrounded by endless woodland. No sign of flattened hillsides, relocated communities, lost floodplains or empty real estate.

Have a nice trip! Yes there are steps here.

Decision makers need to be, and should quite rightly expect to be, informed by highly qualified professionals. They have not been. They have appointed designers with limited experience but good referrals. They have looked to friends and connections and been guided by old university hands, experienced only in the ways of yore. They have looked at pictures presented of overseas wonders by young hands who have never visited them. The results have been imposed on a public that knows no better.

Have a nice trip! Yes there are steps here.

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“Whether it be the sweeping eagle in his flight, or the open apple-blossom, the toiling work-horse, the blithe swan, the branching oak, the winding stream at its base, the drifting clouds, over all the coursing sun, form ever follows function, and this is the law. Where function does not change, form does not change. The granite rocks, the ever-brooding hills, remain for ages; the lightning lives, comes into shape, and dies, in a twinkling.

It is the pervading law of all things organic and inorganic, of all things physical and metaphysical, of all things human and all things superhuman, of all true manifestations of the head, of the heart, of the soul, that the life is recognizable in its expression, that form ever follows function. This is the law.”

American Architect Louis Sullivan (1896)

DOES FORM FOLLOW FUNCTION? So let’s get back to quality urban design. Quality planning certainly helps make it easier and poor planning makes for an urban design nightmare. Quality urban design is people centric, the spaces only work if the activities within them work, regardless of how they look. Great urban design can be achieved in both shabby, busy, incongruous, old neighbourhoods as well as in sophisticated, modern, newly created towns and cities.

It responds to the existing condition and makes places easy to access, safe, vibrant, diverse and meaningful to people. The design or interventions to such places often need to be restrained, unnoticed, flexible and responsive to the complex interactivities being undertaken, identifying areas with opportunity for positive change as well as those needing careful protection. They are often not something that can be drawn, but need programs and initiatives that encourage stakeholder motivation and economic transformation.

They need to respond to both an unknown future and a past history. The form that those interventions take are not aesthetic. They are not derived from making pretty pictures on the wall that flatter the eye and conceal the substance. There are many variables to the equations and always a lot of unknowns. As a colleague mentioned to me this week, “it’s not rocket science, it’s more difficult”.

REVIEW TIME So my daughter asked me what I thought of “our” new park at the bottom of our garden. Everyone said how beautiful it was, but I wanted to somehow assess it for success in urban design terms. Does it really work or is it just another pretty picture? I decided to assess the promenade park based on a few relevant principles: -

1. Neighbourhood Connectivity In order to widen waterfront areas next to private residential areas and facilitate park continuity, the promenade park has been built out from the existing edge, much of it on pontoon over water. Local roads and access paths have been given connections with the new areas that are adjacent, however the park does not attempt to reach beyond the adjacent neighbourhood land and link across the parallel 4 lane distributor road to other neighbourhoods, green space or metro stops.

Congestion and conflict between pedestrians, bikes and cars at the nearby controlled junctions is heightened. The park “attracts” visitors to come from beyond the neighbourhood, but then doesn’t help them get there, just displaces problems to nearby areas, whist once again new car parking encourages journeys from afar and then leads to local congestion on streets.

2. Safety Whoops, this is a bit of a frightener. It’s a new park, and there are some teething issues, but the layout seems to

Warning strips required! The high-speed cycle track conflicts with the play area entry.

Shared surfaces are great, but they need to be planned to be safe.

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specifically encourage speeding with long, straight bike lanes between children’s play and residential exits. Residents are already unhappy that they can’t go out of their gate without walking straight into cyclists whilst children are at huge risk. There is no grade segregation between cyclists and park users, which makes for an attractive shared surface but gives no clarity to users whilst the colours of all surfaces are in grey tones, so its really hard to see steps. Nice curvy shapes would have looked great on the drawings but the blind corners are scary for cyclists and pedestrians. This is an accident waiting to happen.

3. InclusivenessFor those with some visual impairment the park will prove a huge obstacle. Steps and level changes are hard to see even for those with 20/20 eyesight. There are no colour or tone changes, no warning strips, no identifiable difference between cycle tracks and pedestrian routes and lots of low overhanging structures to bump into.

To have no cars is great, but then banning bikes in a new park which has been built with bike lanes is beyond strange. Then we see the problem. The bike lanes mean the park isn’t safe, so the park management have had to put “bike patrollers” at entrances and focal points to keep bikes out during weekends and public holidays. The black uniformed “wardens” also make sure bikes don’t stray off the tracks at other times, so you can’t actually stop and take in the view from the promenade or cycle to the play areas with your kids without leaving your bike somewhere else. There are also no designated bike parking areas, despite the plethora of sharebikes dominating the streets of the city. 4. Sense of Place

Shenzhen is a new city, yet the park is over 18kms long and the new section integrates some of the oldest communities and port activities in the area. These include the old harbour with its fishing industry, the former oil and gas depot and the first 5 star hotel in China. These distinctive neighbourhoods have a clear and meaningful past, influencing the collective memory of the local communities. Yet the park gives no reference to these distinctive areas. It has the same design solutions across the full length. 5kms of sameness, however nice it might look, there is no sense of passing through distinctive areas, no touchpoints to history no sense of place. The new has obliterated and turned its back on the old.

Watch that step? Generic design disregards the special character of the fishing harbour.

Panic measures. The park is a lovely, pretty place for all ages with ramps and barrier free access. But it’s been designed to encourage express biking through the middle and in doing so created its own problems. The need for a heavy-handed management solution is a design disaster.

A PRETTY PICTURE It surely can’t be possible, but it’s almost as if “our new park” were just designed as a picture of pretty patterns on a sheet of white paper, by people who never even visited. It turns out it’s not our park after all. We were not invited to hold discussion sessions to suggest what might work best for our community. We are not allowed to use it for cycling to our kid’s activities on the weekend nor can we use it to connect safely to the metro. We dare not tread outside the gate for fear of being knocked down, banging our head or tripping up. Moreover, we can’t celebrate the history and distinctive character of the place we live. It’s been rolled up and replaced by a piece of everywhereness, of international blandness of meaningless form dictating its very function.

Photo credit: Barry Wilson Project Initiatives

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A registered landscape architect (RLA) has exclusive responsibility and privilege to carry out Self-Certificate of Compliance (SCC) on completed landscape works and tree works under relevant government practice notes. SCC operates on the major principle that the government entrusts professional landscape architects to act impartially to carry out necessary onsite checking and verification against submissions approved by the government. The purpose of this “SCC Best Series” is to encourage RLAs to deliver highest quality of SCC services.

Soil Depth for Proposed TreesLAI, Sai-hong Former Chairman of LARB

SCC Best Practice Series #2

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roots of a tree are often found in the upper few hundred millimetres of soil, structural roots are found deeper. A minimum of 1.2m soil depth for a tree has mostly to do with providing the root system sufficient soil weight at sufficient depth (the distance from a pivot point) to counteract turning moment imposed onto the tree crown by wind, especially by typhoons. Deeper soil has greater friction or anti-shearing property to hold

Although BD’s PNAP APP-152 only “recommends” 1.2m for trees, BD/ LandsD/ PlanD JPN3 and LandsD LAO PN 7/2007 both explicitly require trees to be planted with a minimum soil depth of 1.2m excluding drainage layer. This has great significance in Hong Kong, as many trees in private building projects need to be planted over structures such as podiums or basements. While fibrous, water-absorbing, nutrient-absorbing

the root system better in place. Deeper soil also provides upper soil buffers of water, nutrients and heat. A minimum of 1.2m soil depth for trees is a blanket, non-negotiable minimum standard that a RLA must uphold during his/ her SCC. A RLA should never consider in his or her SCC shallower soil depth as a “minor variation” to the approved.

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There is currently no requirement that a developer must appoint a RLA to follow through a project like an Authorized Person (AP) under Buildings Ordinance. Until our profession is further developed to be assigned with similar professional responsibility as APs, we must accept that a RLA may be commissioned to carry out a SCC for a private building project only when the site is completed or nearly completed. So, how should a RLA check the soil depth of a planter when trees and shrubs have already been planted on top? A RLA should start off by checking all relevant drawings approved under Building Ordinances and, if any, under lease. Building plans and structural plans by the project’s AP/RSE are the key. Wherever an approved landscape master plan or compensatory planting plan indicate a tree, the approved building plans and structural plans should indicate at the same location at least 1.2m deep soil or depth allowance excluding drainage. If discrepancies are found, the RLA should refer them back to the AP for resolution before continuing the SCC, even if the discrepancies may involve amendment submissions or abortive site works.

Although an AP cannot carry out a SCC on landscape works or tree works, the RLA SCC system is actually a part of a bigger system, of which an AP has leading role both under Buildings Ordinance and under lease. Under normal circumstances, a RLA should become deem-satisfied with the soil depth aspect if ALL of the followings have been met:

It is important to understand that a RLA is never “independent” in carrying out the SCC and must work closely with the AP. In many aspects, a RLA reconfirms and keeps records of what has already been covered by the AP, by other professionals, and by other specialists such as children play equipment contractors. Nevertheless, if overwhelming evidence or reasonable doubt exists, a RLA should use his or her professional judgement to consider a revisit. A RLA may check photo records or request an opening-up onsite, even though there may be implications to the issued OP and to the overall programme. A RLA should agree with his or her client of such possible arrangement before accepting the SCC job.

EPILOGUE

Some of you may think minimum planter width is equally important. Yes, it is. That is why GBP and LMP/ CPP are supposed to tally with each other and to show the same planter shape and planter layout. A 0.2m wide planter drawn on GBP may be approvable, but a 0.2m wide planter for trees drawn on LMP/ CPP is not. The AP will need to amend the approved GBP to match tree needs. No planter for trees can be too wide; a tree under favourable conditions will exploit its full genetic potential to maximize its size. That is why the government requires you to indicate tree species and sizes in your LMP/ CPP submission(s).

If the government approves your submission(s), it means they also approve the planters drawn on your LMP/ CPP. It is very difficult but not impossible to set a standard of minimum planter width. HKILA is recommended to further study the matter. To add more complication to the already-complicated matter, other than quantity, soil quality is important too. The physical properties of soil like density and drainage characteristics will affect load over a structure. The last thing you want is every plant grows beautifully but a roof collapses.

(1) The RLA has checked all relevant drawings approved by the authorities and find no discrepancy among them;

(2) The RLA has checked onsite that the shape or the visible portions of all planters, and find no discrepancy between the site and all relevant drawings approved by the authorities;

(3) An Occupation Permit (OP) has already been issued, and the AP confirms that relevant building works enabling landscape works/ tree work have been satisfactorily completed onsite in accordance with the lease.

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China Astronauts and Construction Industry Young Professionals ConferenceMaj. Gen. Jing Haipeng and Col. Chen Dong, both astronauts of the Shenzhou 11 Spaceflight Mission, visited Hong Kong on 29 June 2017 and shared their experience of their spaceflight mission and their paths to become astronauts to young professional members in the construction industry. The speeches were very inspirational and motivational for young professionals in their career advancement. Our F&E Chairperson, Mr Charles Kuo was the MC of the event.

Meeting with Transport Department on Hong Kong’s WalkabilitySubsequent to the Institute's letter addressed to THB on 5 July 2017, HKILA Council Members (Tak Wong, Simon Ng, Iris Hoi) met with the new Task Force/Walkability established in the Transport Department specifically to address Hong Kong’s walkability in the evening of 10 August. We provided landscape advice and recommendations on pedestrianisation and walkability, such as, asking the engineers to consider many issues pertaining to changing the mindset of putting pedestrians over cars, and getting consensus/collaboration with all related departments to ensure the ‘people over cars’ urban corridors design is enforced systematically throughout Hong Kong and not just in pilot areas. We even asked them to have more than just engineers to help with the design, but include multi-disciplinary professionals including landscape architects and architects. It was a very positive meeting and we hope beneficial results will come of these discussions. The Programme Manager (Walkability), Ir. Kevin F.M. Luk, promised to write back to us with a formal reply. We will let you know when we hear more.

NEWS AND ACTIVITIES

HKILA CPD Talks for Young Professionals Dr Lu of HKU Division of landscape architecture (left) and Benni Pong of Architectural Services Department (right), both alumni of Harvard GSD, talked to YLAG and HKILA on 14 July 2017 on interstitial spaces in Hong Kong and the road landscape of Kazakhstan, and career path respectively. The talk was well received by our young members and was very inspiring.

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Education Committee: AccreditationThe Education Committee is pleased to announced that the HKU MLA programme has received accreditation renewal following our June visit. The MLA accreditation is effective for five years so their next accreditation should be in 2022. Meanwhile they are required to provide the HKILA with a self-evaluation report two years from now, in 2019.

Technological and Higher Education Institute of Hong Kong (THEi) has also submitted their landscape programme for accreditation. Evaluation is still in progress and results of the accreditation will be announced when result is confirmed.

The HKILA has rolled out a new Accreditation Policy 2017. This replaces the 2012 Accreditation Policy with immediate effect. The 2017 policy can be downloaded from the HKILA website: http://www.hkila.com/file/news-pdf449.pdf

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17 November 2017: HKILA Annual Dinner 2017Let's toast to friendship and success. All the laughter, cheering and charming smile the HKILA annual dinner brings on this special day! Dear friends, please join us at The Grand Stage Western Market on November 17th, enjoy the fun and share the joy!

For details please visit http://www.hkila.com/committee.php#event402

UPCOMINGEVENTS

12 September 2017: CPD Talk on BEAM Neighbourhood An introduction to the BEAM Plus sustainability assessment tools with focus on the new BEAM Plus Neighbourhood tool which offers potential for greater contributions from landscape architects.

Speaker: Alexander (Sandy) M DuggieTime: 7:00-9:00 p.m.Location: Caritas Community & Higher Education Service, 14/F, On Lok Yuen Building, 25-27A Des Voeux Road Central, Hong Kong

For details and registration please visit: http://www.hkila.com/cpd.php

24 October 2017: CPD Talk on Engineering Conservation: Upstreaming landscape design and sustainable construction in linear infrastructure planning Regional corridors propelled by China’s 2013 Belt and Road Initiative are set to connect Eurasian economic centers through some of the last frontiers of Central, South and Southeast Asia. These frontiers are typically the domain of multilateral development banks and international environmental NGOs. This talk argues that design-level considerations, from site-specific wildlife mitigation strategies to decisions on slope engineering technologies, should drive or at least have a major upfront role in sustainable infrastructure planning.

Speaker: Ashley Scott KellyTime: 7:00-9:00 p.m.Location: Caritas Community & Higher Education Service, 14/F, On Lok Yuen Building, 25-27A Des Voeux Road Central, Hong Kong

For details and registration please visit: http://www.hkila.com/cpd.php

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22 September 2017: YLAG Happy Hour get-togetherWe are pleased to announce that the Young Landscape Architects’ Group’s will be hosting a Happy Hour get-together for all young members (anyone with less than 10 years of membership after graduation). This is an opportunity to connect with students, graduates, seniors and your landscape peers. Please join us to support our group and even socialize over a beverage, details are:

Time: 6.30pm to 8pmLocation: Tai Lung Fung bar, 5-9 Hing Wan St, Wan ChaiFee: Free first drink (first 20 people)

Hope to see you there!

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1617791964951751/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/BYtQ-IQln_C/

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G413 YU Ka Long Aaron 余嘉朗

G407 TSANG Suet Ming 曾雪明

G408 CHU Shih Jen 朱世人

G409 LAW Lok Yung 羅樂榕

G410 TANG, Dorothy Shun Wai 鄧信惠

G411 TONG Nga Wai 唐雅慧

G412 LAM Tsz Tung 林芷彤

A034 KUNG Yick Ho Alvin 龔翊豪

S261 GAN Zi Xuan 甘子軒

S262 WONG Kit Man Kitty 王潔雯

S263 陳浩賢

S264 陳健威

S265 陳芷敏

S266 趙翠霞

S267 蔡芷睿

S268 鍾影怡

S269 方鑫泳

S270 何卓賢

S271 林俊灝

S272 劉肇霆

S273 梁健偉

S274 梁宝粢

S275 梁燕彤

S276 李滙朗

S277 廖庭

S278 倪家聰

S279 史佩霖

S280 鄧志榮

New Affiliate Member

New Student Member

LIU Ting

NGAI Ka Chung

SZE Pui Lam

TANG Chi Wing

Change from Student to Associate Member

New Associate Member

LI Wui Long

CHAN Ho Yin

CHAN Kin Wai

HO Cheuk Yin

LAM Chun Ho

LAU Shiu Ting Ritz

LEUNG Kin Wai

LEUNG Po Chi

LEUNG Yin Tung

CHAN Tsz Man

CHIU Chui Ha

CHOI Tsz Yui Kevin

CHUNG Ying Yee

FANG Xinyong

Change of Membership and New Membersfrom 1 January 2017 to 31 July 2017

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S281 唐蘊怡

S282 温嘉琳

S283 黃森平

S284 楊玉華

S285 余欣樺

S286 CHANG Leung Kong 張良江

S287 李玉寒

S288 QIU Ying Yu 仇英宇

S289 SU Shan Shan 蘇珊珊

S290 WONG Wing Yin 黃詠妍

S291 WU Shen Yan 黃珅晏

S292 Zhuang Zi Kai 庄子凱

S293 李穎珊

S294 司徒育倩

S295 張慧心

S296 梁悅澄

S297 林銳銘

S298 鄺健銘

S299 梁順心

S300 文警隆

S301 李漢謙

S302 湯詠詩

S303 LUK Chi Chung 陸志聰

S304 CHAN Ho Man 陳灝文

S305 WONG Wai Ki Karen 黃暐淇

S306 LAM Sui Yan 林萃恩

S307 LEUNG Wing Shan 梁詠珊

S308 CHAN Suen, Melody 陳璿

S309 CHENG Tsz Ching 鄭芷晴

S310 何樂澄

S311 吳浩銘

S312 李柏慧

TONG Wan Yi

YEUNG Yuk Wa

YU Yan Wa

LI Yu Han

WAN Pamela

WONG Sum Ping

LAM Yui Ming Justin

LEUNG Yuet Ching

CHEUNG Wai Sum

LEE Wing Shan Anna

SZETO Yuk Sin Cubie

KWONG Kin Ming

LI Bo Hui

NG Ho Ming Kenny

HO Lok Ching

TONG Wing Sze

LEE Hon Him

MAN King Lung

LEUNG Shun Sum

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S313 譚碧珊

S314 胡楚瑤

S315 謝泳兒

S316 徐敏琳

S317 WONG Yee King 王绮琼

S318 CHIU Ming Hung 蕭銘鴻

S319 WONG Wing 黃穎

S320 HO Shu Leung 何樹樑

S321 NG Chi Wai 吳子瑋

S322 CHEN Xu Bin 陳煦斌

S323 CHOW Hiu To 周曉淘

S024 陳鈞濤

S026 CHAN Tsz Ki Jacky 陳子騏

S031 何振華

S036 KWONG Kwan Ki 鄺筠淇

S037 LAM Ching Hang 林靖衡

S039 羅逸文

S063 何婉欣

S068 謝慧鈞

S071 楊俊彥

S073 CHAN Hor Yin 陳可賢

S081 李嘉熙

S100 CHOW Yik Hong 周奕康

S101 -

S102 何天進

S105 WU Wing Tung 胡泳彤

S106 凌子媛

S112 LAI Hin Wai 黎軒瑋

S114 李嘉瀅

S116 李梓琪

S131 李杰禮

S156 TIN Man Leong 田旻亮

TSE Wai Kwan

YEUNG Chun Yin

LI Gareth Gar Hey

DAGDAG Jireh Puasus

HO Tin Chun

LING Jessica Tsz Wun

LEE Ka Ying

LI Chi Ki

Reinstatement of Student Membership

HO Chun Wa

CHAN, Oliver

LAW Yat Man

HO Yuen Yan Michelle

LEE Kit Lai

TSE Weng I

TSUI Man Lam

WU Chor Yiu

TAM Pik Shan

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S161 YIM Wan Ting 嚴韻婷

S172 關嘉盈

S178 劉倩晴

S186 CHENG, Kwok Cheong 鄭國鏘

S187 LAI Chun Yin 黎雋彥

S188 林賜穎

S190 張銘心

S191 吳晞瑜

S204 YAN, Tsz Ching 甄梓晴

Otherland Limited

LAU Sin Ching

LAM Leo Che Wing

CHEUNG Ming Sum Alice

NG Hei Yu

New Registered Practice

KWAN Joanne Ka Ying

Council Members 2017-2018

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Position Name Email contact

President Mr. Tak Yip WONG [email protected]

Vice-President Mr. S.C. LO [email protected]

Vice-President Ms. Iris HOI [email protected]

Honorary Secretary Mr. Yin-Lun CHAN [email protected]

Honorary Treasurer Ms. Yee-Man HUNG [email protected]

Education Ms. Iris HOI [email protected]

Practice Mr. Benni PONG [email protected]

Public Affairs Mr. Patrick LAU [email protected]

Publication Mr. Augustine LAM [email protected]

Registration Mr. Grant LIU [email protected]

Functions and Events Mr. Charles KUO [email protected]

Council Member Ms. Kathy NG [email protected]

Council Member Mr. Isaac SO [email protected]

Council Member Mr. Simon NG [email protected]

Council of Fellows (Convener) Mr. Evans IU [email protected]

CPD Committee Ms. Connie CHEUNG [email protected]

Webmaster Mr. Augustine LAM [email protected]

YLAG Mr. Keith Huang [email protected]

Secretariat Ms. Elsie LAW [email protected]

Secretariat Ms. Jennifer LI [email protected]