PEOPLE’S GOVERNMENT HILL THE SPATIAL APPEARANCE OF CITIZENSHIP Master Year 2 Thesis 2012-2013 Instructor: Professor HO Puay Peng Professfor Li, Shiqiao Candidate: Rachel Lee, Shuk Nga
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GOVERNMENT HILL NOT FOR SALE To reclaim people’s right to the city: to change life and society, it is vital to rebuild the significance of citvitas and public life. The spatial realization of political public space would be both the real space and ideology landscape for exercizing citizenship, the presence of which makes people real citizens. The displacement of the Central Government Office, once the power concentration, provides the city and its people an opportunity to make a radical spatial change citywide. NEW PEOPLE’S HUB Instead of having another merga mall and class A office tower in central, the replacement of the west wing of the former Central Government Office is a new social hub for the people. Standing in front of the Government House, next to the money AX icons like HSBC and CKC, the site is destined IS O The new complex aims to support the to be political. FG OV substainable development of the social and political ER NMbackstage post supporting culture. It takes up the E all kinds of social events.NItT offer HIL operation and L administration space, performance space, as well as archive and storage space for the social actors. Public space is another comcern for the project. It tries to create various political public grounds on different levels for parties and individuals, allows contrasting views and voices to happen in a parallel manners and bebefits from each other.
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