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BARRIE HO Architecture Interiors Head office: 19/F Wyndham Place, 44 Wyndham Street, Central, Hong Kong Tel: +852 2117 7662 Fax: +852 2117 7661 Email: pr@barrieho.com Website: www.barrieho.com
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Barrie Ho Founder and director
Project: Extension of Qian Hai Creative Youth E-Dream Factory (Phase 2) @ Qian Hai, Shenzhen, China Location: Shenzhen, China Client: Shenzhen Qian Hai Development and Investment Award won: Achievement Forum, Achievement Awards 2020 Project leader: Barrie Ho Design team: Angie Pi, Solomon Au, Rex Cheuk, Jason Xu, Lawrence Choi Completed: 2020 The architectural language of the Qian Hai Creative Youth Entrepreneurship Dream Factory designed in 2014-15 is based on the concept of non-traditional, non-conservative, transforming, non-conventional and non-typical design. The original concept to introduce black, white and grey as the major architectural colours provides a metaphor of a blank canvas for the youth to put colour on to enrich
Angie Pi Director of architecture
Have the events of 2020 affected or influenced your design philosophy? The notion of change is part of our philosophy; it has always spurred and encouraged our growth and gains in strength daily. We treasure change. It fosters opportunities and chance, and in fact sparked our new development in Australia, which is evolving rapidly and significantly.
Will design awards continue to be important to your business? ‘Encouragement’ and ‘courage’ are keys to success. Design awards are the fundamental expression of recognition; encouraging, giving courage to and even enforcing our core value of design perfection. Design is never a business — design is an attitude. Our vision, mission and passion shall prevail.
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their own lives. It also expressed the notion that while the Qian Hai Authority would provide essential resources, the youth would have to accomplish their dreams by way of their own hard work and wisdom. The new extension for Qian Hai Creative Youth Entrepreneurship Dream Factory is an attempt to redefine the new needs of youth entrepreneurship in diverse and holistic ways. A brand new square is introduced onto the original path of the original plan, which was originally defined as the Backyard Garden, thereby creating a new main entrance for the development. Green architecture and environmentally sensitive elements are introduced to the development, taking a holistic approach. The extension includes the Institutional Block, while the other side of the new youth square provides an advanced level Accelerator Block housing new laboratories and research centres.
