Berlin is Germany's largest city and one of the most influential centers in European culture while Shanghai, the economic capital of the middle kingdom, is building skyscrapers faster than at the speed of sound. So wh...

WZL “I, CHINA” EXHIBITION

2006.7.5　 Text: Soh Wee Ling

It seemed like any other Thursday night at this stretch of shophouses along Guangdong Road except that a continuous stream of people had been entering and coming out of a narrow and dimly-lit staircase all night long....

THE ANTIDOTE

2005.9.4　 Text: Wong Joon Ian

For far too long, Shanghai has been plagued by loud, over-advertised and generally cheesy parties. From Thursday nights at Pegasus, the city's biggest hip hop night, to the overflowing taverns (complete with wenches) ...

MVRDV KM3: PROPOSALS FOR CHINESE CITIES

2005.8.4　 Text: Wong Joon Ian

What can one of Europe's smallest countries teach one of the world's largest about designing urban centres? Quite a bit, if you are to take Dutch architecture firm MVRDV's theses on Chinese cities seriously. MVDRV,...

COMMUNICATE: INDEPENDENT BRITISH GRAPHIC DESIGN SINCE THE SIXTIES

2005.6.4　 Text: Wong Joon Ian

Communicate, a survey of the last 40 years of independent British graphic design that debuted at London's Barbican last year, is currently winding its way through China, with the help of - who else? - the British Coun...

GET IT LOUDER 2005

2005.6.2　 Text: Samantha Culp

For months now, the Chinese design community has been thrumming with excitement about "Get It Louder." Described by its curators as a "a visual noise made by young designers and artists around the globe", this event i...