Thus the city within

A palatial building rests by Rue de Bois Sauvage of Brussels, an intimate street located at the exact point where the lower historic city ends and upper bureaucratic city starts. The Palace remains like a parasite of a larger introverted structure that fortifies an entire urban block to hide the offices of the National Bank of Belgium. The...

The public interior: A Social condenser in Hong Kong

Since the transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong in 1997, the opportunities for political conversation are diminishing, censorship has been gradually imposed on different means of mass media. In the face of the gradual loss of freedoms, the people of Hong Kong have demonstrated an atmosphere of solidarity through social movements and physical...