PolyU Library
Journal Call no.NA17.H6H5
AuthorWang, Weijen.
Article TitleRational architecture, space of flows & the inter-placement of the edge : on the meaning of the new Hong Kong airport design / Wang Weijen.
Is Part OfHKIA journal ; no.20, 2nd quarter 1999, p.38-41, illus.
AbstractThe fresh completion of Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) at Chek Lap Kok in 1998 has lanuched yet another heated wave of discussion of airport design by architects, recalling the exchanges that took off with the completion of Chicago's O'Hare International Airport in the late eighties and Osaka's Kansai International Airport in the early nineties. Upon the completion of Helmet Jahn's United Airlines Terminal at O'Hare International Airport. The article features the assemblage, modulus, rationality, and neutrality, network society and cultural code. Space of flows and resistance, inter-placement of the centre and the edge of a city are discussed.