The charter city concept is a model of urban development seeking to start new cities within developing countries that foster rapid economic growth through the establishment of autonomous zones that operate outside the normal policies and regulations of a given nation.

To reach Hong Kong’s hip urban demographic Coke Zero is teaming up with Japanese streetwear brand Neighborhood Denim.

When viewing architect Gary Chang’s Hong Kong dwelling in any of it’s stationary modes, it looks like an ordinary modern studio apartment. But hidden behind the surface of the current room is a whole house worth of spaces. Compressed into a mere 344 square feet, Chang’s “domestic transformer” living space holds 24 possible configurations. Move a wall, pull out a table and the room’s now a kitchen – or pull out the hidden Murphy bed, and it’s a bedroom. Sliding wall units and fold down furniture come together in various formations to create a kitchen, library, laundry room, dressing [...]

Last month we talked about  branded pop up stores in the US – and now we’re turning our attention to how the concept has taken on a creative manifestation in China. As opposed to a large brand setting up a pop-up store, dysemevas is a design boutique run by Dee Poon that sells clothing, accessories, jewelry and tableware by China-based designers.  Set up in Hong Kong for 6 weeks, the store went through a few transformations during the six weeks including changing from a casual T-shirt and jeans store to a more formal store featuring designer suits and jewelry.
Dee Poon [...]