Bulletin No. 2, 2014

News in Brief  39  Fine Arts Graduates Recognized for Achievements A number of graduates from the Department of Fine Arts were bestowed accolades in art for their remarkable achievements. Mr. Wong Sau-ping Adam (left), fine arts graduate, was awarded the Best New Director in the Hong Kong Film Awards with his film The Way We Dance . He also won t h e B e s t A r t i s t ( F i l m ) i n the Hong Kong Arts Development Awards 2013 organized by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council. Other fine arts graduates honoured were Mr. Lam Tung-pang (right) (Best Artist: Visual Arts) and Ms. Au Hoi-lam (bottom right) (Award for Young Artist: Visual Arts). Mr. Siu Wai-hang, graduate of the Master of Fine Arts programme, won the WYNG Masters Award with his photo series ‘The Roadsider’, which features pictures of roadside plants. With the theme ‘Air’, the competition was aimed at raising public awareness of social issues through photography. Architecture Alumna Honoured for Innovative Design The ‘Art Community’:  Revitalization Project at Mallory Street/ Burrows Street, Wan Chai (currently named ‘Comix Home Base’), of which architecture alumna Ms. Karen Kiang was in charge as an architect of Aedas Ltd., received a number of prestigious awards, including the HKIA Medal of the Year of Hong Kong, and Special Architectural Award—Heritage and Adaptive Re- use of the HKIA Annual Awards 2013, as well as the Merit Award of Hong Kong Building (Renovation/Revitalization) Category of Quality Building Award 2014. The Centre of Architectural Heritage Research of School of Architecture, CUHK, is the heritage consultant of the project. The project is engaged in conserving a rare and intact Tong Lau (Chinese tenement building) ensemble (Grade 2 Historic Building) dating from the 1910s and revitalizing the old district of Wan Chai. By adopting best practices in conservation and innovative architectural designs, it has achieved the three key objectives of providing public open space within a tight urban site, preserving historic buildings and upgrading them to meet modern building regulations, and revitalizing them into a community-based arts and cultural centre. The winning project ‘Comix Home Base’ (Photo credit to Winson Ma)