If you visit Venice, Italy, this year and stumble upon a courtyard wrapped in a lattice of bamboo poles, you might think you’ve been transported to the streets of Hong Kong. But it isn’t a mirage – it’s the SAR’s official contribution to the Venice Biennale of Architecture. The installation stands out for its utilitarian…
A worker fell to his death at a construction site in Hong Kong on Tuesday, despite reportedly wearing a safety harness. The 62-year-old scaffolder was working on the fifth floor of a construction site on On Chuen Street, next to the Grace Industrial Building, in Fanling and fell sometime before 3pm. His colleagues found him…
Two men have been injured by a piece of bamboo that fell from scaffolding outside an industrial building in Hong Kong, with one left bleeding from the incident. Police said they were alerted shortly before 10am on Saturday about a man being hit on the forehead by a piece of bamboo that fell from scaffolding…
Two men have been injured by a bamboo stick that fell from scaffolding outside an industrial building in Hong Kong, with one left bleeding from the incident. Hong Kong police said they were alerted shortly before 10am on Saturday about a man being hit on the forehead by a bamboo stick that fell from scaffolding…
A construction worker survived a plunge from the seventh floor of a multi-storey car park in Hong Kong’s Kowloon on Saturday morning after landing on a truck filled with bamboo poles. Police received a report at 11.33am that a man had fallen onto a truck stacked with bamboo used for scaffolding outside the car park…
A construction worker survived a plunge from the seventh floor of a multi-storey car park in Hong Kong’s Kowloon on Saturday morning after landing on a truck filled with bamboo poles. Police received a report at 11.33am that a man had fallen onto a truck stacked with bamboo used for scaffolding outside the car park…
A worker has fallen to his death from a building while dismantling bamboo scaffolding in Hong Kong. The man, 44, was found unconscious on a concrete canopy at the 11-storey Tung Nam Factory Building in To Kwa Wan at around 2pm on Tuesday. His colleagues called emergency services. Firefighters used a hydraulic platform to get…
A worker has fallen to his death from a building while dismantling bamboo scaffolding in Hong Kong. The man, 44, was found unconscious on a concrete canopy at the 11-storey Tung Nam Factory Building in To Kwa Wan at about 2pm on Tuesday. His colleagues called emergency services. Firefighters used a hydraulic platform to get…