Two vastly different projects in Hong Kong, one looking to the AI-driven architecture of the future, the other to the human stories of the past, are constructing different narratives of the city.
At the Hong Kong section of the 2025 Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (UABB) – sometimes known as the Hong Kong Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture – you can find prototypes of a new Hong Kong where AI grapples with the messy, difficult problems of how to bring communities together.
At the same time, a group of young researchers is trying to unlock and record a tapestry of personal stories from a now-dispersed community that once lived in one of the city’s oldest housing estates.
