2013年11月5日星期二

PolyU Innovation Tower Close to Completion




The 76-metre high Innovation Tower of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University was designed by Zaha Hadid, an Iraqi-British architect who, in 2004, became the first female winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize
"The fluid character of the Innovation Tower is generated through an intrinsic composition of its landscape, floor plates and louvers that dissolves the classic typology of the tower and the podium into an iconic seamless piece. These fluid internal and external courtyards create new public spaces of an intimate scale which complement the large open exhibition forums and outdoor recreational facilities to promote a diversity of civic spaces."
── Zaha Hadid

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2013年11月2日星期六

雲裳集 ── 火燒雲

今天的晚霞燒得很紅,是熱帶氣旋迫近時的傳統模樣。經已十一月,仍有熱帶氣旋迫近香港實屬少見,還要是颱風的級數,現在風眼位於香港東南偏南 280 公里。天文台預期該颱風會在今晚至明日早上於香港南面 250 至 300 公里處掠過。

熱帶氣旋迫近,黃昏時常現火燒雲,有說是因為熱帶氣旋外圍的下沈氣流令空氣中的污染物難以擴散,高濃度的懸浮粒子有效地將藍光散射所致。可是今天的風吹得相當盛,即使未普遍達致強風程度,在這等風勢下難道懸浮粒子空氣仍受困於下沈氣流沒被吹散?