Hong Kong architect Yip Chun-hang will give a lecture about his company LAAB and his past projects Sunday in Shekou. Yip is the architectural director of LAAB and a registered architect with over a decade of architectural design and project management experience. An alumni of the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Hong Kong, Yip represented Hong Kong at the Venice Biennale of Architecture and was honored with the HKIA Young Architect Award. Besides architecture, he is also a plant enthusiast and seeks to integrate sustainability into projects at LAAB. He has lectured architecture at City University of Hong Kong and Hong Kong Design Institute and presented at various architecture seminars. LAAB, a Hong Kong-based studio, established its identity through a diversity of projects from architecture and public space to retail concept, interactive art and transformable residences. LAAB’s designs embody sensibility, inventiveness, and a subtle sense of humor. With commitment to innovation and community, the team has been recognized by the Japan Good Design Award Best 100 list, Design for Asia awards, Perspective Awards and German iF Design Awards. At the lecture, Yip will also talk about his “Kaleidome” art installation, which is being exhibited at Design Society. “Kaleidome” employs the unique medium of light-and-shadow interplay, creating constantly-changing sights that captivate the souls of urban strollers. In this public art installation, viewers are also the creators. Together, they can make various compositions of color-tinted reflections that transform the empty plaza into a flourishing garden. “Kaleidome” is composed of 242 polyhedral cells of polished stainless steel mirrors. Each reflective cell is a small window that frames the environment and multiplies the vista. Like a kaleidoscope, it shuffles the images of rivers, trees, buildings, passersby and flowers through the air, altering the mundane concrete plaza into a dynamic scene. Time: 7-8:30 p.m., April 8 Venue: Learning Space, 2/F, Design Society|Sea World Culture and Arts Center, 1187 Wanghai Road, Shekou, Nanshan District (南山区蛇口望海路1187号设计互联|海上世界文化艺术中心二楼公共教育空间) Metro: Line 2 to Sea World Station (海上世界站), Exit A(SD News) | 