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Celebrating the City’s Unsung Public Infrastructures

Collateral Event of the 19th International Architecture Exhibition —La Biennale di Venezia Exhibition kicks off with opening ceremony on 9 May 2025. Exhibition on public view in Venice from 10 May to 23 November 2025. 33 selected projects shining a light on the city’s often-overlooked public realm. Composite buildings, estate centres, market complexes, public housing, and more.

'Projecting Future Heritage: A Hong Kong Archive’ with ‘STAGING THE ARCHIVE’ by Architecture Land Initiative (Guillaume OtheninGirard, Kent Mundle from ALIN), BEAU Architects (Charlotte Lafont-Hugo, Gilles Vanderstocken) at Biennale Architettura 2025
Photographed by Oliver Yin Law

Hong Kong is a city far more fascinating—and with much more to teach the world—than its popular image suggests. This more fascinating Hong Kong is not found in its dazzling skyscrapers that overlook old junk boats crossing Victoria Harbour, in its open-air dai pai dong where global financiers in bespoke suits eat lunch at plastic tables, or in the nostalgic images of neon-drenched streets in Kowloon side of Hong Kong. Rather, this city is found in places the world does not often look: in the extraordinary but unsung public infrastructures that make Hong Kong the singular urban miracle that it is.

nside the warehouse spaces, visitors will discover academic research on the future heritage of Hong Kong
by opening sets of archival drawers / Photographed by Oliver Yin Law

‘Memory Eggency -- The Sonic Life of Urban Memory’ by SOSArchitecture Urban Design Studio invites visitors on a sensory journey
through Hong Kong’s auditory and visual landscapes, blending the ephemeral and the visceral into a meditation on cultural identity and
urban heritage / Photographed by Oliver Yin Law

 "Projecting Future Heritage: A Hong Kong Archive", Hong Kong’s official exhibition at the Biennale Architettura 2025, which opens today and will run until 23 November 2025, showcases these infrastructures that have shaped the city in the early postwar decades. The exhibition reveals how the city’s often-overlooked architectural and urban achievements have for decades fulfilled the pressing mandates that cities around the world now face, like combatting climate change, managing extreme density, and maintaining a cultural life for citizens in shared public spaces. Responding the theme of the Biennale Architettura 2025, curated by Carlo Ratti, ‘Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective’, the Hong Kong exhibition’s curators Fai Au, Ying Zhou, and Sunnie S.Y. Lau highlight the collective intelligens of Hong Kong’s public infrastructures that represents the city’s shifting paradigm.

The courtyard is framed by a bamboo installation which emphasises the simplicity and logic of the construction
process of Hong Kong’s ubiquitous bamboo scaffolding / Photographed by Oliver Yin Law
* ‘STAGING THE ARCHIVE’ by Architecture Land Initiative (Guillaume Othenin-Girard, Kent Mundle from ALIN), BEAU Architects (Charlotte Lafont-Hugo, Gilles Vanderstocken)

The 33 selected projects include composite buildings, estate centres, market complexes, and public housing—structures designed by local architects that are little documented, studied, or shared internationally. Many of these, including vernacular villages, are on the brink of redevelopment or already closed down, making them the sole specimens of Hong Kong’s future heritage.

The exhibition will return to Hong Kong in the fourth quarter of 2026. More information will be released on the official website, Facebook and Instagram pages in due course.