Designed by CL3 Architecture Ltd, "Urban Cocoon." — the largest pavilion at the Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture was opened on February 15, 2012. The current edition's theme is "Tri-Ciprocal Cities: The Time, The Place, The People." The event continues until April 23 at the Hong Kong Heritage Discovery Center, Kowloon Park, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong. For more information: http://hkszbiennale.org
     "If architectural biennales are to incubate new ideas in architecture and urbanism, then our Urban Cocoon at the Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism \ Architecture is where this incubation takes place. Like a cocoon, it is built on a found environment, like a leaf or a twig, and in this case, a Hong Kong-style bamboo scaffolding.
     The cocoon is totally temporary. It is there for two months until the ideas hatch, and the cocoon would have served its purpose -- to provide shelter from weather, and to protect its occupants from external harm. Its temporariness can be related to the current world crises, shelter for disaster-struck areas, or Occupy Wall Street! The enclosure of the cocoon is lightweight vinyl sheets on a bamboo-strip cage. It uses the bamboo opera-theatre structure as support, said William Lim, Managing Director of CL3 Architecture Ltd.
     Headquartered in Hong Kong with regional offices in Beijing and Shanghai, CL3 is an architecture and interior design studio in Asia, creating projects for hotel, hospitality, restaurants, retail, corporate, and art installation design.