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25th Anniversary Annual Dinner

The Institute’s 25th Anniversary Dinner was successfully held on (Friday) 29th November, 2013 at Harbour Grand Hong Kong, North Point which was attended and well received by over 300 guests, members, gov-ernment offi cials, leaders of professional disciplines and friends. The Guest of Honour for the event was Hon. K.S. Wong, Secretary for the Environment, HKSAR Government.

During the dinner, our founding member and the 1st President of the Institute, Mr. C.K. Wong recapped some of the memorable moments of the Institute over the last 25 years. Our current President, Mr. Tak Wong granted the latest batch of Fellow Membership to six members. Our Vice-president, Mr. S.C. Lo pre-sented the Institute’s Student Award of Excellence and scholarship to the 1st and 2nd year students of the MLA programme of University of Hong Kong, and Vice-president, Mr. Paul Chan awarded the fi rst prize of the Young Landscape Architect Group (YLAG)’s Logo Design Competition winner. Ms. Daphne Koon, Vice-chairperson of YLAG, also presented activities that YLAG had undertaken in the past year and will conduct in the coming year.

The Dinner was full of joy and a cheerful occasion for the participants to socialize and communicate. Many thanks to the Event Organizing Committee, which was led by Mr. Francis Chiu, for their great effort in organizing such a memorable event, and to all those who had supported the Institute’s 25th Anniversary Dinner in various ways. Looking forward to your continous support and seeing you again in the next An-nual Dinner!

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Photos of the 25th Annual Dinner, taken by Phillip Kwok Chin Toh


LANDSCAPEwww.hkila.com LANDS ADear Honorable K.S. WONG, JP, Distinguished Guests, Members, Ladies and Gentlemen,

It is my pleasure, on behalf of the Hong Kong Institute of Landscape Architects, to welcome you to join the Institute’s 25th Annual Dinner, and our great honour tonight to have Honorable K.S. WONG, JP, Secretary for the Environment of the HKSAR Gov’t, as the Guest of Honor for the event.

The Annual Dinner tonight will celebrate the Silver Anniversary of the Institute and would be a great opportunity for the participants from different fi elds to get together to socialize and exchange viewpoints on various issues of the landscape profession and related disciplines.

Taking the 25th Anniversary occasion, the Institute would conduct an overview of the development of landscape architecture in Hong Kong and to promote the profession to the general public by carrying out a series of activi-ties including special publications, lectures, tour to award winning projects, conferences, and itinerant exhibi-tions in these few months. For example, the Institute just organized a lecture on Zen and Japanese gardens by Professor Shunmyo Masuno in Poly U last night and conducted a site visit to One Kowloon development in this morning. We have recently obtained funding from the Government under the PSDAS for fi nancing our 25th An-niversary Project on the Development of the landscape architectural profession in Hong Kong and its position-ing in the region. The Organizing Committee of the Project will conduct an offi cial announcement and briefi ng to all members shortly.

Over the past quarter of a century, the Institute had gone through many major evolutions. Although I would not have enough time tonight to mention all those remarkable achievements of the Institute in the past twenty fi ve years, I would like to highlight the most signifi cant milestone that the Institute had reached in the history of landscape architectural profession in Hong Kong. It was the enactment of the Landscape Architects Registration Ordi-nance (LARO) in 1997. For other major events occurred in the landscape history of Hong Kong, you may refer to the Time Line in the Annual Dinner Brochure for further information.

With the enactment of the Ordinance, the use of titles of Landscape Architect and Registered Landscape Architect (RLA) is governed under the law. It would be an offence for a person whose is not a RLA and describe himself/herself as “landscape architect” or “registered landscape architect” or to use the initials “R.L.A.” after his/her name. Any person who commits the offence would be liable to a fi ne and imprisonment. As you may aware that not all the professionals in the building and construction industry could acquire the similar legal status. We should have great gratitude for all the hard works done by our progenitors in order to successfully complete the demanding legislative process of the Ordinance. Without their effort, landscape architects in Hong Kong would not have the statutory recognition.

We have the privilege and we also shoulder the obligation. Landscape architects are required to practise landscape architecture and provide their services at the highest level of professional standards and conduct for not to disgrace their title. In Hong Kong, there are currently about 120 numbers of Registered Landscape Architects out of 7 something million people. HKSAR Government, which retains about half of the R.L.A.s, is the biggest employer of landscape architects in local. Many of the remaining landscape architects practicing in the private sector of Hong Kong would also provide professional services and maintain offi ces in Mainland China. Therefore, there is a shortage of landscape architects in Hong Kong to serve the local citizens. Very often, members of the public will mention to me that they have diffi culties in retaining landscape architects to do the small jobs or minor works for them.

I am glad to see that the numbers of candidates sitting in the Institute’s annual Professional Practice Examination and subsequently becoming quali-fi ed landscape architects have noticeably increased in the recent years due to the increase in the graduates from the Master of Landscape Architec-ture Programme at the University of Hong Kong and from the accredited landscape architecture programmes of the overseas universities. The Institute has just held the written part of this year’s Professional Practice Exam in last week and there were about 60 PPE applicants this year.

Since the establishment of the Young Landscape Architect Group (YLAG) in August of last year, members of the YLAG have conducted talks to new students in the orientations of universities and educational institutions for introducing the Institute and the profession of landscape architecture. YLAG members also provided guidance to the new students to join the Institute. As a result, it is encouraging that the student membership of the Institute has signifi cantly increased due to the great effort of the YLAG.

The HKILA will continue the accreditation for Accredited Arboricultural Practitioners, co-organization of joint institute events with other professional institutes, and co-operation with the Government and statutory organizations in conducting various public functions. The continuous involvement of the Institute and our members in these activities strengthens the professional status of landscape architects, and more importantly conveys our profes-sional standpoints on landscape issues of the public concern to the society.

Although our membership is still small, many of our members are devoted and providing the concerted efforts to serve the Institute without remunera-tions. Sometimes, our members may even need to take leave from their own works and pay the transportation expenses themselves in order to carry out duties for the Institute. Because of these selfl ess devotions, that’s why the Institute could be able to maintain a healthy fi nancial situation even with very limited income and resources.

Finally, I would like to take this opportunity to express my heartfelt thanks to the Council members, committee members, past presidents, YLAG, Secretariat and all the members who had provided assistance and valuable advice to me in carrying out my duties. Without these contributions, it would not be possible for me to handle the tremendous workloads of the daily operation of the Institute and also not likely for the Institute to attain the sustainable development.

Thank you and I wish you all an enjoyable evening!

Tak WONG

President, HKILA

President’s Speech to the Annual Dinner



Fellows of the Institute (Some of the newly elected fellows: Gavin Coates, Evans Iu, Matthew Pryor, Jonathon Yung) join other Fellow members on stage

Milestones & Memories of the Profession by C.K. Wong

HKILA Vice-President, S.C. Lo presents the HKILA Student Awards of Excellence toRose Tan Peggy Xia Cathay Wong

Presidents

YLAG and friendsPresentation on YLAG Activities by Daphne Koon

HKILA Vice-President Paul Chan presents YLAG Logo Design Competition Presenta-tion Prize to Gap Chung

Guest of Honour, Secretary for the Environ-ment 環境局局長Wong Kam-sing, JP-黃錦星局長 and other guests



HKILA 25th Anniversary Seminar on Zen and Japanese Gardens - by Prof. Shunmyo Masuno 枡野俊明 from Japan on 28.11.2013

Lecture by Prof. Shumyo Masuno

Presentation of souvenir by HKILA President


Visit with Prof. Masuno to Nan Lian Garden at the Chi Lin Nunnery


A seminar focusing on oriental garden design was ar-ranged as one of the highlights of the HKILA 25th an-niversary celebrations. We were honoured to have Prof. Shunmyo Masuno 枡野俊明 come especially to Hong Kong to share his design philosophy, experience and insight in spiritual training on Zen and Japanese Garden Design. Prof. Masuno枡野俊明 is one of Japan’s leading landscape architects, and a key fi gure in modern Japa-nese rock garden art. He is a Zen Priest of the Kenko-ji Temple.

The seminar was conducted on 28 November 2013, at Jockey Club Innovation Tower, in Polytechnic University, in front of an audience of more than 200 and was followed by a book signing. A site visit for HKILA members was conducted with Prof. Masuno to his landscape project at the One Kowloon offi ce building on 29 November 2013

Generous sponsorship of the event by Glorious Sun Enterprises Limited allowed this educational programme become a successful event.

Dry Japanese garden for Berlin Marzahn Erholungspak

Garden at One Kowloon offi ce building


Prof. Shumyo Masuno

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Greening Website

Pictorial Guide for SG in Hong Kong Index

Pictorial Guide for SG in Hong Kong How to Use

Hong Kong is known to many as a place of skyscrapers, with extensive infrastruc-ture dominating the urban landscape. Its highly concentrated development and scarcity of land in the urban areas pose a great challenge in providing greenery in the built up areas of the city centre.

The Hong Kong Government has thus long been seeking opportunities for green-ing, by involving itself in the early planning and design stages of new develop-ments and urban renewal as well as promoting more integrated greening in build-ing works, for their environmental benefi ts as well as to enhance the aesthetic quality of the urban landscape of Hong Kong. As policy maker, the Greening and Landscape Offi ce (GLO)’s main objective is to promote the adoption of a holistic approach for developing a greener urban environment in Hong Kong. To this end, it has been proactively promoting innovative greening techniques, such as skyrise greening, in both the public and private sectors, so as to provide a quality and sus-tainable living environment to people in Hong Kong.

Skyrise greening encompasses all greening in buildings or other structures above the ground level, including green roofs and vertical greening. Though not new in Hong Kong, it represents an alternative to the conventional at-grade greening to optimise space for urban greenery. In general, skyrise greenery in Hong Kong takes the forms of sky gardens, podium gardens, and extensive green roofs. On the other hand, vertical greening is becoming more popular in recent years. It has been the established practice to promote roof greening and vertical greening in government buildings and facilities, along with other energy-saving measures, such as the installation of energy-effi cient lighting and appliances. As at July 2013, over 410 government buildings/facilities including public housing estates and schools, etc. have incorporated skyrise greenery such as green roofs and vertical greening. This fi gure is noted continuously rising and encouraging. The private sector has also been applying skyrise greenery to new and existing developments, including residences, hotels, offi ces, and so forth. There has also been a growing trend to make use of greenery for other functions, including that of educational and therapeutic purposes.

This pictorial guide serves as a resource reference, the fi rst of its kind with specifi c scope on plant resources for skyrise greenery in the local context. It aims tofa-cilitate proper plant selection and encourage the use of suitable plants based on ‘right species for the right place’ principle for skyrise greenery by designers and for public appreciation of plant resources in Hong Kong. The Guide with plant spe-cies sorted by plant types is presented in simple graphics with selected photos of exemplary skyrise greenery projects from both the public and private sectors for easy and handy reference. Apart from botanical information, typical applications of the plant species on skyrise greenery together with technical information and tips on soil depth and different types of skyrise greenery system, maintenance demand, seasonal changes and appraisal of special feature of plants are included in the Guide. The ultimate goal is to lower the technical thresholds in designing and implementing sustainable skyrise greening and promoting its wider adoption in Hong Kong.

An electronic version of this Pictorial Guide is now available in our Greening web-site and you are welcome to visit by clicking the link – www.greening.gov.hk for detailed information. We hope you will enjoy the reading and fi nd the information therein useful for your planning, design and maintenance of skyrise greenery pro-jects in future.

Greening and Landscape Offi ceGreening, Landscape and Tree Management SectionDevelopment BureauDecember 2013



Pictorial Guide for SG in Hong Kong Conifer

Pictorial Guide for SG in Hong Kong Succulent

Pictorial Guide for SG in Hong Kong Palm

Pictorial Guide for SG in Hong Kong Climber

Pictorial Guide for SG in Hong Kong Shrubs

Pictorial Guide for SG in Hong Kong Grass

Pictorial Guide for SG in Hong Kong Tree

Pictorial Guide for SG in Hong Kong Groundcover

Pictorial Guide for SG in Hong Kong Fern


LANDSCAPEwww.hkila.com LANDS ABe Our Greening Partner’s Campaign - Seminar on Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment

Tree and Landscape Map

The seminar was held on 16 December 2013 at Lecture Hall, Hong Kong Science Museum. The guest speakers, Mr Tak Wong and Mr Kevin Ng, from Planning Department, one of the Greening Partners, shared with the participants the background and requirement of conducting landscape and visual impact assessment under the Environmental Impact Assessment Ordinance. Information of past events and coming activities of the Campaign is available in the Greening website (www.greening.gov.hk). You are also welcome to join as a Greening Partner through on-line subscription to the Greening Partner Charter in the website.

Greening, Landscape and Tree Management Section of Development Bureau published a series of map booklets of publicly accessible landscaped and greened spaces in the 18 districts on 8 October 2012. The maps highlight green spaces, special trees and unique landscape designs within each district, and intended to promote visitation and help the public better understand, appreciate and enjoy the landscape and green heritage in the built-up areas of Hong Kong. The Tree and Landscape Map of the full series is available at the Greening website (www.greening.gov.hk ), and should be available as a smart phone app. in the near future.

Presentation by Wong Tak-yip and Kevin Ng Answers



This year seems to have been a busy one for the Practice Committee – but then, looking back over the previous Committee’s minutes, that seems to be the norm. Many of the issues being dealt with have been in the works for some time before, and will no doubt continue to move forward for some time to come.

We are not often given a great deal of time to respond to government proposals, and it is an unfortunate fact that we cannot formally respond to every item that comes our way. The Committee did, however, make a position statement on the strategic land supply policy. In particular we felt it important to caution the government against putting sea reclamation forward as the preferred method before other alternatives had been properly explored. Hong Kong’s natural coastlines are one of our most precious resources, and their loss cannot be undone.

Some time ago it became evident that there was a gap in the profession’s investigative and disciplinary procedures. While the LARO is very clear about the role of LARB in regulating the professional standards of RLAs, no such procedure is in place when a complaint is raised, not against an individual RLA, but against a registered practice under the HKILA. As a consequence, the Practice Committee has been studying the procedures used by other local Institutes as well as international practice with a view to drafting such a set of rules for the HKILA. This is a delicate and one which will require careful handling to ensure the interests of members, practices, clients and the public are protected.

Trees, as always, continue to be in the news. The Practice Committee in partnership with the Public Affairs Committee saw an article published in the press, expressing the profession’s views on the issues affecting street trees in the aftermath of the unfortunate fall of one of the ancient Banyans on Nathan Road in Tsim Sha Tsui, followed shortly thereafter by an article by Gavin Coates, RLA. It is hoped that this can be the start of our profession making a little more noise in the public realm, rather than allowing landscape issues in the news to be dominated by less qualifi ed commentators.

Still on the matter of trees, who hasn’t struggled with the confl icting requirements of clients and government in dealing with DEVB TC (W) 10/2013 or LAO PN 7/2007 Extensive consultation resulted in a paper outlining what members felt were major fl aws in the current procedure, in particular discrep-ancies between the process for private as opposed to public projects and the arbitrary compensatory planting requirement of compensatory planting of equivalent aggregate DBH. The latter in particular, although laudable in its aim of maintaining tree cover, has often resulted in poor designs that resemble tree nurseries more than they do functional landscapes. It is hoped that government will take our views into consideration as they deliberate the revision of both sets of guidelines, and HKILA Council is following up to keep the issue in view. (Updated-3/2006 already revised, we hope to meet LandsD before 7/2007 is revised accordingly)

Another ongoing review of government guidelines concerns the controversial matter of ‘greenery coverage’ as defi ned by BD PNAP APP-152 and DEVB TC (W) 3/2012, and as not defi ned by JPN-3. As well as discrepancies between the guidelines there is the issue that they fail to promote sus-tainable ‘greening’ by emphasising high-maintenance green walls over climbing plants and ground cover planting area over tree planting.

Finally, Practice Committee has been involved in stimulating a dialogue between HKILA and LARB regarding the outdated defi nition of ‘qualifi ed landscape architect’ in the AACSB Handbook. Although the membership of both bodies overlaps to a great degree, there are nevertheless some very different opinions on the matter. Practice Committee hopes that both bodies will arrive at an amicable resolution before offering their advice to ArchSD regarding the modernising of their defi nition. Public disagreement amongst the membership can only damage the profession as a whole.

All in all, interesting times!

Michael Thomas, Practice Committee (Chair)

Practice Makes Perfect


Practice Committee in action


PPE Exam Review Panel The HKILA Council’s comprehensive review of the current Professional Prac-tice Exam (PPE) is drawing to a close and the panel is now seeking members’ comments on the proposed changes to the format and procedures for the PPE. A briefi ng document was circulated to members on 4th Feb 2014. and was dis-cussed at the special briefi ng session on 10th February 2013. Members were invited to submit their comments to the panel via the HKILA Secretariat ([email protected]). It is hoped that the proposed changes can be implemented by June 2014, in time for the start of the next PPE cycle.

Yuan Lin ‘14 The next issue of Yuan Lin is planned to be published as an on-line journal in the Summer 2014. The provisional title is Planting Futures and the issue aims to develop a broad discourse on issues relating to planting within Hong Kong. We have a lot of it, but we do not discuss it critically. There is a predominance of ornamental planting, with less attention given to other forms such as planting for ecological restoration and enhancement, environmental control, landscape amenity, production etc.

Contributions are invited from either in the form of:o Articles containing views / reasoned arguments about planting in Hong Kong (1500-2500 words, with relevant images), o Reviews of published books, data, processes etc. and their impact on planting practice (500-1000 words)o Reports on completed projects, technical details, factual information about planting and related matters (500-1500 words, with relevant images)

Contributions should be topical, concise, informative, critical, but not promotion-al. Written contributions will be reviewed by the editorial team. If you are inter-ested in contributing something please contact the Publications Committee on [email protected] or [email protected]

Chorisia speciosa in full fl ower at Inspiration Lake


1) Strategy should not be at the expense of degrading or down-grading the living standard of citizens and quality of the external environment under the current HKPSG provisions.

2) Infi ll sites within the existing public housing estates will generate a lot of resentment from existing tenants, turning 2.5M public housing estate population against this government policy. The gain from the infi ll sites are small compar-ing to getting new sites from the government land, and the input and resources from professional, technical, and contractual sides are no less than a large site. Given today shortages in human (both professional, technical and labour) and land resources, the production targets are doubtful.

3) Government should concentrate their effort in securing new lands for large scale housing developments, or new town developments, including recla-mation in the long term. Many different comments from the public on securing new land for housing developments have been received, such as, to make use of the golf course and country park. When searching / securing new land for large scale housing developments, Government should consult relevant profes-sional institutes for expert advice in order to strike a balanced decision.

4) Government should consider the possibility of renting / buying land from Mainland China for public housing /HOS developments. For example, the Lok Ma Chau Loop.

HKILA Comments at the Joint Institute Forum on Long Term Housing Strategy



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HKILA SecretariatThe HKILA is delighted to welcome Elsie Law as the new HKILA Secretariat. Elsie has been a member of Hong Kong Institute of CPAs since 2001 and has held executive positions with fi nancial, company secretarial and administrative responsibilities in a number of industries, including with a landscape architectural fi rm for fi ve years. She has been the HKILA’s accountant since 2008.

Elsie replaces Jennifer Li who left the HKILA at the end of November after two and a half years of excellent service. Jennifer was well known to members for her effi ciency reliability and helpful attitude, in the daily operation of the Institute affairs. Her hard work and dedication during a time when the Institute’s member-ship has been rapidly expanding was greatly appreciated and we wish her all the best in the future.

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