Mr. Chris Law

Chris Law is an acknowledged leading practitioner on sustainable urbanism and neighbourhood development. Chris founded the Oval Partnership with Patrick Bruce in 1992, and is a director of its subsidiary, the sustainable and smart city action research group INTEGER that develops many ground-breaking initiatives in sustainable development, notably the world’s first in the use of structural laminated bamboo in multi-storey buildings. Under his leadership the Oval Partnership developed the Open City design principle, manifested in the award-winning Sanlitun Taikoo Li Beijing and Taikoo Li Chengdu projects. He is member of a number of public sector and third sector committees in Hong Kong including the Urban Design Advisory Group of the Development Bureau and the Public Private partnership Committee of the West Kowloon Cultural District. He is a director of the UNESCO award-winning heritage conservation and community participatory Viva Blue House development in Hong Kong, and chairman of the Community Development Committee of the St James' Settlement. He is the chief curator and founder of the public space organisation Very Hong Kong and its community land initiative Collaborate Hong Kong. A graduate of Stonyhurst College and the Bartlett School of Architecture UCL, Chris' projects have received awards from the Royal Institute of British Architects, The Royal Academy of Arts, The Hong Kong Institute of Architects, The Hong Kong Institute of Planners, The Hong Kong Institute of Urban Design, Urban Land Institute and World Architecture Festival. He was made an honorary member of the American Institute of Architects for his contribution to Architecture. He is a Justice of the Peace of the Hong Kong SAR.