The Raja Luxe Showroom in Tsim Tsui,designed&image by Mass Operations 

Mass Operations, one of Hong Kong's newest architectural practices, was founded by 31-year-old Viviano Villarreal Bueron, a former disciple of Rem Koolhaas. Born and raised in Monterrey, Mexico, Villarreal has worked for Koolhaas' Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) on projects such as the Edouard Malingue Gallery, in Central, the Shenzhen Stock Exchange and the Taipei Performing Arts Centre.

How did you become interested in architecture? "I loved Lego. When I was six years old, I couldn't wait to get back to work on this little hotel I was doing after school. When I realised it had been systematically dismantled and put away, I threw a massive tantrum, to the point that I blew a blood vessel in my gums. After that, my parents told me, 'Yeah, you're going to be an architect.'"

Were your parents architects? "My father did two semesters of architecture. I didn't find out until I was at architecture school. He backed out of it because he got a full scholarship in the United States to play on the golf team at Texas A&M University. They didn't teach architecture, so he changed to business.".......Continue Reading

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