Prince's plans for Feng Shui Chinatown
By David Doyle

Prince Charles has proposed using Feng Shui to make London’s Chinatown more authentically Oriental. In a set of design proposals released today, the Prince’s Foundation for the Built Environment said Feng Shui, the ancient art of designing and arranging buildings to ensure a favourable flow of energy, and Chinese mythology will play a major role in Chinatown’s designs.
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When feng shui holds sway
By Amanda Davey 

FOR the uninitiated, feng shui remains a bit of a mystery and many tend to regard this ancient Chinese philosophy, with its enticing promises of harmony and balance, with scepticism that ranges from ignorance to derision and disbelief.

But to its practitioners and increasing numbers of followers, it’s gospel.

Traditionally, feng shui (pronounced fong shway) is used to help choose a place to live and find an appropriate burial site. But to ensure their fair share of health, wealth and harmony, adherents nowadays tend to confine their practices to a bit of furniture redistribution and foliage realignment to achieve the positive energy, or Qi (pronounced chee).
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Feng Shui and Apartment Living
By Jane Dempster-Smith

Feng Shui for apartments and high rise accommodation are dealt with slightly differently to Feng Shui for houses. 

In apartments, apart from the external landforms and the other apartment buildings if you are in a complex, we need to assess the entrance to the building, the lifts to each floor, where your apartment is in relation to the lift and which floor you are living on.  The location of your main door, kitchen and bedrooms are important.  We are limited if any renovations or alterations are required to improve the Feng Shui.

For a house we concentrate on the external landforms, the main door, kitchen and bedrooms but it is easier to make those alterations or renovations.

In a Feng Shui analysis for an apartment or a high rise building it can be quite difficult today with modern architecture to judge the facing of the building.  Some apartment blocks I have seen, seem to have several facings, or no facing at all such as ones that are completely round.  Your main door in most cases of apartment living is not considered the facing of the building. Why is the facing so important?  The facing of the building will determine the direction and what type of Qi the building is receiving. READ THE FULL ARTICLE >>

Rare‚ ancient practice could benefit business
By Samantha Van

Old Chinese coins are feng shui symbols of wealth.

Retailers and suppliers are always looking for new ways to improve their profitability and abundance‚ but they may be doing it the hard way. Feng shui‚ an ancient Chinese practice which could benefit many businesses has been overlooked by executives.

Only 7% of local offices have been arranged using the practices of feng shui‚ according to a survey released last year by Australian recruitment and human resources firm Talent2.

Yet 40% of the 1‚960 respondents said that they believe in the benefits of the ancient art of placement and arrangement of space to attract positive energy. READ THE FULL ARTICLE >>