Hong Kong's densely packed high-rises captured from above in drone footage from Mariana Bisti.

The soaring skyscrapers, manicured gardens and rubbish tips of Hong Kong have been captured in this drone footage shot by photographer Mariana Bisti.

Bisti aimed to capture the "complexities and contradictions" of Hong Kong, which is one of the most densely populated territories in the world.

She shot the footage in February this year, while undertaking a 10-week artist residency at Hong Kong Baptist University's Academy of Visual Arts.

Drone footage shows Heatherwick Studio's "tree-covered mountains" underway in Shanghai

In Shanghai, this flyover movie filmed by a drone shows work is well underway on Heatherwick Studio's "tree-covered mountains".

Following the success of the UK Pavilion, the design studio met with a developer who had a 15 acre site next to Shanghai’s main art district, M50. The site sat next to a public park and was split over two plots separated by a narrow strip of government land and incorporated several historic buildings.

Work is well underway on Heatherwick Studio's "tree-covered mountains"

The brief for the project was to create a new 300,000 square metre mixed-use development within a residential area, surrounded by concrete towers on three sides. Conceived not as a building but as a piece of topography, the design takes the form of two tree-covered mountains, populated by approximately one thousand structural columns.  Instead of being hidden behind the façade, the columns are the defining feature of the design, emerging from the building to support plants and trees.

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