Architect: Aedas
Location: Kowloon Bay, Hong Kong, China
Size: 32,400 sq m (GFA)
Status: Completion 2010
Aedas shared with us their design for a 28-storey mixed-use building which includes housing, offices, retail spaces and a car park. A design with efficient office floor plates and a rational box were requested by the client. With the building located in a community with dense industrial blocks, instead of providing another office tower entirely wrapped in a coolly glazed skin, the design investigates the possibility of providing an environmentally sustainable design in such an industrial area. More images and architects’ description after the break.
Kowloon Bay, once dependent on manufacturing, is undergoing transformation of rejuvenation. The target is to contribute a greening effect to the neighborhood and enhance the quality of life for users in the building as well as the pedestrians on the street level.
With ‘green’ as the theme, the final design introduces extensive planting at the car park floors located at the lower portion of the tower. In addition to the visually greening effect to the neighborhood, the planting also filters the air and improves the air quality within the car park. Hopefully, the suspended particulates in the air can be reduced and the design is able to provide car park users a more pleasant experience.
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- east elevation
I think it looks EXACTLY like “another office tower entirely wrapped in a coolly glazed skin” — only stuck on top of a slightly more appealing parking structure than usual… are there any real sustainability aspects to this, or merely a quick, pretty green-wash?
It’s gorgeous. Well done Aedas. Richard raises a good question on sustainability, however, this design makes a visually positive contribution to the locale.
Jussieu library turned into a ‘green’ parking garage with added offices, nice.
Truly it is a pretty, dynamic elevations with greenery, we need more green on our street. But to me the green here is merely a building ornament, it seems not functioning as a sustainable item, i.e. thermal issues
我希望建筑都能展示出如此生机盎然。
loads of nice images with distorted perspectives, can architecture be more than that?
though it’s a nice attempt on something new in hong kong, inhabitants or end users and pedestrians, should be treated as equal. why is there not even one photo taken from inside?