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Company Original Vision

Project Villa Amanzi, Phuket

Project leader Adrian McCarroll

Project designers Jamie Jamieson, Waiman Cheung

The goal of the design was to make the home harmonise with its location and surroundings. This was achieved by analysing the survey and topographical information and designing the building to tuck into the site, capitalising on the drama of the rock that runs through the home and defines it; from first approaches all the way down to the rock pools at the ocean front. Cantilevered over a massage sala, the swimming pool completes the composition. It is the focal point that draws the eye to the view.

 

Company The Oval Partnership

Project Sanlitun Village North, Beijing

Project leader Christopher Law

Project designers Christopher Law, Patrick Bruce, Sada Lam

For the architectural and urban design of the 13-acre Sanlitun Village retail mixed-use project in the centre of the entertainment district in Beijing, the architects decided, in conjunction with the developer, that the project should adopt an open and permeable urban pattern, comprising of a number of building blocks. Many streets, lanes and alleys crisscross the development; the design aims to reinstate the age-old relationship between shops and public realms. Many designers and tenants were invited to design the elevation of the buildings. The architect called this approach the ‘Open City’ concept.

 

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Company NHDRO (Neri&Hu Design and Research Office)

Project The Waterhouse at South Bund, Shanghai

Project leaders Lyndon Neri, Rossana Hu

Project designers Cai Chunyan, Markus Stoecklein, Jane Wang, Deppy Haepers

Located by the new Cool Docks development in Shanghai’s South Bund, the Waterhouse is a four-story, 19-room boutique hotel built into an existing three-story Japanese Army headquarters building from the 1930s. The original concrete building was restored, while new additions built over the existing structure were made using Cor-Ten steel, reflecting the industrial past of this working dock by the Huangpu River. NHDRO’s structural addition of the fourth floor provides an analogous contextual link to both history and local culture.

 

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Company NHDRO (Neri&Hu Design and Research Office)

Project The Urban Gallery, Julu Lu, Shanghai

Project leaders Lyndon Neri, Rossana Hu

Project designers Jonas Hultman, Joy Qiao, Xiao Lei, Zhao Lei, Stephanie Chu

Julu Lu is a prominent street in the former French Concession of Shanghai. The project had two aims: firstly, to reshape the urban streetscape and to re-develop an area of 12 historic villas to a multi-use compound. NHDRO restored the existing villas, adding a clear delineation of past versus present architecture. New structures are built of traditional materials with contemporary detailing to maximise views and light. At one end of the open green space is a gathering area with a new bar/café.

 

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Company The Jerde Partnership

Project Namba Parks

Location Osaka

Size 175,000 sq-m

Project leader The Jerde Partnership – design architect; Obayashi – executive architect/general contractor

Project designers on Jerde, FAIA – creative director; Tammy McKerrow (Jerde) – design director; Wasaburo Sakamoto (Jerde) – project manager; Shoji Ooi (Obayashi) – manager; Nikken Sekkei (office tower); Obayashi (residential tower); Organisation for Promoting Urban Development – public partner

Namba Parks is a lifestyle transit-oriented ‘green’ development situated on a 3.37-hectare underused parcel in the heart of Osaka’s central business district, creating a park on top of an eight-level retail centre and beneath offices (30-storey tower) and residences (344 units in a 46-storey tower).

The sloping design of the rooftop park, which encompasses 40,000 plants and is maintained with recycled water, creates a green component while the interior represents a man-made canyon. Constructed from bands of coloured stone, the canyon reinforces the project’s connection with nature while forming the primary circulation path, sculpted to produce a sense of mystery and create a variety of coves, caves, valleys and other exploratory spaces.

At selected locations, varying with each level, direct access from the interior commercial components is provided to outdoor terraces located on the sloping park plane. Glass bridges connect the two sides of the canyon, by night becoming arcing tubes of light. All vertical spaces are sky-lit from the open-air park above.

The rooftop park is the project’s most important sustainable advancement, and has assisted in reducing the urban city’s heat-island effect with surface temperatures that are 17°C cooler in the summer. The amount of the heat transmitted from the rooftop’s green areas to the project’s interior was one-tenth that of the non-green areas.

The retail complex is made up of steel-frame construction, and clad on all non-glazed surfaces with preformed exposed-aggregate concrete panels in banded colours reminiscent of a desert canyon. There is extensive glazing throughout, especially in the storefronts that open to the roof terraces, as well as within the canyon space itself. A large glass structure highlights the southern end of the canyon and is designed as a contemporary Japanese lantern, twisting and turning throughout.

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Company Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates

Project One Central, Macau

Project team Paul Katz, FAIA – principal in charge; Forth Bagley and David Malott – senior designers; Nathan Wong – job captain; Roger Robison – project manager

The design of One Central is inspired both by Macau’s natural setting and its vibrant district of gaming and nightlife. The centrepiece of the mixed-use development is the 42-story Signature Tower, featuring the urban-resort concept Mandarin Oriental Hotel, with 213 guestrooms, 111 service apartments, restaurant, waterfront bar, and spa with an infinity pool cantilevered over the arrival courtyard. As one of the tallest buildings on the city skyline, the tower leans toward the water, making it visible from the high-speed hydrofoil link to Hong Kong.

 

 

 

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Company Barrie Ho Architecture Interiors

Project City Art Square @ Shatin

Project leader Barrie Ho

Project team Angelina Pi, Becky Sun, Calvin Ng, Dick Leung, Michael Yen

City Art Square was the beautification of a dumbbell-shaped public space into an international public art park of approximately 190,000 sq-ft, located in the middle of a cluster of public facilities, a shopping mall complex, residential developments and the adjacent Olympic Village. The project started with redesigning most of the soft and hard landscape, with new decking and plantations highlighting the different zones. With the Olympic Equestrian Games being held in Shatin, the pedestrian walkway was transformed into a pioneering international public art park, open 24/7.

 

Company Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates

Project Shanghai World Financial Centre

Location Shanghai

Size 381,600 sq-m

Project leader William Pedersen, FAIA, FAAR – design principal

Project designers Eugene Kohn, FAIA, RIBA, JIA – principal-in-charge; Paul Katz, FAIA, HKIA – managing principal; Joshua Chaiken, AIA, Ko Makabe, David Malott – senior designers

Originally conceived in 1993, this project was put on hold during the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s and was later redesigned to its current height — 32m higher than before. The new, taller structure would not only have to be made lighter, but would need to resist higher wind loads and utilise existing foundations which had been constructed prior to the project delay.

The project’s structural engineer, Leslie E Robertson Associates, devised a structural solution which abandoned the original concrete frame structure in favour of a diagonal-braced frame with outrigger trusses coupled to the columns of the mega-structure. This enabled the weight of the building to be reduced by more than 10 per cent, consequently reducing the use of materials and resulting in a more transparent structure in visual and conceptual harmony with the tower’s form.

The Shanghai World Financial Centre (SWFC) houses a mix of office and retail uses, as well as a Park Hyatt Hotel on the 79th to 93rd floors. Occupying the tower’s uppermost floors, the SWFC Sky Arena offers visitors aerial views of the historic Lujiazui and winding river below and the chance to literally walk almost 500m above the city via the 100th-floor Sky Walk.

A large retail volume wraps around the base of the tower and faces a planned public park on the site’s eastern side, further activating the sphere of activity at street level.

The elemental forms of the heavens and the earth inspired the design of the building’s podium, where an angled wall representing the horizon cuts through the overlapping circle and square shapes. The wall’s angle creates a prominent façade for the landscaped public space on the tower’s western side, and organises the ground level to provide separate entrances for office workers, hotel guests and public access to express elevator service for Sky Walk visitors.

 

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Company Arquitectonica

Project Landmark East, Hong Kong

Project leaders Bernardo Fort Brescia, FAIA; Laurinda Spear, FAIA

Project team Peter Brannan – project director; Matthew McCallum – project manager; Anthony Lai – project architect

The rectangular floor plates of both towers provide efficiency and allow side cores to the north. This in turn orientates the office floors to the south, taking advantage of views of Victoria Harbour and Hong Kong Island. The orthogonal tower forms were segmented in section, creating a series of interlocking parallelogram slabs. This arrangement emphasises the sensation of movement and conveys lightness to the towers. Efficient floor plans are therefore retained while providing dynamism to what would otherwise be a regular box derived from a rectangular plan.

 

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Company Ivanho Architect

Project Revitalisation of Old Clubhouse, Beas River Country Club, Sheung Shui

Project leader Ivan Ho

Project designer Donna Hsiung

The old Clubhouse at the Beas River Country Club, owned by the Hong Kong Jockey Club, was built in 1920s. Restoration included façade refurbishment; interior upgrading for the retail area, bar and restaurant; hard and soft landscaping. The new stone façade restored the structure’s identity in harmony with the site context and surrounding landscape, and allowed exterior and interior to merge into a coherent composition of old and new structure, built and natural environment. Five original arches of the Clubhouse were reinstated, restoring the original glamour of this pre-war building.

 

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Company Barrie Ho Architecture Interiors

Project SKH Ming Hua Theological College, Hong Kong

Project leader Barrie Ho

Project designer Angelina Pi

This project involved the restoration of the 110-year-old Sheng Kung Hui Ming Hua Theological College, designated a Grade III historical building by Hong Kong’s Antiquities and Monuments Office. Rather than adding new or modernistic designs, the project focused on making good the structure and adding elements to highlight the historical beauty of the complex. All major historical ornaments, motifs and features, such as the timber windows, veranda balustrades and the colour of the external facade, were restored to their original state after studying relevant historical architectural literature.

 

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Company The Oval Partnership

Project KPMG-CCTF Community Centre

Location Cifeng village, Sichuan province, China

Size 450 sq-m

Project leader Dr Lin Hao

Project team China Children and Teenagers’ Fund – client; Oval Partnership – KPMG China architect; China Southwest Architectural Design and Research Institute, Calder Latif Associates, YBkouki China Southwest Architectural Design and Research Institute – C&S consultants; China Southwest Architectural Design and Research Institute, CIBSE Electrical Services Group UK – E&M consultants; Beijing Tang_Landscape Plan & Design Center – landscape architect; Chengdu Urban Rivers Association – environmental/ecology consultant

KPMG China, in partnership with China Children and Teenagers’ Fund and the Chengdu Women’s Federation, built this community centre in Cifeng village in response to urgent needs in the earthquake-devastated region. The world’s first long-span reconstituted bamboo structure, the centre features innovative green and intelligent features to reduce environmental impact and improve sustainable rural community development.

The project was proposed as one where villagers seek blessing, inspiration, kindness, enlightenment, well-being and happiness, and highlights the following creative concepts:

The building itself has a series of innovative green and intelligent features to reduce environmental impact and improve sustainable rural community development, adopting a passive system of environmental conditioning. Sustainable aspects of the project include a passive bio-climate design to improve IEQ and achieve a low carbon scheme; highly insulated cavity walls; Solatube systems inducing natural lighting and balancing indoor lighting level; a curved roof to assist air flow; a raised floor promoting natural ventilation and reducing site impact; and double-glazed windows with thermal-insulated laminated timber frames.

 

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Company Aedas

Project EcoPark Administration Building, Tuen Mun, Hong Kong

Project leaders Kyran Sze (project director) Maxwell Connop (design director)

Project designer Rachel Chow (project architect)

EcoPark is a key element in the Hong Kong government’s strategy to promote and support local re-cycling and environmentally-conscious industries. A multi-purpose administration building contains a visitor/education centre and product gallery for the community education, together with meeting rooms, resources centre and supportive facilities for use by the tenants. A palette of eco-friendly materials was used, including an extensive green roof to improve thermal performance; light funnels to increase the effective natural lighting; and regionally sourced external ‘self-finished’ terracotta louvers providing sustainable solar shading to the extensively glazed inner façade.