18 Kowloon East by Aedas
Aedas have designed 18 Kowloon East, a 28-storey mixed-use building with offices, retail spaces and a carpark in Hong Kong.
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Description from the architects:
The project is a 28-storey mixed-use building with offices, retail spaces and a carpark. A design with efficient office floor plates and a rational box were requested by the client.
Kowloon Bay, once dependent on manufacturing, is undergoing transformation of rejuvenation. 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. The target is to contribute a greening effect to the neighbourhood 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 carpark floors located at the lower portion of the tower. In addition to the visually greening effect to the neighourhood, the planting also filters the air and improves the air quality within the carpark. Hopefully, the suspended particulates in the air can be reduced and the design is able to provide carpark users a more pleasant experience.
Visit the Aedas website – here.
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k.gray on 08 Nov 2011 at 4:05 am #
that is insanely awesome!
Tom Harper on 08 Nov 2011 at 2:21 pm #
I would smile every day as I passed that building. What a wonderful gift to the street.
Rambler on 08 Nov 2011 at 3:02 pm #
Tom, that is such a great way of describing it. A gift to the street.
Ithaqua on 08 Nov 2011 at 3:45 pm #
it is indeed a very good looking building.
JP on 08 Nov 2011 at 5:03 pm #
Looks nice, but I would like to see more pictures. The building is only shown from one perspective.
Adam on 08 Nov 2011 at 7:44 pm #
I LOVE this building, but I can’t help but wonder how it would look with green glass.
parastoo on 12 Nov 2011 at 8:44 am #
i love it
Steve on 15 Nov 2011 at 5:35 am #
…perhaps the blue glass was chosen to ‘camouflage’ the upper portion of the building. From the photos the building reads, at first glance, as only 4-5 stories.