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Hong Kong Building Designs
Contemporary HK Architectural + Property Developments in the Far East
post updated 2 October 2021
Building Designs in Hong Kong
We’ve selected what we feel are the key examples of Hong Kong Building Designs. e-architect cover completed HK buildings, new building designs, architectural exhibitions and architecture competitions across Hong Kong. The focus is on contemporary Hong Kong buildings but information on traditional HK buildings is also welcome.
We have 3 pages of Contemporary Hong Kong Building Designs selections.
Hong Kong Architecture : news + key projects
Hong Kong Buildings : A-H
Hong Kong Building Designs : I-Z (this page)
New Hong Kong Building Designs
HK Building Designs, alphabetical:
Innovation Tower, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University – PolyU
2007-
Design: Zaha Hadid Architects
picture from architect
Hong Kong University Building
The design of the 15,000 sqm building is typical for Zaha Hadid with its seamlessly fluidic structure. The PolyU building is being built at the northeastern corner of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University campus. The facility will offer space for 1,800 staff and students and will house a lecture hall, 10 classrooms, design studios and workshops as well as a design museum, exhibition space and a communal viewing lounge.
InterContinental Hong Kong
Design: Woods Bagot
image courtesy of the InterContinental Hong
InterContinental Hong Kong
Woods Bagot has recently completed the ballroom refurbishment of the InterContinental, Hong Kong. Inspired by the hotel’s unique position on Victoria Harbour, the design for the refurbished ballroom glistens, yet bestows a feeling of understated and refined luxury. “For the redesign of the InterContinental Ballroom, our artistic point of departure came from recognizing the hotel’s unique location on the edge of Victoria Harbour.
International Commerce Centre, West Kowloon
Architects: Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates with Wong & Ouyang
picture : Takuya Watanabe
International Commerce Centre incl. The Ritz-Carlton – The world’s highest hotel
With interiors designed by Singapore’s LTW, the hotel includes 312 guest rooms with spectacular city and harbour views. Other hotel amenities include six distinctive dining venues, an 860-square-meter spa by ESPA, as well as a glass-enclosed infinity pool with LED screen ceiling and an outdoor terrace with a glass-enclosed bar, both on the 118th floor.
i-Square
Design: Rocco Design / Benoy
photo courtesy Gammon Construction Ltd
i-Square
Located at the heart of Tsim Sha Tsui, iSQUARE revolutionized the retail market in Hong Kong. Situated in one of Asia’s top-five retail spots, this development injects new energy and vitality into the Nathan Road and Peking Road area.
Jardine House, Central
1973
Design: P & T Architects & Engineers Ltd
photo © Andrew McRae
Jardine House Hong Kong
Located in the historic centre of Hong Kong by the harbour this 50-storey skyscraper was the tallest building in Hong Kong from 1972 to 1980. It lost the title of Hong Kong’s tallest building to the Hopewell Center.
Lippo Center, Wan Chai
1998
Design: Paul Rudolph, Wong & Ouyang
photo © Adrian Welch
Lippo Center Hong Kong
172m high tower just east of the city centre, design by famous American Modernist architect
The Peak – Peak Tower, Victoria Peak
1995
Design: Terry Farrell Architects
photograph © AW
The Peak Hong Kong
Curious building shaped like a Wok on two legs, designed to look good on the skyline this is an early ‘icon building’. I felt that the place was a bit tacky and that the circulation was tight and confusing – and simply took in the magnificent view. Accessible by using the Peak Tram, a funicular ride through upper Hong Kong, taking you up to around 400m above sea level. Famously architect Zaha Hadid did one of her earliest building designs for The Peak architecture competition.
Savannah College of Art and Design
Design: LEO A DALY
image : Chia Chiung Chong, SCAD
SCAD Building
LEO A DALY collaborated with SCAD to provide design direction, space planning, project management, quality control and review to convert the 6,500-square-meter building into a world-class digital media center and design university. LEO A DALY also oversaw the development of documentation by the local design institute, LCK Architects, which served as the architect of record and directed the local sub-consultant engineering team.
West Kowloon Cultural District
2010-
Design: OMA
image courtesy OMA
West Kowloon Cultural District – design
The West Kowloon Cultural District Authority unveiled today OMA’s conceptual masterplan for a major new arts district in Hong Kong. Under OMA’s plan – one of three competing proposals – the 40 hectare waterfront site facing Victoria Harbour would become an authentic environment of three urban villages embedded in a new public park, Hong Kong’s largest.
West Kowloon Development
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Design: Foster + Partners
picture from architect
West Kowloon Cultural Complex
Foster + Partners was selected for the design of the 40-hectare masterplan for West Kowloon Cultural District. City Park will be a major cultural centre for music, performing and visual arts, incorporating public spaces and spaces for Chinese culture, living, working, galleries and studios on a dramatic harbour-front site in the heart of Hong Kong.
Hong Kong Buildings – No Images
International Commerce Centre, Union Square, West Kowloon
2002-10
Architects: Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates with Wong & Ouyang
International Commerce Centre skyscraper (118 storeys, 484m high)
Lok Yew Hall, University of Hong Kong
1912
Leigh & Orange
Mandarin Hotel
1965
Leigh & Orange
Nina Towers
2008
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pair of towers, tallest at 319m high, currently 22nd tallest tower in world
For Chinachem Group
Ristorante Isola
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Leigh & Orange Ltd
Shatin Racecourse
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Leigh & Orange
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