Client
Harbor Vantage Management Limited

Facility
Mixed use - Offices, Hotel, Retail

Size
200,000ft^² / 262,185 m² 

Status
Schematic Design

At the end of December 2000, Sun Hung Kai sponsored a competition for the design of a major tower and retail development adjacent to the Kowloon Station, facing the Bay of Hong Kong, and towards the central city of Hong Kong.

The programmatic brief given to Kohn Pedersen Fox by Sun Hung Kai encouraged the development of a tall tower structure which requested us to design a tall building that was both programmatically efficient and structurally economical. The programmed area for the tower was to include 270,000 square meters of office space and a 250-room "six-star hotel." Our response was to collaborate immediately with structural engineer Leslie Robertson and to determine the most efficient plan and a structural system for a building of these dimensions. These highly pragmatic concerns dominated our thought process and were the influencing factors in this building's design. 

Subsequent to the determination of sufficient form and structure we then introduced this theoretical form into a dialogue within the realities of the program in site conditions. Our primary challenge was to effectively draw together an external spatial environment which unifies the entire complex with the designs of the tall office tower.

The 7-star hotel in the crown of the tower has extensive convention & conference facilities as it is meant as a business hotel