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Victoria Dockside
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Located at the tip of Kowloon Peninsula, the reimagined Victoria Dockside is a vibrant, mixed-use development overlooking Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour.
Living, Working, and Playing at Victoria Dockside
The art and design district comprises hotel, office, and cultural components knit together with outdoor public space and gardens, reactivating the waterfront public realm. KPF collaborated with over 100 international designers and consultants to design the complex. The result is a coherent yet diverse and invigorating collection of interwoven environments.
Hospitality
The Rosewood Tower, comprising short-stay hotel amenities, serviced residences, and boutique office space, announces the neighbourhood along the waterfront. The landmark tower’s stepped, irregular massing expresses its multiple programmatic divisions while maintaining a cohesive exterior language.
Office
With their wide floorplates, the lower 15 levels of the tower are dedicated to K11 Atelier, a next-generation office space.
Retail
The 10-story K11 Musea anchors the base of the project with 3 million-square-foot of art and design related retail programs. The massing is punctured by a strategically positioned urban window on grade to allow for visual connection between inner parts of city to the Harbour, as well as enhancing urban ventilation, bringing in sea breezes along Chatham Road South at pedestrian level.
Residential
Lastly, K11 Artus provides hundreds of luxury waterfront residences replete with highly coveted views across the Hong Kong skyline and Victoria Harbour, defining the epitome of indulgent living.
Hospitality: Rosewood Hong Kong
Taking pride of place on Victoria Harbour, Rosewood Hong Kong is the flagship of the ultra-luxury hospitality group. Arriving guests ascend a cobblestone drive to reach a serene harbour front forecourt, and are welcomed into the vertical estate. Articulated with bronze metal, Portuguese limestone, and lush landscaped terraces, the podium offers a delightful variety of event spaces, gastronomic outlets, and wellness offerings. As a result of its prime location and thoughtful form, every single guestroom commands a spectacular view.
Retail: K11 Musea
Mimicking the transition from a rushing delta to a meandering stream with meticulous attention to structural flow, K11 Musea encourages visitors to travel from the market-style lower levels, through the canyons and terraces of boutique storefronts and exhibits, and toward the spacious upper levels to enjoy dining options amidst the bright rooftop gardens. 2D and 3D art instillations line its many niches and passageways, complemented by the intricate architecture of the project which includes a striking green wall on the façade of the building.
Residential: K11 Artus
With its sinuous façade that evokes water’s fluid motion, K11 Artus promotes complete porosity between indoor and outdoor living experiences. Each private balcony blurs the distinction between living space and the outside environment, interacting with the water below. Nestled between soft timber patterns overhead and underfoot, guests inhabit a secluded, earth-toned niche of comfort within the sculptural, glass waves of a modern façade.
The Spaces Between Buildings
Victoria Dockside’s ample outdoor public space and gardens reactivate the waterfront public realm while giving the locality a strong sense of place. All of its elements are designed with context in mind. To reduce the overall density and increase greenery, the four major programmatic components have been brought together in harmony to complement the dynamic movement of the harbour. Instead of one mega-sized block, there is a light-filled gap between the landmark tower and K11 Artus to provide access to the vista of sky and water, while a series of stepped façades and sky gardens maximize natural daylight.
The massing of K11 Musea and K11 Artus is also punctured by a strategically positioned urban window, allowing visual connection between city and harbour. The building mass shelters a landscaped playground and green lawn on the podium roof, with oval and hexagonal canopies providing shade and seating.
Public Realm Planning
Despite a relatively compact site, the ground level is highly permeable, creating opportunities for discovery and exploration. Interior and exterior, mountainside and seaside are stitched together in a uniquely Hong Kong mini-district.
Avenue of the Stars
The Avenue of Stars aspires to minimize the physical distance between the city and the waterfront, and to evoke the romanticism of harbourside strolling prevalent in Hong Kong during the 1980’s & 90’s. At night, it is softly illuminated thanks to state-of-the-art light fixtures.
Salisbury Garden
At Salisbury Garden, James Corner Field Operations designed a large central green lawn surrounded by custom-made wall planters and water features plays host to special events and art installations. An event trellis gestures towards the harbour and marks the special moment where the Garden opens up to the waterfront. Beneath the trellis is a generous cascade of outdoor seating that provides ample amenities for visitors and to facilitate special events.
Greenery
Existing trees have been conserved and replanted on the premises alongside new ones introduced to enhance shading. The foliage is dominated by native plant species that naturally thrive in the Hong Kong environment, allowing for minimal irrigation and maintenance.
Experiential Moments
The design of the buildings creates countless moments for discovery and wonder. The buildings are not just visually compelling themselves—they relate to one another and the interstitial water features, greenery, architectural pop-ups, art installations, retail graphics, and the larger Hong Kong landscape to create a distinct mini-neighborhood within Kowloon.
Resiliency and Sustainability
Harnessing its harbourfront location, seawater cooling is utilized for regulating thermal comfort before being used for flushing. Rainwater is also collected for irrigation. The tower incorporates one of Hong Kong’s largest PV power generation systems, consisting of BIPV panels on the tower top parapet and PV at the top of core.
K11 Atelier and Rosewood Hong Kong have attained LEED Platinum and Gold ratings respectively. K11 Artus and K11 Musea have jointly attained LEED Gold rating. The use of seawater-cooled, oil-free HVAC system reduces annual energy consumption by over 12%, compared to the baseline U.S. ASHRAE 90.1 standard. This in turn frees up the podium roof from conventional mechanical equipment, resulting in a roofscape filled with lively outdoor activities and landscape opportunities.
The podium façade continues the same material and color palette from the towers, while at the same time integrates one of the world’s largest living walls, boasting a total surface area of over 50,000 square feet of greenery inclusive of the interior and exterior, equivalent to the surface area of 18 tennis courts.
Crafted Variance
As the tower is located right next to the world-renowned Victoria Harbour, the challenge was to create a façade with character and maximize the spectacular view for users, while remaining conscious of sustainability. Careful studies were conducted during the design process, in particular on window-wall-ratio, façade performance, as well as integration of sustainable features.
The architectural diversity of the site emulates the varied program, while the use of stone, glass, and metal finishes provides a rich materiality. For the tower, stone piers communicate its verticality—from other neighbourhoods, the tower’s disposition shifts depending on one’s vantage, contributing to a dynamic skyline experience. Countering the tower’s upward expression, K11 Musea and K11 Artus feature undulating, horizontal ribbons along their façades, generating texture and balcony spaces. The result is a new icon for Hong Kong.
Project Details
In collaboration with over 100 designers and consultants, KPF led the intricately complex design of this vertical neighborhood-within-a-neighborhood, resulting in an iconic destination on Hong Kong’s waterfront.
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