Commercial Building Redevelopment

Hong Kong

The client intends to redevelop the lot to become a new grade B office high-rise with commercial space at the lower floors. A series of sun-shading fins shields the low-e glass facade, providing a dynamic presence without impacting views from the offices. Given the extremely tight site dimensions, WCWP approached the project by extensively researched potential core layouts to maximize efficiency while maintaining a clean and functional lettable typical floor area. Setbacks at several floors allow intermediate gardens and outdoor space for the offices and enliven the building massing.

David Zwirner Gallery

Central, Hong Kong

With more than 8,000 square feet of space, the gallery is the anchor tenant for a new art-centric building on Queen’s Road Central. Designed by Selldorf Architects, the two level space features four large exhibition rooms as well as two private viewing rooms, staff offices, and an art handling workshop. Museum-grade climate control and security systems were installed to ensure the safety of the artwork.

Hauser Wirth Gallery

Central, Hong Kong

Spread over two floors at H Queen’s in Central Hong Kong, the visitor experience starts at the 16/F in the largest gallery, which has concrete floors and exposed beams, followed by two exhibition rooms at the 15/F that are finished with end-grain wood block floors. Designed by Selldorf Architects, the fast-track project was conceived, designed, and delivered in an astounding 5 months. It includes supporting offices, an art-handling workshop and storage, and advanced security and climate control systems for the protection of the artwork.

Control Center and Office

New Territories, Hong Kong

Covering nearly 40,000 square feet, this fast-track fitting-out project was completed for a large institutional client in Hong Kong. Housing centralized control centers for their various departments and user-groups located across Hong Kong, the latest in workplace advances were adopted including customized technology-desking systems, acoustics, and specialized lighting. Considerations for highly-complex computer provisions and ergonomics were key considerations in coordinating the delivery of the project. A contrast of high-tech surfaces and patterns is offset by warm natural materials and wall graphics in the common areas.

Composite Development in Shamshuipo

Kowloon, Hong Kong

Located in Hong Kong’s dense by populated Shamshuipo district, this project includes two private residential towers, parking, recreational facilities, retail, and a public carpark above government facilities. The wave-like façade of the tower offers unobstructed views out from each unit with no overlooking between units, while maximizing building frontage constrained by building height limits and Building Department’s SBD requirements. The podium is similarly designed as a series of wave-like curves. On street level, this increases the overall length of available shop front, while simultaneously making it easier to subdivide the retail area into smaller shops. The curved shop fronts open onto a lively piazza for al fresco dining, leisure, and entertainment which in turns add commercial value to the shops facing the piazza. On-grade planting defines the piazza at the Camp Street road junction.

Data Center

Hong Kong

The Data Center was proposed to provide two fully self-contained TIA-942 Tier 3+ data centers within one building, with built-in 2N+1 redundancy to all manners of data handling and essential services. Modular design of the building allowed for efficient spatial planning within a compact massing that was also configured to permit easy future expansion. Being in a built-up area, the building massing and envelope attempted to blend in with surrounding buildings through common analogies, form and colors, while respecting the sight lines of others. To counter the enormous amount of heat that data centers usually and incessantly generate, the building envelope adopted various environmentally-responsive strategies from green roof, green wall, to double-skin facade design.

Eu Yan Sang Flagship Store

Sheung Wan, Hong Kong

Located along the bustling Des Voeux Road Central in Sheung Wan, Eu Yan Sang’s new flagship retail store provides the company with a sleek new space for displaying their various medicines and herbs. The store also includes treatment rooms, consultation facilities, Chinese herb storage unit and traditional Chinese herb packing unit. Additional highlights are the heritage gallery and museum and the signature horse statuette.

Pearl Horizon

Lote P, Novos Aterros da Areia Preta, Macau

Overlooking the Pearl River Estuary, this mixed-use development covers a site area of approximately 68,000 m² and is situated in a prime location in close proximity to the upcoming Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge entrance. The development comprises 18 residential towers, a 3-storey shopping podium with flagship stores and car-park facilities providing over 3000 parking spaces for residents and visitors. Designed with extensive linkages connecting the new development to the existing urban fabric, a wide colonnade is provided around the street frontage to allow convenient access to the main entrances and atria of the shopping podium. The shopping podium incorporates efficient spatial planning to maximize retail space while simultaneously creating a “destination” shopping experience of visitors. The extensive use of skylights introduces natural light to the interior space and enhances the open and inviting environment while the planning is based on “town square” concept with a variety of public spaces including an urban piazza, a café seating area and a water feature, together creating an exceptional gathering place for the public. Atop the retail podium is a sky-high terrace garden. Embraced by the residential towers, the landscaped terrace is designed to create an open and vibrant place of leisure for the residents. The open-air terrace also provides access to clubhouse with various facilities including swimming pool, ball courts, multi-function rooms and leisure gardens. Pearl Horizon is set to become an urban hotspot for both the local community and visitors, redefining the Areia Preta area.

Rose Rock International Financial Centre

Tianjin, China

RoseRock International Finance Center, is an iconic supertall highrise building of 588 meters tall which will be the centerpiece of the new Tianjin Finance Center located in the new Yujiapu District of Tianjin China. Designed in collaboration with BIG of Copenhagen, Denmark, the tower rises from the ground in a slender tapered silhouette reaching to the sky. WCWP’s role as Executive Architect is to make this design concept a reality, through Plan Development, Construction Documents and Construction phases. The program includes connection to High Speed Rail and Subway station, 2 level of underground pedestrian mall, 3 levels of parking in 25m deep basement, Retail at grade and above, 300 room luxury hotel, 40+ stories of Grade A office and one of the world’s highest Observation Decks.

Shatin Communications and Technology Centre

Shatin, Hong Kong

The Shatin Communications and Technology Centre (SCTC) at Shatin Racecourse is designed to provide a world-class working environment for staff of The Hong Kong Jockey Club. It brings together a series of core operations within an improved, more sustainable environment which caters to the long-term operational requirements of the Club. Each floorplate of this ten-story building is about 5,000 square meters, and there is a six meter deep basement housing plant rooms. The building accommodates the Club’s Main Telebet Centre, an Integrated Control Centre, the IT Department, Broadcasting Department facilities including their television studios, and a Hong Kong Jockey Club College for ongoing development of Club employees. The College, on the top floor, opens onto a tree-filled courtyard which leads up to a split level roof garden with uninterrupted views of the racecourse. With sustainable design features including outstanding energy performance, use of solar hot water heating, incorporation of a rain water recycling system, and numerous measures for occupant well-being, the project achieved LEED Gold certification and BEAM Plus Gold certification, and has won the 2016 ASHRAE Regional XIII Technology Award.

Haiya Commercial Complex

Kunming, China

The given site is located at the heart of Kunming City with natural sceneries of mountains and lakes. Being part of the city development, the design will create a new landmark with a commercial office tower on top and an entertainment complex below. The upper complex provides two different schemes, with a shared idea that will maximize economic and commercial effectiveness. The first scheme comprises a single tower that takes Chinese lantern as inspiration, incorporating the folding structure to the tower, enhancing it aesthetically. In the second scheme, a twin tower stands out as a landmark, acting as a gateway to the city. In order to reach out and connect, the lower complex will take an innovative approach that differs from typical mall designs in terms of spatial experience. Circulations are designed to weave both inside and outside around the complex, with a variety of re-creational and commercial facilities interconnected and continuous at all levels, creating a vivid and dynamic shopping experience in all aspects, merging the architecture and the city as a whole.

CTS Phase 2

Fuzhou, China

Three residential towers and a single office building rise above a six-level shopping center housing retail shops, a cinema, and skating rink. Covered walkways leading to the separate entries for the different apartment buildings weave through a lush roof garden featuring pools and clubhouse facilities. Below, a grand plaza with suspended escalators allows pedestrians to filter into the atrium of the mall at various levels. WCWP devised a lively facade of LED panels that light up the complex at night, drawing attention from the neighboring highway.

Century Link

Shanghai, China

Located above Shanghai’s newest and busiest Metro interchange with 4 intersecting subway lines and only a stone’s throw away from the Pudong financial district, this 368,539 sqm. project comprises two 32-storey grade A office towers, 168m high, which sit above a 6-storey retail podium and entertainment complex. A 5-storey basement provides 3 levels of car parking, 2 additional floors of shopping experience. The symmetrical Towers above the gracefully curved podium create a backdrop to the sunken pedestrian plaza which adjoins the Metro station and compliments the integrated development of the opposite side of Century Link as designed by SOM. Special challenges included constructing over the already completed and operating subway line and incorporating ventilation and exhaust for the Subway Station within the new podium design.

Hong Xing Lu Commercial Centre

Chengdu, Sichuan

This proposal for a major multi-use development occupied a prime site at the center of Chengdu, and is connected to the major pedestrian street. With offices, serviced apartments and hotels separated into three towers, the complex centers around a large terraced podium garden, while an ”eco-corridor” which incorporates restaurants and retails under a green canopy, mediates between the street and the mall. Above the three-storey shopping centre, a covered walkaway rings the entire complex, allowing pedestrians to circulate freely both at ground level and at the podium roof level, facilitating circulations and allowing views to the landscapes and greeneries planned around, as if walking in a huge garden.

New Cultural Plaza

Shenzhen, China

Located at an important junction of two of Shenzhen’s major transportation arteries, this winning entry to an invited competition proposed a large circular urban plaza to draw pedestrians into the three-storey shopping mall podium. The retail center serves as the spine of the complex, bridging over a pedestrian street that provides a lateral connection across the center of the otherwise massive site. Above, the three 27-storey towers contain offices, high-end serviced apartments, and a full-facility hotel.

DHL Central Asia Hub

Chek Lap Kok, Hong Kong

This state-of-the-art $100 million facility is the largest dedicated air express cargo center in the region, capable of handing up to 440 tonnes of air express cargo per day. WCWP worked closely with DHL to thoroughly analyze and integrate their extremely advanced IT and distribution networks. In addition to tailoring the building to meet these specific large-scale loads and requirements, WCWP incorporated an exceedingly complex document handling system, capable of processing 15,000 documents per hour, which demanded specialized building services.

YICT Headquarters

Shenzhen, China

Designed for Yantian International Container Terminals, one of the fastest growing container terminals in the region, this project was conceived of as a model of sustainable architecture. From siting the building for optimal sun exposure to intelligent building systems, several varying methods of reducing energy usage were proposed. In addition, the environmental footprint of the building was decreased by incorporating an extremely efficient structural system, such that excessive reinforcement could be eliminated.

DBS Bank Headquarters

Central, Hong Kong

Originally designed to serve as the main Hong Kong banking branch and offices for Kwong On Bank Limited, the main atrium of this 23-storey commercial development opens directly onto busy Queen’s Road in Central. The narrow site meant that public banking halls had to be split onto multiple levels. WCWP sought to visually unite the three podium levels and one basement level through a series of dramatic circular openings and suspended escalators weaving their way up into the building. The sense of openness encourages customers to move freely throughout the public areas of the bank.

Metropolitan Plaza

Chongqing, China

Consists of 388 rooms five-star Harbour Plaza Hotel, a 8-storey shopping mall, and a Grade-A office tower, the tremendous scale of the Metropolitan Plaza complex were established itself as an anchor of the central business district of Chongqing. WCWP created multiple entrance porticos overlooking a series of large outdoor plazas in an attempt to integrate the development with the surrounding urban fabric. In addition to assorted luxury retailers, the eight-storey shopping arcade includes cinemas, ice-skating rink, bowling alley, and disco. Metropolitan Plaza won Best Architectural Design in Chongqing for 1998 and 1999 from the Chongqing Prospecting and Design Association. It was also awarded the Tien-Yow Jeme Prize by the China Civil Engineering Society in 2002.

Sing Pao Building

North Point, Hong Kong

A complex extension to the existing Sing Pao Building resulted in a new office tower being constructed directly adjacent to the existing tower. Complete external facade renovation.

Lilian Sun Plaza

Shenzhen, China

Proposed Hotels in Kai Tak

Kai Tak, Hong Kong

The proposals tried to marry high-end exclusive hotels and residence together with Grade A offices with a public resource celebrating Hong Kong’s connectivity to the Harbor. An elevated public landscaped deck has been exploited to allow direct pedestrian linkage with the at grade waterfront promenade on both sites of the old Kai Tak Runway District. The projected pedestrian flow is directly connected to first level retail below the office and hotel towers; to the obligatory ground floor retail along the boundary adjacent to the waterfront promenade; and to the landscaped deck via prescribed escalator and elevator links to the north-east, south-west and south of the site without compromising the autonomy or security of the high-end facilities.

Baha Mar Resort

The Bahamas

WCWP has been hard at work managing the completion and delivery of the US$4.2 billion integrated complex. Comprising three hotels with a combined 2,300 rooms, the resort also boasts the largest casino in the Caribbean, a 20,000sqm convention centre, a PGA-rated 18-hole golf course, and extensive landscaping featuring 11 swimming pools. Supplementing the hotels' amenities are stand-alone facilities such as luxury shopping and dining areas, a 2500m² spa complex, a racquet club, a nightclub, and a set of lavish beachfront villas that link to the hotels. After the original holding company was passed into receivership, WCWP was commissioned to project manage a fast-track completion with the Main Contractor. From 2016, WCWP has worked with the Bahamas government, the official receivers, the financing bank, and the new purchasers to achieve a soft opening on schedule and within budget.

Regency Park Hotel

Pudong, Shanghai

Part of a large scale development in Pudong, this 4-star 63-room hotel, also designed by WCWP, includes eight suites and one presidential suite. It provides a variety of leisure and entertainment facilities and it is conveniently connected to a fitness spa, clubhouse and also a shopping center. Clad in varied brick tiles and adopting a combination of other modern materials such as GRC, the aesthetic recalls North American collegiate architecture. The design of units looks to maximize the functionality of small spaces and maintain privacy while affording views of the surrounding landscaping and swimming pools.

Lanson Place Hotel

Causeway Bay, Hong Kong

For this major alteration of an existing commercial structure into a designer boutique hotel with nearly 200 rooms, WCWP worked closely with a façade consultant and international interior designer to deliver everything from custom exterior stone details to custom fabricated furnishing in the lobbies and guest rooms. At the heart of Causeway Bay, this discreet boutique hotel has nearly 200 rooms ranging from 380 square foot studios to a nearly 2000 square foot two-bedroom suite. The ground floor sets the tone by creating the illusion of a sunny garden courtyard by arranging the functional drop off and entrance spaces around an elegant light-filled “verandah”, while large windows bring the same sense of light and airiness up to the lounge and cocktail bar on the first floor and the rooms above. Lanson Place Hotel has been awarded with several hospitality industry awards since opening in 2005, including Harper’s Bazaar Style Awards 2007 Boutique Hotel of the Year.

Cape Coral Clubhouse

Panyu, Guangzhou

Serving the residences of the ultra-exclusive Cape Coral residential development, these two modern clubhouses housed sumptuous recreational facilities that included multiple pools, gymnasiums, game rooms, and sports facilities. In addition, an extensive business centre and wine and cigar club cater to the work and social requirements of the residents.

Water Park

Chengdu, Sichuan

This large-scale recreation and entertainment complex included a shopping mall, exhibition center, and luxury resort hotel with over 200 rooms. The park centered around water themed attractions and rides, including aquaria, sports, and shows. WCWP’s design highlighted this theme by incorporating meandering canals throughout the complex, as well as ponds and spectacular fountain displays.

Kowloon Tong Club

Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong

Founded in the 1930s, the venerable Kowloon Tong Club required significant upgrading and expansion of their existing clubhouse, dating from the early 1970s. WCWP was retained to bring the club’s facilities in line with modern-day standards, as well as with statutory requirements. The renovated club included multiple restaurants, administration areas, bowling alleys, a gym, tennis courts, swimming pools, and a golf driving range. The large cantilevered glass canopy creates an impressive statement for the main entrance to the club, while the subtle use of materials throughout the building enhances an image of luxury.

Bangkok Resort Development

Bangkok, Thailand

It comprises a recreational town center, a yacht club, a tournament golf course, and luxury residential estates.

Bamboo Grove Hotel

Suzhou, China

Drawing on it’s location at the heart of Suzhou’s UNESCO World Heritage Sites, the Bamboo Grove Hotel is designed to reflect the charming traditional character of the surrounding waterways, gardens and historical buildings while providing the modern amenities required for a high-end hotel. Centered around water features and ponds with local taihu rock sculptures reminiscent of the famous Lion Grove grottoes nearby, geometric openings in the whitewashed buildings provide views over the elegant waterways and classical bamboo gardens. Gray tile roofs echo Suzhou’s indigenous architecture. With over 350 rooms, extensive meeting facilities, four restaurants, business facilities and a fitness centre, the hotel was one of the first international standard hotels in Suzhou.

New World Millennium Hong Kong Hotel

Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong

The prestigious harbor-front hotel in Tsim Sha Tsui East features 463 guest rooms and 18 suites, seven food and beverages outlets, and banqueting facilities for up to 380. The sweeping curves of the tower were designed to provide spectacular views of Hong Kong’s skyline for a maximum number of guest rooms. In addition to the underground shopping arcade, the hotel also includes a health club and a dramatic rooftop swimming pool.

The Peninsula Beijing

Beijing, China

Located on Beijing’s most famous pedestrian shopping street, Wangfujing, the former Palace Hotel was one of Beijing’s first hotels to be awarded five stars. The project is a significant landmark in the area, and contains over 500 rooms, four restaurants, an indoor swimming pool, and full-service spa and fitness facilities. At the base of the building, a luxury shopping mall continues the pattern of adjacent retail and connects the hotel to the surrounding street life. The building’s imposing exterior integrates modern materials and design elements with traditional Chinese architectural motifs.

Tseung Kwan O Industrial Estate Development

Hong Kong

This proposed advanced industrial complex is set on reclaimed land within Tseung Kwan O Industrial Estate. The layout is centered on a simple, rational series of rectangular modules that allows maximum flexibility in that the production modules are essentially infinitely combinable. Large central voids acts as spines for the building which serves multiple purposes, including running of services, providing louvered external walls to the production areas, and providing landscaped, light-filled atria for the building’s inhabitants. Due to the differing headroom requirements, offices are located on the top floor, with access to communal green space, ample natural light, and more open views. Series of multi-directional vertical louvers creates patterns of data matrix symbols presenting a more iconic architectural presence. In addition these louvers acts as solar barriers that causes heat gain and discomfort to internal users.

Chinese Medicine Plant

Yuen Long, Hong Kong

WCWP has been selected by one of Asia’s leading Traditional Chinese Medicine purveyors to design their new healthcare R&D and manufacturing facility at Yuen Long Industrial Estate. Part of the Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation, the site of 15,839sqm will be developed into a state of the art production factory for Traditional Chinese Medicine, nutraceutical foods, and dietary supplements which will help ensure world class standards are maintained during all stages of growing, processing and retailing of their herbal remedies. The production complex features cutting edge herb extraction plant, a suite of cleanrooms and a large warehouse. Secondary to these are a large modern office, a reception lobby, a museum, canteen and training rooms, for which WCWP International Limited has designed the interiors.

High-Tech Factory Development

Yuen Long, Hong Kong

To accommodate its expanding business and its long-term development needs, a prominent Hong Kong company has recently engaged WCWP to design and construct a state-of-the-art production facility which meets stringent international regulatory standards. The 43,974 sqm site, part of the Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks, has been developed into an advanced manufacturing and production complex, which boasts a fully automated production process and the latest in computerised tablet machines. Unusually for Hong Kong, the building complex is a large metallic horizontal structure, and the factory features a large standing seam metal clad envelope with the latest Siphonic Drainage system. The production plant and warehouse are state of the art. WCWP also designed the interiors for the large office, reception lobby and meeting facilities.

APT Telepark Complex (Ph.II&III)

Tai Po, Hong Kong

Serving as corporate headquarters for APT Satellite Holdings, this complex included a Satellite Control Center, TV Broadcasting Center, and Network Operation Center for one of Asia Pacific’s leading transponder providers. The buildings are specially designed with shielding devices against radio frequency and electromagnettic interference from the satellite antennae. To protect the data storage area from external elements such as water seepage, heat gain and radiation, the external walls of these areas have minimal windows. As a counterpoint, WCWP sought to open up the public areas of the complex with large expanses of glass to bring in daylight and frame views of Tai Po’s idyllic landscape.

Beijing Nokia

Beijing, China

Providing highly specialized manufacturing and packaging facilities for Nokia’s high-growth operations in China, this complex also housed Beijing Nokia’s corporate offices. Some of the project’s major components were clean rooms, large data centers, a logistics center, and cargo handling areas. Amenity areas for the workers included a large staff canteen, a library, sauna, and various recreation lounges. WCWP designed the complex around a central spine that clarified circulation and allowed for potential future growth.

Student Hostel in Tertiary Institution

Hong Kong

Building Conversion and Improvement for Tertiary Institution

Hong Kong

Proposed Medical Care Home

Hong Kong

Connectivity Enhancement

New Territories, Hong Kong

As part of the creation of a dramatic new northern gateway to a high-tech campus in the New Territories, WCWP’s proposal promotes the celebration of arrival. The design elegantly communicates the environmentally-conscious values of the client, as well as highlighting their sophisticated technology-centric mission. Comprising two co-joined 36m south facing radial and concentric floating dishes, the porte cochere provides shade and protection from the elements whilst also acting as efficient energy and water harvesting devices. The design generates a holistic, innovative and iconic entrance to the campus, allowing for easy and apparent separation of pedestrian and vehicular flow.

Elderly Residential Care Homes

New Territories, Hong Kong

The fitting out project was conceived as a forward-looking elderly home, incorporating digital design elements that provide a constant change of mood to suit different occasions and times of day.The careful placement of digital visual devices helps to virtually bring the external environment into the interior and provides an energetic “living” space for the tenants. The design helps to position the development as a dynamic background that encourages residents to explore an active and vibrant retirement life.

Green Shore Primary and Secondary School

Panyu, Guangzhou

Green Shore 9-year compulsory school provides 24 classes for primary students and 24 classes for secondary students. The campus is divided into 3 main areas, with logistics areas, dormitories and faculty apartments in the northwest area; the indoor gymnasium, 400m standard track, stadium, outdoor swimming pool, basketball court and volleyball court in the west; and the main building in the southwest. The main building is a simple rectangular form with five inner courtyards. The building houses the main administration functions in the center, the primary school in the west and the secondary school in the east. The building facades adopt a contemporary classical style expressed by three elements: the base uses sprayed stone and groove lines to imply gravitas, the middle section uses split-brick tiles enlivened with pilasters; and the cornices use decorative moldings with simplified profiles. WCWP carried out extensive research into modern pedagogy as part of the design process and incorporated such facilities as an organic canteen, bouncy castles, and a lush botanical garden.

Office Redevelopment at Causeway Bay

Causeway Bay, Hong Kong

The challenge of the project is to insert some 20,000 sq.m. of new office space in a multi-building site that lacks available space and is physically constrained by other existing buildings. Instead of adding to the congestion and clutter by introducing a new building, the design opts to wrap the new square footage, literally, around the largest of the existing buildings while removing (and absorbing) a host of smaller, secondary buildings. Not only does it invigorate a dated building and modernize its antiquated provisions with enhanced building and MEP systems, consolidate spaces within a larger building bulk and create more useable floor plates, resolve inter-building circulation problems, it also creates a new, unified administrative center in the form of a new icon that befits the client organization.

Library Refurbishment at Ma Tau Chung Government Primary School

Tokwawan, Hong Kong

The library at Ma Tau Chung Government Primary School is approximately 114 m2. Responding to the project brief to renovate the library in a “Chinese style”, WCWP adopted the theme of the Chinese window frame which is modernized, simplified, and twisted as suspended ceiling, furniture, and wall features. Bright colors were also introduced to create a modern and cheerful environment for the students.

Hoi Bun Road Park

Kwun Tong, Hong Kong

In order to provide a continuous waterfront network of open spaces connecting to the Kwun Tong Promenade Phase I, the Drainage Services Department fenced area was demolished to form part of the adjoining Hoi Bun Road Sitting-out Area. It covers a 900 m2 area, and incorporates hard landscaping, planting areas, and sitting out shelters. The design language of the shelters and the material palette selected pays homage to the industrial nature of the Kwung Tong area and the existing infrastructure elements.

Tsun Yip Street Playground

Kwun Tong, Hong Kong

WCWP oversaw the transformation of Tsun Yip Street Playground which integrates locally-focused cultural installations and exhibits into the surrounding park. Phase 1 of the project involved converting a 1,300 m2 site into an open-air exhibition of Kwun Tong’s industrial heritage. Modified shipping containers act as eye-catching exhibition pavilions, while referencing the aesthetics of the district’s industrial past. The containers currently house “The Spirit of Creation” exhibition, which looks at economic development in Hong Kong and tells the story of the perseverance and creative spirit of Hongkongers. The project has won Good Design Award 2015 and Jury’s Special Mention- Special Architectural Award- Urban Design of HKIA Annual Awards 2014.

ASD Sports Facilities

Hong Kong

As part of a series of large-scope contracts with the Hong Kong Government, WCWP has completed a range of sports facilities at various scales all over Hong Kong. Encompassing everything from a golf driving range to running tracks, public stands seating hundreds of spectators, and water parks with intricate waterslide structures and multiple pools, these projects required the utmost in technical performance.

ASD Museum Interventions

Hong Kong

For the past decade, WCWP has been engaged by the Hong Kong Government for a series of term contracts covering a wide range of works, including substantial A&A works and new buildings. A number of these projects have been for several of Hong Kong’s more prestigious museums and civic institutions, including the Space Museum and Science Museum. Extensive renovation and refurbishment works throughout the interior public spaces and theatres of both Museums, as well as a major re-planning and renovation of the outdoor piazzas at the Science Museum, brought the facilities in line with modern day international standards. More recent renewal projects at the Museum of Art and the Tai Po Insect House involved overhauling restrooms, lecture theatres, and display areas, as well as the extremely complex tasks of updating ventilation systems and barrier free access provisions. In addition, several of these projects have engaged the firm’s on-going interest in the city’s heritage. At the Lei Cheng Uk Han Tomb Museum, a pristine white tensile canopy was stretched over the entire tomb as a protective measure against water damage without having to touch and potentially harm the ancient structure, believed to be nearly two-thousand years old. At the Hong Kong Heritage Museum in Shatin, full refurbishment of the galleries improved identity, visitor flow, lighting, and ventilation. Incorporating a Children’s Discovery Gallery, and specific halls for New Territories Heritage and Cantonese Opera, the renovation provided the museum with a modern and properly controlled environment for displaying their collection.

ASD Public Facilities

Hong Kong

The Hong Kong Government enlisted WCWP to carry out wide-ranging improvement works to public facilities as part of several general rejuvenation term consultancy packages covering more than a billion dollars of work. Scattered around the territory, the strategy was to approach these as a series of small urban projects which together could bring outsize benefits to their surrounding communities. Working within the tight constraints of government material palettes and details, WCWP sought to infuse each project with a distinct individual character through careful use of materiality, by incorporating architectural references to local building forms and styles, and through thoughtful planning. While many of the interventions called for sober colors and functional, no-nonsense designs, the playgrounds allowed opportunities for some innovative fun. In an effort to stimulate creative play, the Mouse Island playground, for example, was based on a nautical adventure theme, with a main ship climbing area, a lighthouse, and covered seating areas evoking the hulls and sails of small dinghies.

ASD Gardens and Promenades

Hong Kong

As part of several contracts totaling more than a billion dollars of work for the Hong Kong Government, WCWP was charged with revitalizing and upgrading public gardens and green spaces throughout the city. The gardens typologies vary, ranging from urban parkscapes to extensive promenades along key waterfront stretches, but many of them shared a need for new, durable shading structures to temper the intense local climate. Each park was engaged with a sensitivity to the particular existing context, ranging from providing smaller, intimate seating areas encouraging socializing in those parks frequented more by elderly patrons, to a full ampitheater for community performances in the middle one of the city’s busiest parks. The architectural styles of the various insertions were tailored to each unique environment, some choosing to play off the pre-existing vernacular style and others introducing more contemporary elements and materials. The projects included new buildings at North District Central Park, a long-span tensile structure in Sheung Shui, a dog park for residents of Tuen Mun, and seating areas at various parks in the New Territories, among others.

Le Parc Eagle Kindergarten

Cheng Du, Sichuan

Le Parc Eagle Kindergarten, part of the Le Parc development which was completed in 2012, provides space for 12 classes. The kindergarten is an English-language school, feeding into local international schools. The school’s main entrance is located at the northeast of the site, and is marked by a large, open piazza. Back of house facilities and a staff parking lot have separate entrances at the north, while the main teaching block and outdoor activities area are located at the south. Dynamic geometric facade elements create a feeling of movement and energy for the young students, while simultaneously introducing generous glass openings to bring natural light deep into the building. The color scheme makes reference to the beige and white aesthetic of the surrounding residential development, while bright orange accents are introduced to bring a sense of playfulness to the building. The school also includes facilities such as naturally lit painting studios, a full service cafeteria, and dodgeball courts.

Hi-Tech Zone Shiyang Elementary School

Cheng Du, Sichuan

Shiyang Elementary School, is a public elementary school located in Chengdu’s “Hi-Tech Zone” and houses a student body of 1,174. State of the art classrooms provide students with the latest in learning technology. The basic campus planning of the school is divided into a northern teaching block and a southern sports gymnasium and activity block. A central plaza is located at the main entrance connects the two and provides a space for students to socialize and interact between classes. To minimize maintenance, the facade of the building was simplified into to a series of elemental blocks which express the various functions of the building in a particularly “modernist” approach. Glass-enclosed vertical cores encourage use of the staircases and make them more welcoming for students moving between classes, while voids are carved out of the basic blocks to provide outdoor spaces throughout the building and encourage natural light to infiltrate further into the floorplates. Some of the provided amenity spaces include clean-room-standard science labs, a robotics workshop, and 30-metre climbing wall.

Raimondi College Primary Section

Wanchai, Hong Kong

One of Hong Kong’s most established Catholic primary schools, Raimondi, required extensive work to their existing building to bring it up to date with current school standards and to cater modern pedagogical methods. In addition to upgrading classrooms with advanced technology infrastructure, air conditioning, and updated lighting, WCWP completely refurbished the exterior and introduced a number of glass canopies at the ground floor to provide better weather protection for arriving and departing students. The existing mechanical roof, previously unused, was reformed into an outdoor multipurpose area by adding large sculptural canopies to provide shade.

Health Information World

Hong Kong

Covering a wide perspective of maintenance, refurbishment, repair, and small to medium-scaled addition and alteration works, this three year consultancy project for the Hong Kong Hospital Authority tackled different individual issues as required by each subsidiary hospital. Mainly focused on the clusters of Government Hospitals at Kowloon East and Kowloon Central Region, it involved works to ten existing dominant regional hospitals and a number of clinics, as well as rehabilitation centres.

Yew Chung International School

Pudong, Shanghai

Bringing together the demands of standard comprehensive and special needs of a contemporary International School, this building provides a stimulating, child-friendly environment for pupils from all over the world. An “Ivy League campus” style was adopted as the main concept for the elevation design. Architectural elements, such as pitched roof, bell tower and classical fenestration, were introduced to further reinforce the style. The courtyard layout provides a centralized space for school functions and activities which enhances interaction between students and teachers.

Lai Chi Kok Women’s Prison

Lai Chi Kok, Hong Kong

With capacity for 650 adult female inmates, the Lai Chi Kok Correctional Facility was redeveloped from an old government staff quarters and a former Kowloon Motor Bus Depot. This medium-security institution consists of five multi-storey buildings. The primary areas include a reception office, visiting area, the main dormitories, dining halls and kitchens, and a hospital. In line with modern correctional philosophy, a welfare unit, psychological services unit, and parent-child center were also incorporated. Additionally, WCWP designed activity rooms, workshops, a beauty salon, and a computer room for the inmates.

ASD School Improvement Programme

Hong Kong

WCWP was selected as lead consultant for three phases of ArchSD’s major initiative to bring Hong Kong’s primary and secondary schools in line with present day educational facility standards. For Phase 3, a total of 36 schools were upgraded, many of which required significant additions to their existing buildings. Phase 4 and the Final Phase each consisted of 33 schools. The projects involved general improvement and refurbishment of varying scope, as well as the addition of new teaching facilities and building extensions to the existing premises in many cases. Several of the schools presented extremely challenging site and functional requirements, including limited site area for additions, consideration of steep slopes, and tight construction schedules.

Japanese International School

Tai Po, Hong Kong

Located at the intersection of the cruciform plan, a sun-drenched three-storey atrium forms the entry and the central gathering point of the school. It provides visual connections between the lobbies on each floor that lead to the various major functions distributed through the four wings. WCWP designed multiple roof gardens and playgrounds, staggered vertically at different levels, to encourage students to utilize the outdoor areas which are surrounded by the greenery of the New Territories and have spectacular views of nearby Tolo Harbour. The building is also partially raised to allow landscape and recreation areas to continue uninterrupted across the school’s grounds.

Green Shore

Panyu, Guangzhou

Located at the west end of Luoxi island, the project is the ideal place for luxury living as it overlooks one of the junction of magnificent Zhu Jiang River. Conceived as an ecologically conscious development, the integration of the landscape was key to the design of the scheme. Dense green coverage and large public spaces with verdant gardens provide a forest-like living environment on Luoxi island. A series of bright and airy stepping residential towers with large skygardens overlook a contemporary clubhouse and recreational facilities, as well as a school and kindergarten.

Enter the Dragon

Hong Kong

The concept of the ‘Dragon’ is derived from the historic Lung (龍 dragon) Tsun Stone Bridge (LTSB) and the Chinese Emperor Bing (Sung Dynasty) who once took refuge in the area, which together with eight surrounding mountains gives the name Kowloon (九龍 nine dragons) to the peninsular. Echoing the original purpose of the LTSB, the design will connect people to the new pier of the cruise terminal, a ‘gateway’ connecting the old to the new. By providing this vital link, the primary intention is to capitalize on the opportunity to create a major landmark of thoroughfare drawing and connecting people to the area as a destination of recreation, entertainment and learning facilities.

Regency Lakeview

Dongguan, Guangdong

The development of 128 deluxe villas sits on a narrow sloping site at the edge of Henggang Lake in Dongguan. To enhance the water quality of the reservoir, a 100 metre strip of land abutting the reservoir would be developed into a wetland park. This continuous strip of landscape belt at the edge of the reservoir was echoed by ribbons of landscape which were woven through the development. Careful positioning and elevation of the villas, which were grouped into a few layers separated by these ribbons, enabled the maximum number of villas to take advantage of expansive lake views.

Noble Hills

Zengcheng, Guangdong

This high-end development on a sloping site comprises more than 900 villas and a clubhouse surrounded by heavily wooded greenland. As the brief called for maximizing the buildable area of the site, extensive studies on how to best utilize the hilly environment through optimal site formation were carried out. Eventually, development of a series of different villa typologies provided reasonable interblock space, sufficient communal landscaping areas, and preservation of long view corridors for large swathes of the site.

Le Parc

Chengdu, Sichuan

Le Parc is a large scale mid-range residential development, located in the south of Chengnan district, Chengdu. The design of the apartment blocks is thoroughly modern, from the simple lines, large open windows, and the warm material color palette, to the large lantern-like penthouses and roof features crowning the towers. Hand-in-hand with the forward-looking contemporary aesthetic, the idea of introducing greener living is also a key theme for the development. Apartment blocks are located carefully so that each flat is ensured abundant amounts of sunlight. In the interstitial spaces created between each tower, pocket parks provide shady landscaped areas for residents and some even incorporate a running stream flowing between the buildings, providing unique views to each unit. Furthermore, the number of roads are minimized and consolidated to a limited number of main avenues, which allows extra pedestrian pathways and landscaping and enhances the idea of a greener and healthier neighborhood.

Regency Cove

Ma Qiao, Shanghai

Old Shanghai’s picturesque canal systems were the inspiration for this low-density villa development in the southwest part of the city, an up-and-coming high-end residential area. Aiming to create a unique selling point which would set the development apart from other competing luxury housing developments in the vicinity, WCWP envisaged a masterplan where the 192 two-and three-storey villas are arrayed along a complex system of scenic waterways. The arrangement allows residents to experience the full benefit of waterside living, with their own secluded private gardens leading down to the meandering canals. Comprehensive clubhouse facilities include indoor and outdoor swimming pools, a tennis court, a gym and spa, and food and beverage outlets

Regency Garden

Zhoupu, Shanghai

A new residential enclave made up of more than 700 houses surrounded by 37 mid-rise apartment towers, this development is located in the rapidly growing Pudong New Area, near Shanghai’s new Yangshan deep-water port. The local geography is characterized by the 60 kilometer coastline and a network of rivers running through the area. WCWP extended this local river network into the compound, weaving it between the houses and creating a verdant wetland landscape. Many of the row houses have outdoor gardens with terraces overlooking the riverways, along with balconies and patios which encourage outdoor living. Abutting the main road, a series of commercial and hospitality buildings act as a buffer to the residential areas. They house everything from shops to an exclusive kindergarten and the residents’ luxury clubhouse.

Regency Park

Pudong, Shanghai

A short distance from central Pudong’s forest of skyscrapers, Regency Park was the first in a series of adjacent developments for the same client. The project is an archetypal PRC residential compound, providing 367 luxurious villas and semi-detached houses along with a mix of ancillary facilities that included retail shops, a school, a hotel and an extravagant 12,000sqm clubhouse. The clubhouse provides residents with comprehensive amenities, including the requisite gym and function rooms along with a bowling center, a cinema, and a 70 meter long outdoor pool. Seven substantial communal gardens and two rivers form focal points and help to create discrete neighborhood identities, while providing residents with functional outdoor space in addition to their private gardens and spacious balconies. The villas were developed with more than 10 different themes, reminiscent of quaint colonial-period American university towns, and much of the development was planned with dedicated pedestrian areas free from cars, contributing to the small-town feel.

Maison des Artistes

Gubei, Shanghai

Comprised of 15 residential towers ranging from 12 to 28 floors, WCWP conceived of Maison des Artistes as the main hub of a relatively new, exclusive neighborhood of Shanghai. Half of the towers sit above a podium that includes a shopping center as well as the clubhouse and swimming pool for the residences. Two floors of the four-storey shopping center sit below ground, along with two additional basements that have car parking and service facilities.

The Grand Triangle

Zhoukou, Henan

ZhouKou is a piece of fertile land with thriving agriculture, bounded by the four cities of ZhouKou, Huaiyang and Xiangcheng. It is approximately 400 square kilometers in area and is home to more than 9 million people. Under the intentions of the ZhouKou Government, a feasibility study was conducted for the planning & development of the land bounded by the three cities, namely “The Grand Triangle”. In the proposal, it is emphasized that the development would base on respective advantages of individual towns, then gradually develops with a flexible system that is going achieve a balanced outcome. Fertile lands, rich culture and long history are the very best foundations and resources of the area, and therefore the scheme will be focusing on three main categories: Nature, history, and people. To facilitate co-development among three towns, a large infrastructure and transfer network will be set up, allowing effective manipulation of resources. By applying the idea of “linear-agro-industrial city”, the three towns will then be able to focus on developing into cultural district, tertiary industry district and linear-agro-industrial district respectively. Through expanding and flourishing the industries, the cities will be able to create more opportunities and attract more talents, capable of self-sustaining and thriving as a city.

Cape Coral

Panyu, Guangzhou

WCWP’s masterplan for this premium low-density residential development called for the distribution of modern detached houses along a series of waterways. Phase II of the project consists of 91 three storey luxurious houses with front and back yards and a private pier-like viewing platform on the waterways. In addition, nine blocks of 11-storey mid-rises were built, each housing two-level duplexes arranged in a creative vertical interlocking configuration to maximize views towards the majestic Pearl River. Phases III and IV aim to provide over 3,000 residential units in a mostly high-rise setting. Upon completion, the project will consist of 31 high-rise towers between 28 and 38 storeys and 6 mid-rises of 11-storey tall cradling a 5 hectares central park completed with greenery, pools, waterways, waterfalls, and other amenities. Also included in the programme are designs for a 20,000sqm school and kindergarten complex, a 2-storey, 90,000sqm basement car park, and 2,000sqm of supporting commercial facilities.

Residential Development at Waterloo Road

Kowloon, Hong Kong

This high-end residential development in Kowloon City comprises basement carparking, a 3-level podium for E&M plant rooms, clubhouse and swimming pool, and a 15-storey residential tower which features a deluxe penthouse unit with private outdoor jacuzzi on the top level. The project is anticipated to be completed in Q2 of 2021.

Proposed Residential Development in Kai Tak

Kai Tak, Hong Kong

The adoption of the ‘Y’ shaped tower plan allows for maximum efficiency with minimized corridor lengths and allows for double loading on the circulation. It also allows for over 75% of units to experience prime views. Plus the form of the building creates an inherently strong and stable structure. The provision of only two towers allows for the maximum permissible frontage with the minimum number of cores and escape staircases. The disposition of the two towers creating a crescent like massing with communal facilities that are easily accessed and universally enjoyed by all residents. Uninterrupted clear lines of sight, and openness of vistas whilst maintaining privacy is easily achieved with the fluid lines of the ‘Y’ shaped configuration. The maritime nature of the adjacent Bay informs and is referenced in the architectural language of the scheme. The larger units are given ship-deck like terraces, high ceilings allow French doors to open onto these terraces. The terraces can be landscaped and equipped with Jacuzzis. These special units are found at the top with Penthouse units, also at garden level and in the low-rise units. This architectural language is further developed for the clubhouse and communal areas.

Tropical Residence in South District

South District, Hong Kong

The massing of the purposed design arranges the permissible GFA in two equal size buildings or ‘houses’. Each house is then further subdivided into six, three storey residences. Access to each three storey residence is at ground floor through a shared common area reception ‘route/corridor’, thereby demonstrating the singularity of each house. Each house, being made up of four terraced residences and two semi-detached residences, is accessed from the north via internal roads. Vehicular and pedestrian access to the site retain their current point of entry, and rise gently to the current upper site platform. The prime nature of this site is determined by its elevation and the potential for uninterrupted south facing ocean views over the South China Sea. To fully exploit this potential all residence in both houses have been arranged on the southern edge of the slopping site. To facilitate this the cross section through the topography will be regularized, with a series of three stepped platforms for the lower clubhouse, the lower house with their carports and the upper clubhouse & the upper house with their carports. This cross sectional configuration allows ease of excavation in responding to the existing profile and enables all units at all levels to enjoy uninterrupted south-southeast facing sea views. This is further enhanced by the adoption of high performance floor to ceiling curtain wall. The Architecture, materials and landscape aim to create a simple, minimalist and tropical resort ambiance reminiscent of a spa retreat.

Proposed Residential Development in Mongkok East

Kowloon, Hong Kong

Rising on an infill site situated in a busy downtown area east of Mongkok, Kowloon, this premium residential development was designed to adhere to sustainability and green design principles. The podium consists of a multilevel car park that aims to elevate the residential tower to its maximum required height to take advantage of the view towards Kowloon’s famous “Kadoorie Hill”. Clubhouse facilities, outdoor landscaping, and a pool will provide residents an urban-oasis that provides relief from Hong Kong’s hustle and bustle lifestyle and dense urban landscape. With limited open green spaces, vertical green walls were integrated to the podium facade. Performing both aesthetically and environmentally, the plants work as a natural air-filtration system that improves the quality of air for building occupants.

Proposed Residential Development in Vietnam

Vietnam

Two optional studies were explored addressing the variety of unit sizes determined by the Developer. The designs address the need to accommodate maximum permissible development density, flexibility and sea views, whilst complying with onerous statutory limitations. The composition integrates the surrounding developments into this unique waterfront setting. It promotes an ease of pedestrian flow across the site with a seamless integration to the promenade. The podium free design allows for continuous double height piazza under all towers. Elevating the residential towers above this clear storey creates a focal point with a vibrant waterfront, encourages a diversity of outdoor activities, and enhances visual and air permeability. The creation of new piers and pontoons will further enhance integration of the waterfront. The designs, increase the linear meterage of sea views and soften the buildings’ profile by adopting either a curved ziggurat, or orthogonal ‘T’/ ‘L’ configuration. Terraced setbacks have been introduced to articulate and soften the building edges.

Residential Proposal in Shatin

Shatin, Hong Kong

This exclusive residential development provides a limited number of high-end apartments in a unique T-shaped mid-rise tower that is tailored to response to the site, surrounding topography, and to balance the need to abate traffic noise without sacrificing spectacular mountain view in the distant. Special units such as terraced penthouses and secluded garden apartments in the tower, and two types of detached houses on gardens terraced to afford external views, further add variety to the collection. A specially designed “garden lobby” blends manicured landscape with the tower main lobby, accentuating the sense of arrival in a one-of-a-kind countryside living.

Conway Mansion

Mid Levels, Hong Kong

Monterey

Tseung Kwan O, Hong Kong

Located behind a new waterfront promenade with unobstructed view, this extensive development aims to provide around 900 high-end residences with total floor area of about 66,000m2 split into mid-rise towers and private houses. The main bulk of the towers consists of “typical” flats in various configuration and sizes, topped by exclusive penthouses with private amenities, and lower floor units at the base of the towers with private terraces. The elevated houses either have panoramic views or an intimate view of the calming lagoon in the central garden. Each house is provided with its own front and back yards and an exclusive basement car port, and some houses have rooftop jacuzzis. A 2-storey retail podium anchors the towers and cradles a central landscape garden/lagoon with an underground clubhouse below. In response to the Lease’s non-building area requirement it is broken down into separate blocks to provide breezeways over the central garden, but continuity is maintained through a network of footbridges and elevated shopping streets on the podium’s external face. Together with G/F shops that open onto pavements at grade, this podium design brings the bustling commercial activities outside to invigorate the streetscape. Such urban consideration is sorely needed over the oft-done, but inherently detrimental, inward-facing podium and the inevitably deserted streets that surround it.

Residential Development at Sha Kok Mei

Sai Kung, Hong Kong

Crammed into a relative small (1.5 ha) and landlocked site with an edge of a cul-de-sac as its only street frontage, this Comprehensive Development Area (CDA) building project was complicated by multiple Lease and Planning requirements. WCWP developed a design which successfully navigated extensive non-building areas, building separation and breezeway requirements, and stepping building heights. In addition, consideration for noise mitigation, tree preservation, and environmental restrictions were necessary for the eventual Master Layout Plan and Section 16 approvals. The project is one of the earliest building designs affected by the contemporaneous implementation of new BD requirements such as Sustainable Building Design guidelines (SBD) on permeability, GFA concessions, and CoP Fire Safety 2011. Upon completion, the development will provide about 250 upmarket residences with a combined floor area of over 23,000 square meters, for young, discerning, and upwardly-mobile families in a relaxing resort setting further enhanced by lush landscaping, a well-equipped clubhouse, and basement parking.

Mayfair By The Sea

Tai Po, Hong Kong

Built on a complex combined site that was split down the middle by a Government-mandated non-building area, this development consists of more than 1,000 residences and connects the Providence Bay residential district to the north and Hong Kong Science Park to the south. Stretched along the Tolo Harbour promenade, the 15-storey towers and villas enjoy unimpeded views towards the protected Ma Shi Chau Geopark islands. A row of 5 and 6-storey townhouse-style blocks also sit behind the towers connection to the riverwalk. Upon entering, vehicles are generally to the basement to free up the ground for landscaping, pools, and pedestrian parks. Waterfront villas can be accessed by ascend directly from their basement private integrated spaces. Behind the villas at the center of the site sits the expansive clubhouse, which includes a kindergarten and a full-service spa, in addition to luxury facilities such as multiple pools, function rooms, a gym, and a basketball court. In recognition of the holistic environmental approach taken, the project made extensive use of precast facade panels, which were factory fabricated and delivered to site as completed units including windows and tiles, which helped to minimize wastage and greatly improved quality.

The Summit

Zengcheng, China

The Summit (Stage 1) is a large-scale residential development comprising more than 300 villas. Tempering pure modernist forms with elements of Art-Deco detailing, the villas’ unique arrangements provide access to outdoor space from every level of the two to four-storey homes, whether to stylish gardens with pools and water features, secluded balconies, or spacious terraces. A full-service clubhouse provides residents with the expected deluxe facilities.

Seymour

Mid-Levels West, Hong Kong

The Seymour is located in the central Mid-levels, one of Hong Kong’s traditional luxury residential precincts, and is a short walk from the Mid-levels escalator and Soho’s vibrant dining and entertainment scene. Tucked inside a dense urban fabric of high-rises and winding streets, this 43-storey tower, a collaboration with Arquitectonica, rises above the steep hillside to provide commanding views towards Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour. Amalgamating two adjacent lots meant the available gross floor area could be most effectively configured within the tight planning constraints. Staggered, angled balconies at the front and cladding panels at the rear give the tower a dynamic architectural presence, complemented by the pristine gray and white palette. A circular motorcourt provides a dramatic sense of arrival for residents, while the separate six-storey clubhouse evokes a European villa in the tranquil setting of Ying Fai Terrace and offers an elegant mirage pool, water garden, gym, spa, and other amenities.

Seasons Villa

Pudong, Shanghai

After completing the nearby Regency Park, designed by WCWP, the same client engaged WCWP to convert this existing group of villas, townhouses, mid-rise towers and clubhouse into an up-market development. Extensive research, supplemented with setting up a full scale mock up at site, into renovation techniques with minimum intervention on existing structures has been carried out specifically for this project. Environmentally friendly features, such as improving the insulation properties of the windows etc., have also been incorporated.

Jessville

Pokfulam, Hong Kong

Built in 1931, Jessville was declared a Grade III Historic Building in 2008, a status which meant that the Government would make efforts to preserve it. WCWP was commissioned by the owner to create a high-end residential development cum preservation project which maximizes the client’s development rights but at the same time preserves the existing mansion and gardens. In the original scheme, a pair of stepped towers allow spectacular sea views towards Lamma Island from the residential units while the extensively renovated Jessville is preserved as an elegant old-world clubhouse. In the current scheme, a single tower houses a small number of limited edition residences and the clubhouse, and Jessville itself is converted into four exclusive, utterly unique apartments. Discreet glass lobbies and a skygarden play off of the proportions and scale of the existing house and help to prevent Jessville from being overwhelmed by the new construction, and a sensitive palette of materials makes reference to the mansion without attempting to mimic it. The buildings overlook a terraced swimming pool area which steps down towards Pokfulam Road and sits above the parking floors, concealed behind flowing curves and cascading greenery that tie in to the adjacent contours of the wooded hillside.

Providence Bay

Tai Po, Hong Kong

Providence Bay and the adjacent Providence Peak site comprise thirty-one towers with more than 1,000 upmarket units. The pristine white towers step down from fifteen stories to ten stories as they approach the Tolo Harbour waterfront, and eighteen luxury private houses are nestled in clusters overlooking either the harbour or localized foci such as lap pools and lush landscaping. Each private house contains its own front and back yards, swimming pool, and an exclusive double car port. Spectacular penthouses with large setback terraces and private swimming pools crown the top floors of the sea front towers, while duplex “townhouses” form the base of the towers and make the most of private landscaped gardens and lawns. In the original winning proposal to an invited competition, WCWP strived for a delicate balance between privacy and openness, built-up forms and preserving nature. This concept was developed into an innovative masterplan, in conjunction with Foster + Partners, that affords maximum views towards serene Tolo Harbour while shielding against Tolo Highway traffic noise on the opposite side. The planning challenge of providing so many units on relatively small sites was made even more complex by stringent height restrictions. The developments are enhanced by nearly 7,000 square meters of residents’ clubhouses and amenities, which include indoor and outdoor pools, gyms, spas, restaurants, and extensive function areas. Designed to set a new standard in sustainable residential construction, the project made use of high quality pre-finished prefabricated external walls to minimize on-site wet trades and is certified BEAM Plus Platinum certification.

The Graces

Tai Po, Hong Kong

With a total floor area exceeding 30,000sqm, the residential development at TPTL 187 provides close to 200 high-end residences in nine mid-rise towers, and eight three-storey detached houses. Special residential units such as penthouses with private swimming pools crown the top floors, while duplex and simplex garden units with private landscaped lawns form the base of the towers. Each house contains its own front and back yards, swimming pool, and an exclusive double car port. Another 2,000sqm of floor area is set aside in the development for non-industrial and commercial use as required under the Lease Conditions. In addition to the two-level basement car park, the development is enhanced by a residents’ clubhouse providing such recreational facilities as indoor and outdoor swimming pools and lush landscaping in the surrounding open space. Creative master planning affords nearly all residential units a view towards Tolo Harbour, while their combined massing shields the traffic noise from Tolo Highway on the opposite side. This residential development champions the use of high quality pre-finished prefabricated external walls, and other environmental-friendly design solutions as registered in the “BEAM Plus” environmental assessment scheme.

Forfar

Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong

Located in the prestigious urban area of Kowloon Tong District, this 31-storey single tower development incorporates 43 high-end residential units, along with a thirty meter lap pool, clubhouse facilities and parking garage. The clubhouse includes fitness facilities and other amenities, as well as a swimming pool and garden spaces which spill out onto the podium roof. The concept of a “ribbon” element, developed in conjunction with Arquitectonica, wraps around the sculptural podium and the tower, tying together the various features and creating an interplay of the rectangular volumes. Inside the residences, floor to ceiling windows allow penetration of copious natural light and provide stunning views of the surrounding neighborhood. The luxurious status of the development is further enhanced by the incorporation of expansive duplex and triplex units at the top of the tower, which encourage indoor-outdoor living by opening onto wrap-around terraces and infinity pools with panoramic city views.

Horizon Cove

Zhuhai, China

Centered around a deluxe 13,000 square meter resort-style clubhouse and a landscaped man-made lake, this high-end development included nearly 1,500 units in mid-rise apartment towers and low-rise duplexes. Stunning views of the interior lake and out towards the surrounding hills and sea were emphasized with oversized floor-to-ceiling windows, while the integration of multiple terraces and balconies addressed the sub-tropical climate of the site. Horizon Cove was awarded The Ideal Residential Project for Resort by the Zhuhai Tourism Board and named as a Top 10 Zhuhai Residential Project in 2002.

The Sail at Victoria

Kennedy Town, Hong Kong

Occupying a hillside site overlooking the western mouth of Victoria Harbour, this 32-storey single tower development incorporates 95 high-end residential units, along with an infinity pool, clubhouse facilities and parking garage. WCWP developed a unique fin wall design to shield the residences from the noise of an adjacent government recycling transfer facility without compromising valuable sea views. The fins make reference to Hong Kong’s maritime history, with their subtle echo of the sails of junks and yachts whilst the expression of the gondola boom provides a fitting cap to the vertical form. All north-facing residences have panoramic harbour views towards Green Island and the Kowloon Peninsula, while smaller south-facing apartments enjoy tranquil green views of Mount Davis. The top five floors house spacious penthouses sheathed in full height glass curtain wall overlooking deep private terraces. Sustainability was a key driver of this project, and the building eventually earned BEAM Platinum certification. A skygarden above the podium allows air to move through the site, improving the area’s microclimate, and natural ventilation, energy efficient lighting and appliances, and low-flow plumbing all contributed to a reduced carbon footprint.

Grand Promenade

Sai Wan Ho, Hong Kong

Five contemporary residential towers, each with over 60 floors, contain over 2,000 upmarket apartments. A full clubhouse is located in the six-storey podium, in addition to retail and parking facilities. WCWP was instrumental in obtaining an additional bonus plot over the land’s original development potential through discussion with the government. WCWP also spearheaded the effort to use prefabricated building parts and systemic construction methods, making the Grand Promenade one of the tallest implementations of pre-fabricated technology in the world. In addition, WCWP proposed advanced environmentally friendly systems such as gray water recycling and a climate controlled public transportation interchange.

Sky Horizon

North Point, Hong Kong

Located in the Eastern Mid-levels, Sky Horizon’s 29 floors of high-end residences create a commanding presence over the surrounding neighborhood. The twin slab design for the two towers was devised to take full advantage of the magnificent view towards Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour. To maximize views and emphasize the sheet aspect of the architecture, curtain wall elements were introduced as a counterpoint to standard bay windows. The elegant curved glass wall of the podium clubhouse overlooks an infinity-edge swimming pool.

Kwai Shing Estate Phase 7

Kwai Chung, Hong Kong

Designed for the Hong Kong Housing Authority, this $1.2 billion composite development includes 14-storeys of affordable-housing units, offering a range of apartment sizes for low-income families. The lower 7-storeys of the building house elderly care units and a community center with associated offices. Careful consideration of residents’ limited mobility and sight informed many of the design decisions, as did the extensive managed-care service requirements. To offer views away from the neighboring housing estate high-rises and towards nearby greenery and country parks, WCWP developed a linear U-shaped plan, while a system of fin walls was implemented to shield the apartments against traffic noise from the adjacent highway. Prefabricated construction methods were adopted for the facades to keep costs down and maintain high quality standards.

11 MacDonnell Road

Mid-levels, Hong Kong

Located in the high-density central Mid-Levels and overlooking the Botanical Gardens and unimpeded city views beyond, the small site led WCWP to propose a single apartment floor-plan for this luxury tower. The use of high quality finishes, provision of a compact yet fully appointed clubhouse, and landscaped outdoor garden space at the podium created important selling points in such a dense neighborhood.

The Beverly Hills

Tai Po, Hong Kong

With over 535 houses arrayed on a lush peninsula overlooking the ocean, a key design element of this luxury development was the arrangement of the residences along a series of small winding streets, which provided access to sea views for all units. The intimate lanes also allowed the large complex to be subdivided into more comfortable neighborhoods, reminiscent of historic European city-centers. With 9,000 square meters of clubhouse facilities and covered play areas, The Beverly Hills is equipped with indoor and outdoor swimming pools, badminton courts, a go-kart track, and multi-purpose activity rooms.

Casa Marina II

Tai Po, Hong Kong

This exclusive low-rise residential complex of 106 four-storey duplex units raised on a pedestrianized garden platform that allows residents full appreciation of the serene natural setting without intereference from vehicular traffic noise. Private vehicular access and parking for each unit is provided on the lower level, with a grand entry piazza providing a vertical connection between the two layers. Many units were designed to have private front and rear gardens, multiple terraces, and private swimming pools.