Aedas is rebuilding Tak Shing House, and while construction is going on they designed a hoarding to create a clean passage way towards the MTR entrance in Central, Hong Kong. So instead of passing by a fence for a couple of years, instead we can walk underneath this designed canopy.
Project: 20 Des Voeux Road
Location: Hong Kong
Time: August 2020
Designed by Aedas
Photographed for Aedas
A while back, SCMP wrote an article about OMA’s Twin Tower design to be erected at the former airports in Hong Kong.
Construction has started in the meantime.
Developed for SOGO/Lifestyle International, the twin towers will form a gate and be placed in a half-circle orientation.
As you can see from these aerial photos, the towers will be the endpoint of a large central axis linking the entire area with the Kai Tak Sports center at the other end of the axis (currently also under construction).
Details, and the design are currently sparse, but it will undoubtedly become a new landmark for Hong Kong. Also, it will be OMA/Rem Koolhaas' first large building in Hong Kong.
As with many other projects, I will follow construction over the coming years and see how the twin towers will start to take shape.
2 years ago Tai Kwun Centre for Heritage and Arts opened in Hong Kong’s central district. It was a huge leap for Hong Kong that had a hard time embracing conservation and regeneration. Herzog & de Meuron was the lead designer and injected 2 new built volumes inside the overal masterplan. The 2 volumes were lifted of the ground to create a relation between outside and inside.
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Project: Tai Kwun Centre for Heritage and Arts
Location: Hong Kong
Time: spring 2020
Designed by Herzog & de Meuron
A few weeks back, the design of Zaha Hadid Architects’ design for 2 Murray Road was revealed. In the meantime, construction has started by first taking down the parking garage that occupied the site, and now the piling has started.
The 35 storey tower is to be built on the last prime real-estate plot in Hong Kong's CBD. Neighbouring iconic towers from I.M. Pei (Bank of China), Paul Rudolph (Lippo Centre) and Foster and Partners (HSBC headquarters).
I took a few photos of the empty site and will continue to follow the construction to see this landmark tower rise up and further shape Hong Kong business district.
Completed in 2018 as the first venue of Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Cultural District, the Xiqu Centre forms the gateway to the wider area. Connecting the usually bustling Canton Road with the future cultural area, the theatre offers a much needed public space in the large scale area created by lifting up the theatre.
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The building was designed by Revery Architecture Inc.
Structural engineering by Buro Happold
Façade engineering by Front Inc
Shop drawings and BD submissions by Inhabit
When I was still studying, Toyo Ito won a competition in the city I was studying at the time, Ghent. I remember going to a lecture of him where he explained the design for the Waalse Krook.
As with many projects in Belgium, they never got to actually building the winning design.
A few years later Toyo Ito proposed a very similar design for a theater half way across the world in Taichung, Taiwan.
Last year, I finally got to see that actual building in real, and it brought vivid memories back of my years in Architecture school. Even though the design isn’t completely same, different site parameters and all, but it does resemble the same ideas and fluid pockets that bring light and air into the midst of the buildings.
Project: National Taichung Theater
Location: Taichung, Taiwan
Time: November 2019
Designed by Toyo Ito
Over the past year I have been commissioned to photograph several boutiques across Hong Kong. The region has an abundance of beautifully designed shops both inside and outside. Always a pleasure to photograph these innovative design and often unique materials.
Photographed here are:
Above: Yohji Yamamoto boutique at K11 Musea at Victoria Dockside, Hong Kong
Below: Alexander McQueen boutique at K11 Musea at Victoria Dockside, Hong Kong
Throwback to end of 2019.
I was sent to Beijing to photograph megaproject Da Wang Jing designed by Aedas / Andrew Bromberg.
Remembering a few years back that this area was a massive construction site, it’s great to see that in the span of a few years an endless amount of towers are built with abundant green and parks integrated in-between.
Da Wang Jing is a development consisting of 5 towers, adjacent to a large park. I photographed the project over some very crisp winter days in Beijing. Cold but with beautiful Beijing winter colours. Good memories.
The photos were part of a photo-essay published in issue 24 of Design Anthology.
Project: Da Wang Jing
Location: Beijing
Time: December 2019
Designed by Aedas / Andrew Bromberg
Photographed for Aedas
With the launch of my new series ‘Eden of the Orient, I provide the opportunity to order large scale prints for your home or office.
Available in 2 sizes: 42x60 and 60x84 cm, these artworks are printed on Premium archival matte paper.
The prints can be shipped worldwide. Please have a look at the assortment of prints available on the webshop. And happy to answer any questions you might have for custom prints to make them stand out fully in your home or office.
Have a look at the printshop: HERE
About ‘Eden of the Orient’
EDEN OF THE ORIENT, HONG KONG
Hong Kong has a unique set of urban characteristics. Beyond what it is known for: a vertical city boasting the highest number of skyscrapers in any city around the world, it reveals a growing lack of space. Build on a set of islands, with mountainous terrain covering the majority of the available land, all that is left to build are tiny slivers of space where the ever-rising population needs to be housed. To solve the land shortage, the Hong Kong government has been building hyper-dense 'new towns'. The results are staggering and form the subject of this photo-essay. 2 seemingly completely unassociated elements converge in the hong kong landscape: high rise living with abundant green-topped mountains. It reveals a set of problems, and explains the deeper meaning of the social unrest currently overtaking Hong Kong: is there still a liveable future in Hong Kong?
Recently, I had the opportunity to photograph the interior design of high-end office building The Quayside in Hong Kong’s Kwun Tong district.
The interior design was handled by CL3, led by William Lim.
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Building: The Quayside
Location: Hong Kong
Time: July 2020
Designed by CL3
Photographed for CL3
