Green as a theme

Name: 18 kowloon east
Architect: Aedas
Location: Kowloon Bay, Hong Kong, China
Size: 32,400 sq m
Status: Completion 2010

Aedas shared with us their design through a 28-storey mixed-use building which includes housing, offices, retail spaces and a car park. A design with efficient office floor plates and a rational box were requested by the client. With the edifice located in a municipality with dense industrial blocks, instead of providing another work tower entirely wrapped in a coolly glazed skin, the design investigates the possibility of providing an environmentally sustainable form in such an industrial property.



Kowloon Bay, once dependent on manufacturing, is undergoing transformation of rejuvenation. The target is to advertise a greening effect to the neighborhood and enhance the quality of life for users in the building being well as the pedestrians on the street level. With ‘green’ as the theme, the definitive design introduces extensive planting at the car park floors located at the lower element of the tower. In addition to the visually greening effect to the neighborhood, the planting also filters the air and improves the quality within the car park. Hopefully, the suspended particulates in the air incumbency be reduced and the design is able to provide car park users a more pleasant experience.