Have a look this amazing green-theme building in Hong Kong, China. It is 18 Kowloon East, a 28-storey mixed-use building with offices, retail spaces and a car park designed by Aedas. Seeking to balance out the heavily industrialized blocks making up the site, the design features a multi-storey green base that provides a ‘greening effect’ within the neighbourhood.
“The project is a 28-storey mixed-use building with offices, retail spaces and a car park. A design with efficient office floor plates and a rational box were requested by the client.
Kowloon Bay, once dependent on manufacturing, is undergoing transformation of rejuvenation. With the building located in a community with dense industrial blocks, instead of providing another office tower entirely wrapped in a coolly glazed skin, the design investigates the possibility of providing an environmentally sustainable design in such an industrial area. The target is to contribute a greening effect to the neighbourhood and enhance the quality of life for users in the building as well as the pedestrians on the street level.
With ‘green’ as the theme, the final design introduces extensive planting at the car park floors located at the lower portion of the tower. In addition to the visually greening effect to the neighbourhood, the planting also filters the air and improves the air quality within the car park. Hopefully, the suspended particulates in the air can be reduced and the design is able to provide car park users a more pleasant experience.”
It looks just impressive from whichever angle you see. Awesome green-theme architecture design, isn’t it?
18 Kowloon East by Aedas
Reference:Contemporist
