Conversion of Chai Wan Factory Estate to Public Rental Housing

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In line with our ongoing student competition FuturArc Prize (FAP) 2022: Reinterpretation, we are highlighting previously published projects that follow the theme. Click here to learn more about the brief and to submit your entries for FAP! An adaptive reuse of heritage The historical Chai Wan Factory Estate (CWFE), which was granted Grade II Historic […]

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FGLA 2019 Merit: The University of Chicago Center in Hong Kong

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Nestled among tree canopies and verdant public hiking trails, the University of Chicago’s new Asian campus—The Hong Kong Jockey Club University of Chicago Academic Complex I The University of Chicago Francis and Rose Yuen Campus in Hong Kong—was inspired by the site’s challenging topography, panoramic views and remnants of its military past. The single, curvilinear […]

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FGLA 2019 Merit: Chai Wan Campus for the Technological & Higher Education Institute of Hong Kong (THEi)

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The campus lies at the geographical centre of a built-up urban district in the eastern part of Hong Kong Island. The site area is about 9,930 square metres, accessible by public transport and located within walking distance of mass transit railway stations. It abuts a future park to the southeast, a bus depot to the […]

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K11 Aterlier King’s Road

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As a commercial redevelopment project, K11 Atelier King’s Road addresses some of the common issues of office buildings, such as sub-par indoor environmental quality for human health; isolation from the local community; and underutilisation of space during non-working hours. The project is the world’s first building to have achieved the WELL Building Standard’s (core and […]

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Mount Pavilia

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Mount Pavilia overlooks Clearwater Bay on an elongated green site of 66,800 square metres, larger than the Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens. The project is filled with 31,500 square metres of green spaces in the form of landscaped parks and garden, almost a third of the entire site. The development’s greenery is designed to […]

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Public Housing, Hong Kong

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Conversion of Chai Wan Factory Estate to Public Rental Housing An Adaptive Reuse of Heritage The historical Chai Wan Factory Estate (CWFE), which was granted Grade II Historic Building status by the Antiquities Advisory Board, was converted into Wah Ha Estate. The conversion was announced in 2012 to increase and expedite the short-term public housing […]

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University library extension, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

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The University Library Complex consists of three independent buildings that were built decades apart—the original main library in the 1970s, its annex in the 1980s and the latest extension. This project involved the construction of a new extension and a spatial reorganisation of the two existing buildings to merge and transform into one coherent whole, creating […]

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