Foster + Partners’ Hong Kong office is located on the 30th floor of Tower 2 at the Lippo Centre, a landmark development in the city’s central business district. The open plan office space enhances the team’s collaborative ethos and overlooks Victoria Harbour.
Foster + Partners has been working in Hong Kong since winning the competition for the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank Headquarters project, which began in 1979. The practice’s design completely reimagined the office tower, addressing the nature of banking in the city and expressing it in built form as a series of flexible village clusters. This was followed by another milestone project – Hong Kong International Airport – which is one of the world's largest airports and most ambitious construction projects of modern times.
In more recent years, the practice has completed a range of projects in Hong-Kong including The Murray, a luxury 336-room hotel within an existing 1970s office building; the Ocean Terminal extension, a new gateway to the city for thousands of international cruise liner passengers; the Kai Tak Cruise Terminal, which established Hong Kong as the preeminent regional hub for cruise liners; and the masterplan for West Kowloon Cultural District, a major centre for music, performance and visual arts on a dramatic harbour-front site.
