Ocean Terminal Extension by Foster + Partners
23/11/2017.
[Hong Kong] China
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Foster + Partners have just completed a new passenger terminal for Victoria Harbor in Hong Kong.
Ocean Terminal Extension by Foster + Partners. Image courtesy of Foster + Partners
Night overview. Ocean Terminal Extension by Foster + Partners. Image courtesy of Foster + Partners
Ocean Terminal Extension by Foster + Partners. Image courtesy of Foster + Partners
Interior view. Ocean Terminal Extension by Foster + Partners. Image courtesy of Foster + Partners
Ocean Terminal Extension by Foster + Partners. Image courtesy of Foster + Partners
Exterior detail. Ocean Terminal Extension by Foster + Partners. Image courtesy of Foster + Partners
Ocean Terminal Extension by Foster + Partners. Image courtesy of Foster + Partners
Section. Ocean Terminal Extension by Foster + Partners. Image courtesy of Foster + Partners
The expansion project of the Ocean Terminal, designed by Foster + Partners, in architectural terms, responds to the climate of the maritime, nautical and subtropical environment. Architecturally, the form of the building is a direct response to its climatic context. Its wide cantilevered terraces shade the lower levels, protecting them from the harsh tropical sun.
The building also offers retail, dining and lounge facilities, with a stepped outdoor seating area from which to sit and enjoy the view. The steps feature glass risers that admit natural light deep into the internal atrium. The connection to the existing terminal is seamless, and the design introduces a new central diagonal circulation spine that connects the roof level to the marine deck, both physically and visually, via a series of escalators cascading down through the public spaces.
The building also offers retail, dining and lounge facilities, with a stepped outdoor seating area from which to sit and enjoy the view. The steps feature glass risers that admit natural light deep into the internal atrium. The connection to the existing terminal is seamless, and the design introduces a new central diagonal circulation spine that connects the roof level to the marine deck, both physically and visually, via a series of escalators cascading down through the public spaces.
Description of project by Foster + Partners
A new gateway for thousands of international cruise liner passengers, the extension to the Ocean Terminal in Harbour City, Hong Kong has opened to the public. With stunning new outdoor spaces for dining and leisure capitalizing on the unmatched panoramic views of the harbor, this new expansion will be the best place for visitors to immerse themselves in a unique waterfront experience, creating a new landmark for Hong Kong. The terminal has the distinct advantage of being located directly opposite Victoria Harbour, boasting unrivaled views of Hong Kong’s iconic skyline. Standing right on the water’s edge visitors have 270- degree views of the city, from the Kowloon Peninsula in the North East to Causeway Bay in the South East.
This new public plaza – in the form of cascading terraces looking out towards the harbor – provides a new outdoor space for the people of Hong Kong and a distinctive gateway to the city for its visitors. The building embraces the city’s al-fresco dining culture, turning the undeveloped end of the cruise terminal into a vibrant entertainment hub right in the center of the city harbor.
Luke Fox, Head of Studio and Senior Executive Partner, said: “By introducing a new series of public spaces to the site, right down to the waterfront edge, we aim to create a ‘new living room’ for the people of Hong Kong and its visitors right in the heart of the city.”
Architecturally, the form of the building is a direct response to its climatic context. Its wide cantilevered terraces shade the lower levels, protecting them from the harsh tropical sun. The balustrades angled to tie in with the overall geometry of the building, extend downwards as louvered shading devices for the terrace below. The building also offers retail, dining and lounge facilities, with a stepped outdoor seating area from which to sit and enjoy the view. The steps feature glass risers that admit natural light deep into the internal atrium. The connection to the existing terminal is seamless, and the design introduces a new central diagonal circulation spine that connects the roof level to the marine deck, both physically and visually, via a series of escalators cascading down through the public spaces.
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Architects
Foster + Partners
Lead Architects
Luke Fox, Jonathan Parr, Perry I,p
Brian Timmoney, Stanley Pun, Lawrence Wong, Athena Chau, Won Suk Cho, Diana Lam, Kitti Wong, Marian Lee, Randy Liekenjie, Patricia Peter, Tsuyoshi To
Collaborating Architect
Ronald Lu & Partners
Collaborators
Structural Consultant.- Arup. Cost Consultant.- Rider Levett Bucknall. Mechanical Engineer.- J Roger Preston Ltd. Landscape Consultant.- LWK & Partners HK Ltd. Lighting Engineer.- RC Atelier Ltd. Façade Engineer.- Inhabit Group. Fit-out.- ARK Design. Traffic Consultant.- MVA Transportation
Main contractor
Ray On Construction Co. Ltd.
Area
9300.0 m²
Dates
2017
NORMAN FOSTER
Norman Foster is considered by many to be the most prominent architect in Britain. He won the 1999 Pritzker Architecture Prize and the 2009 Príncipe de Asturias de las Artes Prize.
Lord Foster rebuilt the Reichstag as a new German Parliament in Berlin and designed a contemporary Great Court for the British Museum. He linked St. Paul's Cathedral to the Tate Modern with the Millennium Bridge, a steel footbridge across the Thames. He designed the Hearst Corporation Building in Manhattan, at 57th Street and Eighth Avenue.
He was born in Manchester, England, in 1935. Among his firm’s many other projects are London’s City Hall, the Bilbao Metro in Spain, the Canary Wharf Underground Station in London and the renovated courtyard of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery in Washington.
In the 1970s, Lord Foster was one of the most visible practitioners of a high-tech architecture that fetishized machine culture. His triumphant 1986 Hong Kong and Shanghai bank building, conceived as a kit-of-parts plugged into a towering steel frame, was capitalism's answer to the populist Pompidou Center in Paris.
Nicolai Ouroussoff, The Times’s architecture critic, has written that although Lord Foster’s work has become sleeker and more predictable in recent years, his forms are always driven by an internal structural logic, and they treat their surroundings with a refreshing bluntness.
Awarded the Prince of Asturias of the Arts 2009.
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