Winner of AIA Hong Kong 2025 Honor Award (Architecture) in the Open International category and Sustainability Award - "Cascading Pixelated Plaza Turns Lai Chi Kok Podium Into Public Oasis"
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The jury recognized this integration as ‘a new trend in Hong Kong…where people are treating the ground level and bottom parts of towers as public open space for the community.’ COLLECTIVE Studio’s design demonstrates how privately owned commercial developments can deliver genuine community infrastructure through thoughtful programming and parametric precision.
The design team, led by COLLECTIVE for podium architecture, landscape, interiors, and auditoriums, worked with Rocco Design Architects as lead architect for the twin towers. As one juror observed, the “lead architect welcomed a young architecture firm to design the public space—demonstrating professional generosity” in a cross-generational collaboration, put together by the client, between a long-established Hong Kong firm and a 10-year-old international studio based in Hong Kong.
Client: New World Development
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Design: COLLECTIVE (Podium Architecture, Landscape Design, Interior Design)
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Associate Architect: Rocco Design Architects (Twin Towers)
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Photography: Tian Fong Fong, 1km Studio, Ivan Santoso and COLLECTIVE
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Gratitude to the 2025 Jury Panel:
Prof. Donald Choi
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Susannah C. Drake
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Prof. Mark Lee
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J Lee Rofkind
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Shirley Surya
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Read the Juries' thought, link in bio.