Goodbye 2024👋🏻 Hello 2025!
2024 was a new chapter for us as we started the year with a new studio and @commaa.hk . Thank you to all collaborators for your unwavering support and for entrusting us in your projects. Kudos to all LAABers for your creativity, positivity, and solidarity while braving the challenges! Onwards and upwards team!
Treasure the love that surrounds us and the peaceful joy found in togetherness. Wish you a warm and cozy holiday. Merry Christmas to you and yours. ✨
—LAAB & commaa
The ground-floor of @longbridgecafe serves as a public interface. A whimsical Captain Leo is there to greet you, inviting you to enjoy specialty coffee, explore an art exhibition, or shop for bespoke lifestyle goods. Floating digital displays, inspired by a stock market heat map, reimagines cold financial data as fluid media art.
The first floor is a collaborative space bathed in natural light, designed to bring both new and experienced members together. The versatile layout and bespoke, brand-coloured furniture are perfect for hosting events like investment academies. The cantilevered glass corner on this floor, resembling a ship’s bow, offers a panoramic perspective of the iconic Peninsula Hotel and Space Museum. 📸@stevenkophotography@xinxin83@blowhongkong@lightoriginstudio
Recently we transformed @longbridgehk investing app into Longbridge Café, integrating stock trading with art, tech, coffee, and beer. Anchored at a prominent corner in Tsim Sha Tsui, the 8,500-square-foot café spans three levels. Its striking facade features three monumental yellow columns that suspend the first floor like a bridge, while a 30-meter-wide glass wall opens the interior to the city, as a nod to Longbridge’s commitment to openness and transparency.
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Thank you HKIA Awards for recognizing the Tsui Ping River Revitalization project!
This urban architecture has transformed a drab drainage channel into a vibrant river park. We are proud of the improvement it has made, not only to rainstorm flood control, but also to local ecology, biodiversity, and the Kwun Tong community, successfully bringing our city closer to nature.
This award is shared with a fantastic team, including our clients DSD & EKEO, our collaborators Atkins, Kimhung Design, Inverse Lighting, Spawton Architecture, SCENIC, and Build King–Richwell Civil Joint Venture, and all LAABers who have contributed to the project big and small.
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Hong Kong Eco-Pavilion is now exhibiting in Tokyo! This project is selected by the Japan Good Design Award jury as "My Favorite Design 2025, " recognising its contribution to exhibition design through sustainable innovation. Come visit GOOD DESIGN Marunouchi from Oct 29 to Nov 9, you will see our design process and prototypes along with other jury's selections!
My Favorite Design: Jury Selections from the Good Design Award 2025
Dates: Period 2 “Inspiration” October 29 - November 9
Venue: GOOD DESIGN Marunouchi Shin-Kokusai Building 1F, 3-4-1 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
Website: /exhibition.html
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More good news from Japan 🇯🇵 Our Hong Kong Eco-Pavilion, Maison & Objet, Paris has received The Japan Good Design Award 2025. It has also been selected as "My Favorite Design 2025” by the jury. Thank you jury Amonthep Kachanonda for recognising this project's contribution to rethinking exhibition design through sustainable innovation. Thank you, we are truly honoured!
This project will be exhibited in "My Favorite Design: Jury Selections from the Good Design Award 2025" from Oct 29 to Nov 9 (Period 2). Check out more details from below!
My Favorite Design: Jury Selections from the Good Design Award 2025
Dates:
Period 1 “Spark” October 15 - 27
Period 2 “Inspiration” October 29 - November 9 (where this project will be exhibited)
Period 3 “Delight” November 11- 23
Venue: GOOD DESIGN Marunouchi
Shin-Kokusai Building 1F, 3-4-1 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
Website: /exhibition.html
Jury's comments:
"I support the use of upcycled materials in design development to demonstrate how they contribute to sustainability and reduce plastic use through creativity. This approach is more effective than many conceptual
ideas because it is exciting, innovative, and practical. It shows that sustainable design can be realistic and functional, not just theoretical. Using upcycled materials also promotes environmental responsibility and can inspire others to adopt eco-friendly practices.
Overall, it’s a meaningful way to combine creativity with sustainability, making a positive impact on both the environment and design innovation."
Revitalisation of Tsui Ping River has just received The Japan Good Design Award 2025! This award is a huge encouragement to our project team, including our client DSD, our collaborators Atkins, @inverselighting@kimhungdesign , @spawtonarchitecture , and SCENIC. We are grateful to the jury, who recognized the project's contribution in transforming a drab drainage channel into a waterfront landscape, and the improvement it made for the ecology, biodiversity, and the community, bringing our city closer to nature.
The global climate crisis is here: melting icebergs, California wildfires, and now, back-to-back typhoons hitting our city. ⛈️
The Revitalization of Tsui Ping River is our commitment to building urban resilience. It’s more than a facelift; it’s future-proofing our city. The infrastructure is specifically designed to withstand extreme weather, safeguarding our city from heavy rain and flooding.
Behind this critical infrastructure is a group of dedicated experts who work tirelessly during typhoon season to monitor and protect our homes and livelihood. Grateful and honored to work alongside these experts in the Tsui Ping River project!
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Blending art, nature and technology, “Wander Rings” is a lighting art installation we designed for Tsui Ping River to create a vibrant and dynamic neighborhood. Responsive to viewers’ movement, they unveil the symbol of infinity, evoking limitless possibilities. After sunset, the ambient light show and flowing water create a captivating dance, casting mesmerizing hues upon the river—an enchanting convergence of innovation and artistic expression.
We worked closely with @kimhungdesign to create signage, balustrades, and thematic manholes to bring Tsui Ping River’s new and vibrant branding to life. The pedestrian paths are paved with bricks in a gradient of colors, forming vibrant pathways that connect the neighborhoods.
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