Hidden in plain sight, Mean Noodles is not hard to find once you enter the alley from New Market Street in Sheung Wan. Run by the OPENUU design duo Caroline Chou and Kevin Lim, Mean Noodles reflects their love of good design and their passion for delicious food.
Mean Noodles is envisaged as a casual noodle shop that specializes in traditional Southeast Asian cuisine with contemporary style. The entrance is emphasized with green stainless steel window frames and logo. The vintage metal look and concrete finish allows the noodle shop to blend harmoniously with its surrounding neighborhood.
HONBO, a top-rated Hong Kong-based hamburger restaurant has finally opened its doors at The Mills, formally known as the Nan Fung Cotton Mills, a site made rich by its history in textile manufacturing era and production. The revitalised landmark, allows visitors to rediscover Hong Kong’s manufacturing and trade roots, while honouring its legacy as a flexible space for textile education, research, and production as well as supporting retail and F&B businesses by local creatives and entrepreneurs.
Aedas completes new retail-entertainment icon for the young and young-at-heart
The Mongkok district in Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated areas in the world with busy streets and traffic round the clock. Aedas designed T.O.P This is Our Place to transform a 1980s ex-government complex into a modern office tower and retail-entertainment mall.
This flat is a typical Hong Kong 850sf 3-bedroom apartment. Through home meetings and questionnaires, the Designer got to understand the client's real life style and was able to come up with a suitable design for his new life style in Hong Kong.
To use the space and natural day light effectively, the Designer made the original kitchen into an open kitchen to allow sunlight into the apartment; the helper's suite is conveniently relocated behind the open kitchen. To make the whole rectangular shape appear seamless and clean, the Designer designed a feature storage and extended a rectangular opening in front of the entrance so that it becomes a natural foyer. Planting a tree at the entrance creates a lively and peaceful ambience for the home.
“The concept of the ‘river’ via a terrazzo floor finish is a circulation strategy that encourages a smooth flow throughout the open sociable spaces of the apartment while articulating the architectural volumes along its route to create private spaces.” – Kenny Kinugasa-Tsui
“To hit a tone of luxury with freshness, we carefully composed a materials palette using leather, terrazzo, metal, timber and soft muted paint colours. The overall feel is simple and elegant.” – Lorène Faure
“A co-working study is shared between the parents’ master suite and the son’s room suite that can be shared or partitioned. The son’s room suite also features a smart ‘living pod’ to accommodate sleep entertainment storage needs.” – Lorène Faure & Kenny Kinugasa-Tsui.
In the concrete jungle of Hong Kong, the new campus of the French International School stands as a vibrant green oasis in the dense city. 1100 pupils now enjoy a colorful, collaborative multicultural learning space, setting the scene for the working environment of tomorrow.
Just above street level in Hong Kong’s Tseung Kwan O district, sunlight meets the kaleidoscopic façade of the new French International School campus, spilling into the building through windows laid across a grid of 627 multicolored tiles. From the street, this colorful façade draws the eye to the institution’s new primary and secondary school – A vibrant, sustainable environment supporting a world-class multicultural education.
Bean Buro was tasked to design a new retail showroom office in Wong Chuk Hang in the Southside of Hong Kong Island for the fabric company Cetec to showcase high quality fabrics from their own as well as partnering brands. The main front of house customer space should store and display a large amount of products, to support the viewing of fabric samples for inspiration, with variety of seating areas for customers to work, inspect samples and carry out discussions with supporting staff. The project should also accommodate the employees to work in the same unit with a pantry, a meeting room, and the possibility of transforming the unit for large events.
Article source: Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners and Aedas
Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSHP) and Aedas has today unveiled their design for one of the buildings – “Passenger Clearance Building” (PCB) amongst the boundary crossing facilities at the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge Hong Kong Port which provides a new entry point into Hong Kong.
Excellence, quality and elegance: three values typical of Made in Italy, which Valextra has been representing and exporting worldwide. Through its timeless, elegant creations, shown in boutiques designed by the world’s most respected talent, the brand made discreet and refined luxury its signature style, becoming a global ambassador for aesthetic research and creativity. After Kengo Kuma’s redesign of the Milanese boutique, and the new flagship stores in London and Chengdu, Valextra picked Hong Kong as its next Asian destination. The project was entrusted to British designer Max Lamb, one of the most critically acclaimed designers worldwide.
With a population density of 130,000 people per square kilometre, Mongkok, a neighbourhood in Hong Kong, is one of the most densely populated places on the planet.
Executive Director Cary Lau drew inspirations from the city’s post-war structures to design The Beacon, setting an excellent example of contemporary interpretation of traditional architecture. In the early post-war years, it was common to create illegal iron balconies for residential units in Mongkok, to maximise view and area. The building reinterprets these structures in a modern way – the irregular protrusions create unobstructed views for each unit. Also inspired by the home gardens which people created on those iron balconies, a green wall on the podium façade is designed to further connect the building with the historical cityscape and offer more greenery at the pedestrian level.
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