Nam Cheong Station Property Development
Hong Kong - China

Project: Residential complex
Numbers of Buildings: 22
Status: Proposed
Architect: Simon Kwang & Associates Ltd.

This is a larger residential project which is proposed for Nam Cheong Station. The complex will content 22 towers, 10 taller residential buildings and 12 low-rise buildings, mostly residential and retail. In the proposal the towers is situated on topp of a large retail, parking garage and office center.

http://www.simonkwan.com.hk/IMAGE/Nam2-01.jpg

http://www.simonkwan.com.hk/IMAGE/Nam3-01.jpg

http://www.simonkwan.com.hk/IMAGE/Nam1-01.jpg
Master plann.

Great! The well known and fantastic working HK-building concept! Tower design look well too, but a little difference in the towers should make the project even better.

Another wall by the harbor...

i hate it! block the sight seeing from the inner buildings

Each tower should face a different direction...

Having all facing the same direction and arranged in a straight line is far too neat looking...and like what others have said, it looks like a super ugly wall...variations in the height will help too...

I like it

"Copy and Paste" buildings...

"variations in the height will help too.."


Agreed, just take the Sorrento as an example, they're nothing if built in the same way like this.
The podium is quite interesting, but what's with those smaller residential blocks?
Hope it won't get approved....

Hong Kong is the land of scraper clones. Those local architects are either running on very tight budgets or very limited imagination. They're not really that ugly, but you ought not to build ten of them identically.

Well, the problem is that the number of architects in china as percentage of the population is 10% of the number in Europe, while they are designing 10 times more projects!

Hong Kong is the land of scraper clones. Those local architects are either running on very tight budgets or very limited imagination. They're not really that ugly, but you ought not to build ten of them identically.

kowloon is a very good example and new terratoies... thinkign of whampoa thats like 20 - 25 identical buildings with slight colour changes..

looks like even some people who have lived in HK can't tell why hk (or mainland china) are developed like that.
Why? because cities in South east Asia have very different urban planning than other western cities. In areas right outside (or even in) the very dense "core" urban area, lands slot are starting to get bigger and bigger. It is quite commom in HK that land are sold in about the same size of the WTC project in nyc (in terms of land area). That's why it is different than the grid system, where you can sell small piece of land one at a time. (thus, different developer, architect, height, design, uses...) (area like Wanchai, TST, Mongkok, Central...). Why HK uses these "large land" urban planning? I think anyone who have been to residental areas anywhere in the world where it adpot the grid system. What's wrong with it? coz a lot of the area really has no life. Just row after row of similar building, row after row of similar street. What HK needs (especially when it is short of land) is to develop a self-sufficient residential community where it is literally a city within a city. Student can go to school in there, people can shops in the shopping mall, play in the playground, relax in parks, use the club facilities. People can even work in there. It also helps to fit HK's nodal urban planning strategy where at least 5 of these big estate form one major "node" where it will have a subway station in the center. It is a LOT more efficienct planning than grid system.
Actually, this kind of urban planning is virtually non-existent in America. The closest planning that i can think of is college campus in US.

Well, I was referring to something more like a decorative element to the buildings to stylise them and have minor differences so that the towers aren't exactly identical. Run a large arch across the rooftops, make them different heights, give the different buildings varying themes, whatever. A small difference between buildings gives a wholly different impression--that exterior appearance isn't just an afterthought.

I do realise and appreciate the intention of the development style--Hong Kong's recent MTR stations (Tsing Yi's Maritime Square, Kowloon's Union Square, Hong Kong's IFC complex, etc.) are daring applications of this "semi-urban node" type of concept.

For me, I'd still like to see more people out on the streets, though. Gives the city more "life," like the Mong Kok area (too bad the old buildings look so crummy).

Nam Cheong Station Property Development
Hong Kong - China

Project: Residential complex
Numbers of Buildings: 22
Status: Proposed
Architect: Simon Kwang & Associates Ltd.

This is a larger residential project which is proposed for Nam Cheong Station. The complex will content 22 towers, 10 taller residential buildings and 12 low-rise buildings, mostly residential and retail. In the proposal the towers is situated on topp of a large retail, parking garage and office center.

http://www.simonkwan.com.hk/IMAGE/Nam2-01.jpg

http://www.simonkwan.com.hk/IMAGE/Nam3-01.jpg

http://www.simonkwan.com.hk/IMAGE/Nam1-01.jpg
Master plann.

It looks like there is a row of some small blocks of apartments closer to the seaside. That's nice, except that they are just 10 meters away from the superhighway, the West Kowloon Expressway. Even worse than 匯景花園in Lam Tin, the highway is open and uncovered.

Whoa this is very old news!