Hope it's just a vision...
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HONG KONG PSi TOWER by MICHAEL YOUNG
September 20th, 2010

British Hong Kong based designer Michael Young has been commissioned to develop building project strategies for Wanchai Cultural District. The first concept PSi Tower has been developed as an office complex with luxury apartments for business users and executives overlooking Kowloon district. Conceptually the project, based visually on the essence of ancient Chinese building techniques, has been carried forward into the 21st Century with its multi facetted surfaces that change according to weather and light conditions.

The 5-hectare site will include a ground level internal atrium for public art and pedestrian use, containing outdoor restaurants with outdoor seating. The upper central interior section also boasts a native plantation that encloses an outdoor theatre area.

Having lived in Hong Kong for several years, Young wanted to design a building that could be both understood by local residents and also be compelling on an international platform. Young, who has humorously stated he wanted to pickle Fosters Gherkin at the unveiling in Wanchai cultural centre today, admitted it was a great pleasure to work on such a large scale after watching great architects challenge the furniture industry over the years, and that finally the industry was becoming symbiotic a natural evolution of technology and engineering.

Detailed information on the project will be unveiled at presentation and public exhibition during 100% Design Shanghai in early November at Nanjing West Road.

Project: PSi Tower Hong Kong
Client: PSi Partners & PC Building Corp China
Design: Michael Young Projects Ltd
Place: Hong Kong, China 2010
Planning and consultant: Porbic Partners
Local Architect: Arnold Woo & Partners

Apparently the Michael Young is a furniture designer.

Something this unconventional should go to Kowloon, where a new skyline is rising. HK Island skyline is too symbolic and this would look out of place.

This thing should be in cities like Dubai IMO...

never gonna happen

No way that thing is going to stand at the waterfront.
In fact, the harbourfront planning has turned down proposals with any skyscraper on the newly reclaimed land.

Interesting but its impact would be less being next to IFC!

Look so out of place, does not belongs to HK.

In fact, the harbourfront planning has turned down proposals with any skyscraper on the newly reclaimed land.

Good idea, any skyscrapers near the waterfront would ruin the skyline. It is just way to close to the IFC!

Good idea, any skyscrapers near the waterfront would ruin the skyline. It is just way to close to the IFC!

Ruin the skyline? That's too extreme. It all depends on what you build and how. This proposal would definitely ruin the skyline, but not any skyscraper.

In fact I've always found the IFC a bit lonely it its corner. It feels like it misses a link between its 417m. and the surrounding +/-200m. buildings. A neat and slim 300m. skyscraper would just do great.

I'd support this building if it's lying down sideways.

Ruin the skyline? That's too extreme. It all depends on what you build and how. This proposal would definitely ruin the skyline, but not any skyscraper.

In fact I've always found the IFC a bit lonely it its corner. It feels like it misses a link between its 417m. and the surrounding +/-200m. buildings. A neat and slim 300m. skyscraper would just do great.

Yeah it might ruin the skyline, but there are many iconic towers lying next to the 2IFC.

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I'd support this building if it's lying down sideways.

It would still be very big.

It's funny how Hongkongeses are conservative about their skyline now. You may have the best one now, but if you want to stay n.1, you'd better not refuse every new skyscraper proposal.

And to go beyond the question of n.1 etc, I'd say that a skyline is attractive when it keeps on changing! Adding new buildings, if they are well choose, makes the already existing ones look even better!

It's funny how Hongkongeses are conservative about their skyline now. You may have the best one now, but if you want to stay n.1, you'd better not refuse every new skyscraper proposal.

And to go beyond the question of n.1 etc, I'd say that a skyline is attractive when it keeps on changing! Adding new buildings, if they are well choose, makes the already existing ones look even better!

So are you saying that the PSi tower should be approved?!:nuts:

What I would like to see is some new buildings on the Kowloon side. It seems like the Hong Kong Island is already saturated.

It's funny how Hongkongeses are conservative about their skyline now. You may have the best one now, but if you want to stay n.1, you'd better not refuse every new skyscraper proposal.

And to go beyond the question of n.1 etc, I'd say that a skyline is attractive when it keeps on changing! Adding new buildings, if they are well choose, makes the already existing ones look even better!

It is not about only tall skyscrapers these days. We welcome proper designed and planned buildings that match the scale of its surrounding, and should not have negative environment impact to the community as a whole.

Another monster building like this at the waterfront doesn't help to improve the skyline, but ruin it instead.

So are you saying that the PSi tower should be approved?!:nuts:


I really hope that this project won't be approved (but I'm confident it won't), and I wrote it!!

Was my post ambiguous? When I say that "you'd better not refuse every new skyscraper proposal", it means that you should not refuse them systematically, but choose case-by-case and accept the ones that fit in the skyline!
To talk like a formal logician, my sentence means "It is not the case that you should refuse all proposal" , which is absolutely not equivalent to "You should accept all proposal"!!!

What I would like to see is some new buildings on the Kowloon side.

I agree.

When I say that "you'd better not refuse every new skyscraper proposal", it means that you should not refuse them systematically, but choose case-by-case and accept the ones that fit in the skyline!
To talk like a formal logician, my sentence means "It is not the case that you should refuse all proposal" , which is absolutely not equivalent to "You should accept all proposal"!!!


Definitely agreed. In fact, I believe that for every major skyscraper proposal, there should be something like an election to see if the people actually like it.

But that won't happen. The Government is getting pussy and backs off every time some environmentalist steps up...:ohno:

Definitely agreed. In fact, I believe that for every major skyscraper proposal, there should be something like an election to see if the people actually like it.

But that won't happen. The Government is getting pussy and backs off every time some environmentalist steps up...:ohno:

Technically, that's what the Town Planning Board and District Board do, and there are also public hearing consulting the public opinion on project. But these public meetings are either not advertised and people don't know about them, and so the results was so called "consulted;" or they are being held in the day time people can't go to say their opinion.

When I say that "you'd better not refuse every new skyscraper proposal", it means that you should not refuse them systematically, but choose case-by-case and accept the ones that fit in the skyline


I agree.

And in these case, it is refused.