Adrian Cheng & James Corner are redesigning Hong Kong
The K11 Musea retail complex forms part of the Victoria Dockside development
Entrepreneur Adrian Cheng and landscape architect James Corner are transforming Hong Kong with a multi-billion dollar development plan. Leading architecture writer Mark C O?Flaherty reports
Every city wants its own High Line. Designing an urban park that sits cheek by jowl with super-prime real estate is a difficult task, and the benchmark is the 1.45-mile-long repurposed structure that runs north from the once run-down ? nay, degenerate ? Meatpacking District in Manhattan. So, when Adrian Cheng (son of Hong Kong billionaire Henry Cheng and executive vice chairman of real-estate behemoth New World Development) was looking for someone to transform the world-famous but tired TST waterfront area of the Kowloon Peninsula into a 21st-century destination for recreation, he turned to James Corner of Field Operations. Corner is perhaps the world?s most celebrated landscape architect right now ? the man behind the engineering of the High Line, as well as the new Domino Park on the Williamsburg waterfront in Brooklyn. After six years of work, Kowloon?s Victoria Dockside ? which has already taken significant shape and is scheduled for completion late next year ? looks set to offer a new gold standard for urban planning. Follow LUX on Instagram: the.official.lux.magazine
?The High Line was an epic success,? says Corner, without any hint of a self-congratulatory tone. ?It is much-loved by people from all over t...
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