Kinwick Centre, in Hong Kong Central’s fashionable SoHo district, is most widely recognised for their well-known retail tenants – PURE Fitness and Marks & Spencer Food Hall. It’s also the Headquarters and Hong Kong studio of One Space, collocated with our sister company Principle One.

So when our landlord approached us to share our ideas and inspiration for how to reposition this already well-established landmark tower, we had some 12 years of tenants’ experience on which to draw.

The client’s Brief was to ensure that the visibility of their retail tenants remained at the forefront. But also that the site’s superb location at the epicentre of Hollywood Road & Central Escalator be more fully exploited and made more memorable to the hundreds-of-thousands of passersby, customers and tenants every day. In short, this was a landmark site in need of a modernised, yet humble, expression.

We were engaged to design and deliver a complete transformation of this property’s street-level expression & interiors – including facades, streetscape, entrance lobby & reception, delivery areas and lift cars. This required us to strip back the entire podium to its concrete skeleton before redressing it.