Taikoo Place

Hong Kong | 2015-2024

Taikoo Place, one of Hong Kong’s most prominent business hubs, features an inclusive open space with lush native vegetation and sculptural water features as part of a major transformation project. Gustafson Porter + Bowman developed both landscape masterplan and detailed design around two new high specification office towers with the intent to significantly enhance the public realm and overall experience for the office workers and wider community.

The 1.56ha landscape consists of a sequence of gardens and squares ranging from small intimate places around water to gather with friends and colleagues, to active street promenades suitable for events such as jazz concerts and outdoor markets. The design for the largest green space, Taikoo Square, creates a series of terraces and is defined by two large longitudinal pools connected by a cascade and a small water table that references the history of Quarry Bay as a working dock.

Lush native planting is arranged at different heights. Light canopy trees including palms allow sunlight to the understorey planting. To promote biodiversity and raise public awareness of Hong Kong’s heritage of Fung Shui woodlands, many of the trees at Taikoo Place are native woodland species, grown specifically for the project in a specialist nursery.

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