K11 ATELIER King’s Road is a 125-metre commercial tower in North Point, Hong Kong, designed to bring public space and extensive planting into a compact urban site.
Completed in 2019, the development combines Grade A offices with an exhibition hall, retail and dining spaces. The building is set back from its three adjoining streets, reducing ground-level site coverage to 52% and creating more space for pedestrians, planting and views through the site.
Rather than forming a conventional enclosed podium, the exhibition hall is raised approximately 9.4 metres above the ground. This opens the development at street level while providing a flexible cultural venue above. Its underside is covered by CEILINGREEN®, a planted installation that gives the podium the appearance of a suspended green box and brings landscape directly into the streetscape.
The office tower is articulated as a series of projecting and recessed volumes, reducing its apparent scale and creating terraces for vertical planting. Greenery is concentrated across the lower levels, where surrounding buildings restrict outward views, while the upper offices are oriented towards Hong Kong’s harbour.
The façade combines low-emissivity glazing, horizontal shading and variations in depth to reduce solar heat gain and reflected radiation while maintaining daylight within the workplace.
Landscape extends from the entrance and exhibition terrace through the office levels to the rooftop. The development incorporates approximately 6,700 square metres of greenery, equivalent to 220% of the site area. Around 90% of the main roof is landscaped as a shared garden with a jogging path, leisure spaces and an urban farm.
A specially designed windscreen improves comfort within the exposed rooftop garden. Photovoltaic thermal panels generate electricity and hot water, supported by rainwater collection, food-waste processing, demand-controlled ventilation, regenerative lifts and energy-efficient lighting and cooling systems.
By raising the podium, breaking down the tower mass and distributing landscape across multiple levels, K11 ATELIER King’s Road creates a more open commercial development within a constrained urban setting. The project has achieved LEED Platinum, WELL Platinum Precertification and BEAM Plus Provisional Platinum, recognising its combined approach to environmental performance and workplace wellbeing.
Project details:
Project: K11 ATELIER King’s Road
Location: North Point, Hong Kong SAR
Completion: 2019
Site area: Approximately 3,019 sqm
Gross floor area: Approximately 45,290 sqm
Building height: Approximately 125 metres
Architect: P&T Group
Building services, façade and sustainability consultant: Arup
Structural engineer: C.M. Wong & Associates Limited
Landscape architect: PLandscape Co., Ltd.
Interior designer: ESKYIU
Main contractor: New World Construction Company Limited
Environmental ratings: LEED Platinum, WELL Platinum Precertification and BEAM Plus Provisional Platinum
