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Grass
CEILING
K11 ATELIER
HONG KONG (CHINA)
P&T GROUP
THE WORLD AFTER — ACCORDING TO ADRIAN CHENG Here, Adrian Cheng directly addresses the new
It was in Hong Kong that billionaire Adrian Cheng, heir to a creative, entrepreneurial and disruptive generations.
family fortune built on a jewelry empire, erected his most What he calls the "creative vertical city" sets out
to reinvent the modern workspace by mixing art,
recent project: Victoria Dockside, the headquarters of K11 people and nature within an integrated ecosystem.
Atelier, an outsized and innovative concept created by the Plants are everywhere: 217,000 of them on the
same forty-something visionary. The program? façade and 13,000 making up the site's green
To revolutionize business through art and culture. spaces. In all, 90% of Sky Garden is covered in by
vegetation! The eco-responsible building — with
energy savings of more than 30% in line with the
EMSD code of the HKSAR government — is the first
in the world to attain every platinum level of the
Well Building Standard, the final Hong Kong BEAM
Plus New Building certification and platinum LEED
certification in the United States.
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DELABIE product installed:
BINOPTIC MIX cross-wall electronic basin mixer (Ref. 379MCH)