BEAU has completed a high-rise at 39 King’s Road in North Point area of Hong Kong.
Developed by Henderson Land, the tower is striking exercise in restraint. A grid facade ensure the tower blends in the context, yet exudes quality.
Read more about 39 King’s Road: LINK
About BEAU:
Beau Architects was founded inHong Kong in 2014 by Charlotte Lafont-Hugo and Gilles Vanderstocken. the studio has since evolved into a larger team of various fields and origins, all contributing to a critical methodology and rigorous production. in addition, both founders are involved in the academic field as tutors and invited critics. Gilles Vanderstocken is teaching at Hong Kong polytechnic university (school of design) since 2015, leading 2 design studios per year while they collectively led a m.arch studio on adaptive reuse at Hong Kong university (faculty of architecture) in 2022.
Since the beginning, the agenda is based on the exploration of archetypes and the application of classical tools through an experimental approach. the projects, as different they can be, are obsessively articulated around the notions of
context, program, materiality and construction. highly explicit, the resulting body of work displays an expressive austerity questioning the relation between objectives and the means to achieve them, recently culminating in experiments in construction methods and adaptive reuse typologies.
(From the designer website)
