• Green Building Award 2012 – Open for Nominations

    24 February 2012

    Green Building Award 2012 (GBA 2012) is now open for nomination, and the deadline is 29th February 2012 (Wednesday), before noon.

    As a major biennale event in Hong Kong and the region, GBA recognises projects that demonstrate elegantly, durably and/or innovatively the principles for sustainable built environment.  GBA 2012 is open to all relevant projects in Hong Kong as well as the Asia Pacific region, embracing the following four award categories: New Buildings, Existing Buildings, Research & Planning and Building Products.

    GBA 2012 is organized by the Hong Kong Green Building Council (HKGBC) with Professional Green Building Council (PGBC) to provide recognition to building-related projects with outstanding performance and contributions in sustainability and the built environment and also to transform the mainstream market towards wider adoption of sustainable planning, design, construction, management, operation, maintenance, renovation and decommissioning of buildings. 

    For more details, please visit: www.gba.hk

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    The 280-meter-tall Lumina Shanghai, developed by Henderson Land Group and designed by Gensler, is the tallest skyscraper in the Xuhui Riverside District.


    A sophisticated yet modern setting was derived by juxtaposition of Indochine-Vietnamese features and wood-fire inspired material palettes. Re-interpretation of the spatial order of a typical Indochine-Vietnamese mansion has been adopted to give hierarchy, layers and details to the space.

     
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