Kowloon Station, Hong Kong

The brief for the masterplan, 
as well as for the Kowloon
railway station, required
extensive mixed uses 
(1.1 million sq. ft) including 
residential, office, retail and 

hotel accommodation as well 
as public spaces, recreation 
areas and 22 towers (Seex and
Erickson, 2001). 
The premise behind the development was the establishment of a 
high-quality connected area, both locally  through pedestrian 
bridges, nationally via the train station and globally via the airport
(Terry Farrell and Partners, 1998). 
By 2010, this transport interchange would be ‘contained within 
a new town to sustain a population of 50,000’ (op. cit., p. 59).
 It forms part of a dense new city district instigated in 1989 by 
Hong Kong’s government to replace its congested airport at 
Kai Tak with a new £12 billion airport on the man-made island 
of Chek Lap Kok