Urban regeneration - In search of 'Slow Living.'
Injecting new life and modes of living with a private residents club crowning the 27-storey Venture apartment overlooking the sea beyond Hong Kong's Kai Tak ferry terminal is an excellent opportunity.
The central idea was to combine a tropical vibe with the sense of being on a cruiser liner - strictly avoiding any sense of Bling - to create a coherent composition of interiors with meticulously tuned aesthetics and atmospheres.
The Club Cruiser looks like a spaceship landed on top of the building. Inside, looking out to the sea, you could imagine touching down somewhere like Phuket. The interiors give the feel of a private resort floating above Kai Tak, and the interiors are connected with nature rather than the city below.
The Club Cruiser is relatively narrow. To create a sense of greater width and to 'decompress' the internal spaces, large glazed up-and-over doors between the bar area and the pool are introduced to effectively create one big open-air social space.
The residents are encouraged and drawn to this rare top-floor clubhouse cruiser, where Slow Living is curated, away from the buzzing urban lives below.
Bio Cream is a multi-disciplinary architecture studio which designs interiors, facades, and buildings for international clients. The international members of the practice, led by award-winning architect Antony Chan, have in-house expertise in areas such as modelling, fabric and graphic design, and materials selection. “This multi-disciplinary mixture of creative people is crucial to Cream‘s design process,” he says. “The different backgrounds and skill-sets of my team mean that we work in a dynamic atmosphere, developing design ideas in highly detailed and original ways.”
Other prizes 2022 Finalist (Winners to be announced) - Club Cruiser, The Vantage, HK. IF Award Winner - Pavilion in the Park - Residents' Clubhouse, One Innovale LIV Awards Winner - Pavilion in the Park - Residents' Clubhouse, One Innovale LIV Awards 2016 Excellent Communications Design – Interior Architecture — Club Reach, Hong Kong German Design Award, Frankfurt 2015 Best of Year Design Awards – Visionary Suite, Hong Kong Interior Design Magazine, USA Best Leisure Interior Design – Club Reach, Hong Kong International Property Awards, Asia Pacific Shortlisted – Gallery Austin, Hong Kong World Interior News Annual Awards, UK 2014 International Design & Art Achievement Award – Antony Chan The 9th China International Architectural Decoration and Design Art Fair Designers of the Year – Antony Chan Interior Design Magazine, China 2013 Ten Most Influential Designers (Commercial Space Category) – Antony Chan The 8th China International Architectural Decoration and Design Art Fair 2011 Certificate of Excellence (Hotel Space) – Hotel De Edge, Hong Kong APIDA Successful Design Award – Times Square, Dalian, China China’s Most Successful Design Awards 2010 Successful Design Award – Emperor at 1881 Heritage, Hong Kong China’s Most Successful Design Awards Certificate of Excellence (Institution & Exhibition Space) – Yoho Midtown, Hong Kong Asia Pacific Interior Design Awards Outstanding Greater China Design Awards – Times Square, Dalian, China HK Art & Design Festival Best Interior Design – Times Square, Dalian, China International Property Awards, Asia Pacific Ten Outstanding Designers – Antony Chan HK Art & Design Festival 2009 Successful Design Award – HKTDC Design Gallery, Beijing China’s Most Successful Design Awards “Arrow” Ten Outstanding Showflat Design – La Rossa - Red, Hong Kong China Building Decoration Association 2008 Gold Medal (Retail) – Miele Lab, Hong Kong APIDA
