Hysan Place () is a shopping centre and office building at 500
Hennessy Road,
Lee Garden
Lee Gardens () is a hill south of East Point and west of Causeway Bay on the Hong Kong Island in Hong Kong, approximately the area between Percival Street, Hennessy Road and Leighton Road. It was also known as Jardine's Hill or East Point Hill ...
,
Causeway Bay
Causeway Bay is an area and a bay on Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, straddling the border of the Eastern and the Wan Chai districts. It is a major shopping, leisure and cultural centre in Hong Kong, with a number of major shopping centres. Th ...
,
Hong Kong
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. It was developed by
Hysan Development Company Limited at the former site of and was designed by international architecture firm
Kohn Pedersen Fox
Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF) is an American architecture firm that provides architecture, interior, programming and master planning services for clients in both the public and private sectors. KPF is one of the largest architecture firms in ...
. It was opened on 10 August 2012.
The building
Hysan Place is a 40-storey retail/office building. Other facilities include a four-storey car park and retail basement, covering a total gross floor area of approximately and a site area of around . Construction work is carried out by
Gammon Construction
Gammon Construction Limited is a Hong Kong construction and engineering contractor headquartered in Kwun Tong, Hong Kong. In addition to local construction projects, it also involved in construction and engineering various projects in China ...
. The contract value is HK$1.5 billion (US$193 million) and was set to complete in November 2011. Hysan Place is the first Hong Kong building that has achieved pre-certification of the highest Platinum level under Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) of the
U.S. Green Building Council
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), co-founded by Mike Italiano, David Gottfried and Rick Fedrizzi in 1993, is a private 501(c)3, membership-based non-profit organization that promotes sustainability in building design, construction, and op ...
(USGBC).
Hysan Place comprises a 40-storey mixed-use tower that provides panoramic views. There are 15 levels of office space and some 17 floors of retail outlets, totalling 710,000 square feet. It is connected to the public transport network and is directly linked
to the MTR's
Causeway Bay station.
The shopping centre
The development includes 42,000m
2 of retail space spread over 17 levels. The retail interior was designed by
Benoy
Benoy is an international firm of architects, master planners, interior architects and graphic designers working from design studios in the United Kingdom, Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Beijing. The company is primarily known for its glob ...
using a monochrome palette and organic geometric architectural lines.
Eslite
Eslite Bookstore () is one of the largest retail bookstore chains in Taiwan. It also offers one of the largest selections of English-language publications and translation materials in Taiwan. Its headquarters is in Xinyi District, Taipei.
Br ...
book store is reported to be renting 40,000 sq ft or 3 floors of retail space at Hysan Place.
American fashion brand
Hollister California opened its first store in Hong Kong Island in a space in the mall, at a monthly rent of over HK$1 million, or HK$50–60 per sq ft.
File:Hysan Place Level 4 201208.jpg, Level 4 Shops
File:Hysan Place Level 4 Garden 201208.jpg, Level 4 Garden
File:Hysan Place Level 6 Garden of Eden 201208.jpg, Garden of Eden in Level 6
File:Hysan Place eslite Level 9 2012.jpg, Eslite Bookstore in Level 9
File:Hysan Place Kitchen 11 View1 201208.jpg, Kitchen Eleven Food Court in Level 11
Office tenants
Hysan Development Company Limited announced the first office tenant for Hysan Place as
KPMG
KPMG International Limited (or simply KPMG) is a multinational professional services network, and one of the Big Four accounting organizations.
Headquartered in Amstelveen, Netherlands, although incorporated in London, England, KPMG is a net ...
, the international accounting firm on 13 June 2011. KPMG has signed a nine-year lease for the 20th to the 25th floors of the building, taking up an area of approximately 80,000 sq. ft.
Hysan Development Company Announces KPMG As Its First Office Tenant At Hysan Place
Hysan Press release. 13 June 2011.
The office is located on floors 20 to 38. B1 floor and underground with four double-deck lifts to 9 to 10 floor transfer lobby. But the office rents far behind the mall, initially only 40%. Existing tenants include one of the four largest accounting firms KPMG
KPMG International Limited (or simply KPMG) is a multinational professional services network, and one of the Big Four accounting organizations.
Headquartered in Amstelveen, Netherlands, although incorporated in London, England, KPMG is a net ...
, international leather goods Gucci
Gucci (, ; ) is an Italian high-end luxury fashion house based in Florence, Italy. Its product lines include handbags, ready-to-wear, footwear, accessories, and home decoration; and it licenses its name and branding to Coty, Inc. for fragranc ...
, McCann Erickson, Content Delivery Network
A content delivery network, or content distribution network (CDN), is a geographically distributed network of proxy servers and their data centers. The goal is to provide high availability and performance by distributing the service spatially rel ...
and Akamai and the US Recruitment Social Platform LinkedIn
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.
There is a small courtyard in the middle of the tallest two-storey office, named "Hysan Farmland", covering an area of about 5,000 square feet to promote a balanced culture of life. A variety of organic vegetables and herbs are planted and plans to organize workshops every year to allow business participants to experience the farming process. And the grass and green walls in the courtyard can relieve the heat island effect.
Awards and honours
* Green Building Award: Building Under Construction, Merit Award
* HKGBC, Gold, Best Mixed-Use Development (2012)
* MIPIM Asia, Global Awards for Excellence (2012)
* Urban Land Institute (2013)
* World Architecture Festival, Shortlist for Best Shopping Center (2013)
See also
* List of shopping centres in Hong Kong
* List of tallest buildings in Hong Kong
Hong Kong has over 9,000 high-rise buildings, of which over 4,000 are skyscrapers standing taller than with 517 buildings above . The tallest building in Hong Kong is the 108-storey International Commerce Centre, which stands and is th ...
References
External links
Hysan Place at Lee Gardens
{{Shopping centres in Hong Kong
Causeway Bay
Wan Chai District
Skyscraper office buildings in Hong Kong
Shopping centres in Hong Kong
Kohn Pedersen Fox buildings