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✨From Factory to Home In the heart of Yau Tong, a 1950s weaving factory has found a new purpose—not as a warehouse or of...
06/10/2026

✨From Factory to Home

In the heart of Yau Tong, a 1950s weaving factory has found a new purpose—not as a warehouse or office, but home 🏠

Light Factory is Hong Kong's first industrial-to-residential A&A conversion, born from a factory owner's goodwill and brought to life through government support and cross-sector collaboration. What was once a place of looms and yarn now offers 224 residential units for families in need, with an average size of 280 sq ft and designed for households of 2 to 6 people.

The building's industrial past hasn't been erased—it's been honoured. The iconic "red, white and blue" facade remains. The high ceilings and inverted trapezoid features still speak of a different era; now they frame private bathrooms, open kitchens, and homes filled with natural light—a world away from the subdivided units many residents once called home.

On G/F, communal spaces offer a rare gift in this industrial neighbourhood: places for residents and their children to gather, connect, and grow.

The design didn't only preserve the building—it preserved its spirit, while giving it a new soul. By retaining the entire structure, the project shortened construction time and reduced waste, proving that adaptive reuse can be both socially responsible and environmentally sustainable.

Light Factory is more than a building. It's an architecture that rebuilds lives.💡

🏢Location: Yau Tong, Hong Kong
🕙Completion Year: 2026

Team Leader: CM Chan
Team Member: Vivien Lee

Important Statement from LWK + PARTNERS to our valued partners, clients, and stakeholders. Please refer to the image for...
05/10/2026

Important Statement from LWK + PARTNERS to our valued partners, clients, and stakeholders. Please refer to the image for full details.

Two Authors, Nine Questions: What Does It Mean to Design with Water? 💧Climate change is now testing that relationship fr...
02/10/2026

Two Authors, Nine Questions: What Does It Mean to Design with Water? 💧

Climate change is now testing that relationship from both sides, with too little water in some places and too much in others.

In this conversation, two of authors of Water-oriented Design (Springer Nature) — Professor Stephen Lau and Ivan Fu, Managing Director of LWK + PARTNERS — answer nine questions about the ideas behind the book:

🌊 Definition | Water-oriented Design as “a way of living”
🌿 Nature | Nature-based Solutions as a way of thinking, not only a toolkit
🌏 Region | Why Asia, and why now
🛠️ Technology | Digital twins as tools, with water still coming first
🌱 Future | From carbon, to water, to a third volume in 2027

Nineteen case studies across Asian climate zones ground the framework, seven of them from LWK + PARTNERS.

🎬 Watch the full conversation: https://youtu.be/y8LccrTGM-Q

25/09/2026

Some things are built to last, like tradition, and the moments we share 🌕

LWK + PARTNERS wishing you a beautiful Mid-Autumn Festival with the ones you love.

Four cities looked at water and saw four different problems. 💧Perth saw drought. Shenzhen saw flooding. Singapore saw a ...
11/09/2026

Four cities looked at water and saw four different problems. 💧

Perth saw drought. Shenzhen saw flooding. Singapore saw a shortage of land. American suburbs saw contaminated runoff.

Four water-led urban models, four completely different starting points. They are often used as if they were synonyms. They are not — each one is good at solving a different problem.

1️⃣ Water-Sensitive Cities — Australia, 1990s. Drought. Close the water loop.

2️⃣ Low Impact Development — United States, 1990s. Water quality. Control at source, parcel by parcel.

3️⃣ ABC Waters — Singapore, 2006. Land scarcity. Make every drainage asset earn a second function.

4️⃣ Sponge City — China, national pilots from 2015. Urban flooding. One auditable figure: the volume capture ratio of annual rainfall.

The Greater Bay Area sits in Sponge City Zone IV-V, where both Hong Kong and Shenzhen work from around 70 per cent. How that figure is met determines whether drainage simply occupies a piece of land, or gives a park back to the scheme.

Chapter One of “Water-oriented Design” sets out the four as a selection tool, not a literature review. Designing for what comes next.

As a practice that designs for people and the environment, we are proud to support Hong Kong Green Building Week 2026 an...
03/09/2026

As a practice that designs for people and the environment, we are proud to support Hong Kong Green Building Week 2026 and Biz-Green Dress Day 2026. Our team is excited to take part in the 𝐋𝐎𝐎𝐊 𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐄𝐍! 𝐁𝐢𝐳-𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐎𝐮𝐭𝐟𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐗 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞.

By embracing a ”light and breathable“ dress code, we’re taking small steps to reduce office energy consumption—while keeping our team comfortable, professional, and stylish.

💚 Dressing in lighter fabrics
🌿 Layering smartly for indoor comfort
♻️ Sharing our green workplace habits

It‘s a small change with big impact—supporting our people, our planet, and our city.

秉持以人为本、兼顾环境的设计理念，我们很荣幸参与支持**2026 香港绿色建筑周**及**2026 商界环保服饰日**。团队踊跃参与「𝐋𝐎𝐎𝐊 𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐄𝐍! 商界环保穿搭 × 绿色职场」社交媒体挑战赛。

践行「轻盈透气」着装理念，我们以微小行动降低办公室能耗，同时兼顾团队的舒适感、专业度与时尚感。

💚 选择轻薄面料服饰
🌿 巧用分层穿搭，适配室内环境，提升舒适体验
♻️ 分享绿色职场生活习惯

微小改变，汇聚巨大影响力，守护员工福祉、爱护地球、共建城市美好未来。

香港綠色建築議會 Hong Kong Green Building Council

📗A Home That Grows With You Tucked within United College’s hillside campus at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Choi ...
31/08/2026

📗A Home That Grows With You

Tucked within United College’s hillside campus at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Choi Kai Yau Residence is designed to be more than just a dormitory. It‘s a place to live, connect, and grow.

The project spans over 6,300 square metres and provides 125 double bedrooms along with shared amenities including a hall, gym and reading room. The design responds to the site’s steep slope and semi-open courtyards by arranging rooms around two shifted courtyards that draw light and air through the building. Public spaces open toward the campus square, while bedrooms face outward to green views and the distant landscape.

The facade uses horizontal slabs and vertical fins for solar shading, giving the building a clean, contemporary rhythm that references the campus‘s modernist heritage, while step seats in the courtyards, a rooftop terrace, and a double-height lobby create informal gathering spots and a sense of arrival and openness to daily life.

This is a contemporary campus living experience, and a nurturing home for a community growing together.

🏢Location: Shatin, Hong Kong
🕙Completion Year: 2025

📑Lead Consultant: LWK + Partners
✍🏼Design Architect: Ida & Billy Architects
📸Photo Credit: Xu Liang Leon

28/08/2026

As a proud partner of Project WeCan 學校起動計劃 , we were delighted to host four students from Ko Lui Secondary School for a two-week job tasting programme at our studio this year.

Across marketing, administration, and landscape architecture, they gained valuable hands-on experience and a real glimpse into the world of design.

The programme concluded with a final presentation where the students confidently shared their learnings and reflections — “Before I came here, I always thought design was just about making things look pretty and cool. But while working on the estate facility project, my mind totally changed. I realized that real design is way more complex—you have to think about the natural environment, the budget, and how people actually use the space.”

It is always inspiring to witness young talent discovering their potential, and LWK + PARTNERS are proud to support the next generation of architects, designers, and creative thinkers.

Here’s to the bright futures ahead of them! 🌟

Water arrives too fast, stays too briefly, and returns too polluted. What if it became the starting point of urban desig...
20/08/2026

Water arrives too fast, stays too briefly, and returns too polluted. What if it became the starting point of urban design instead? 💧

We are proud to announce the official publication of "Water-oriented Design: Principles and Practices in the Asian Context" — published by Springer Nature under the Sustainable Urban Design series and co-authored by LWK + PARTNERS Research & Innovation team.

Eight of eleven Greater Bay Area cities sit below the World Bank water poverty line — yet they are among the fastest-building places on Earth. This book addresses this core contradiction through four practical questions:

1⃣️ Which model fits this site? Comparing Sponge City, ABC Waters, WSUD, and LID by climate and approval regime.

2️⃣ How does drainage earn land back? Treating blue-green infrastructure as a land-efficiency instrument.

3️⃣ What draws people to the waterfront? How human-centric water design generates footfall and civic value.

4️⃣ How do these decisions add up? Watershed-scale solutions for sea-level rise and resilience.

Nineteen case studies across Asia ground the framework — including seven from LWK + PARTNERS (such as Hong Kong East Coast Waterfront Promenade Design, Foshan Zhouweiwei Wetland Ecological Restoration Project, and The Zhongshan OCT Harbour City).

Water-led design is not a sustainability line item. It is the part of the brief that decides whether a scheme is approvable, buildable, and future-proofed. Designing the practice for what comes next.

Designing the practice for what comes next.The most consequential changes inside a design practice do not always arrive ...
07/08/2026

Designing the practice for what comes next.

The most consequential changes inside a design practice do not always arrive as a new building, destination or competition win.

Sometimes they begin by redesigning the practice itself.

After eight years of working across the Middle East, LWK + PARTNERS is entering its next chapter with a restructured regional leadership team centred on our MENA headquarters in Dubai and creatively connected to our Shenzhen studio.

Led by Managing Director Kerem Cengiz, the new leadership cadre brings creative direction, architecture, digital design and technical delivery into one senior conversation:

Mithun Varghese — Director of Architecture

Marcos Rosello — Creative Director

Tony Yau — Design Director, based in Shenzhen

Micael Naguib — Associate Director, Head of Digital Design

Ann Thomas — Associate Director, Architecture

Rashmi Suryanarayanan — Associate Director, Head of Technical Design

This is not about creating more hierarchy. It is about creating more presence: bringing senior expertise closer to our people, our clients, our projects and the decisions that shape them.

It means clearer responsibility, stronger creative dialogue and fewer gaps between the first sketch, the client conversation and the coordinated, buildable design.

Across the Middle East—and particularly the GCC—clients increasingly expect cultural intelligence, commercial clarity and technical certainty without sacrificing design distinction.

Our new leadership structure has been shaped around that reality.

We congratulate Mithun, Marcos, Tony, Micael, Ann and Rashmi on their new roles and on the expertise, judgement and generosity of leadership they bring to the next chapter of LWK + PARTNERS.

When talented people step forward, responsibility becomes clearer—and the work begins to change.

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