Opus Hong Kong ; Photos : Frank Gehry / Swire Properties
Hong Kong can now claim aFrank Gehry of its own , joining the rank of Los Angeles and New York , Prague and Bilbao – cosmopolitan cities privilege with a billowing bauble with which to set in motion a nonaged tourism or luxury apartment campaign . The Opus Hong Kong , a 12 - report residential tower and the designer ’s first in Asia , has lately been complete .
Located at 53 Stubbs Road on the Peak , the highest point in Hong Kong , the high - rise construction overlooks the whole of the city , an idyllic panorama that fills each of the ten 6,000 solid - invertebrate foot unit , virtual “ home in the sky ” . speak of the project , Swire Properties , the developers behind Opus , verify that the structure cost $ 27,000 per square foot , with the individual apartments expected to fetch record - breaking price , thus well qualifying the complex as the most valuable genuine estate in Hong Kong . Still , Gehry , who had persistently express his antipathy for luxury housing commissions to outside media , considered the project an opportunity to deliver a design both “ modest and appropriate for the market . ”
As the architect recentlyexplained to Bloomberg TV , “ Hong Kong loan itself to this [ Opus ] because you are take care at this incredible landscape painting of the harbour and the metropolis ” , a distinctive landscape painting that enabled Gehry to “ make something unequalled , something that is unconvincing to be replicated anywhere again . ”
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