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Lee Gardens is a premium destination offering first-class
business and retail facilities. As a magnet for exciting
fashion, lifestyle products, hospitality and dining, as well
as Grade A offices, its flagship building Lee Garden One
represents the heartbeat of Hong Kong and is designed
with great panache. So when this glamorous building
underwent a renovation, it was time to get stylish
elevators that matched the elegant décor. KONE experts
were called in to work with the customer in equipping
the offices with high quality elevators.
“Almost all the metallic parts – the light, the fly wheel,
the car top, and all the moving parts – had to be covered
by cladding made of bronze-colored stainless steel, and
our hoisting machine was also painted white to suit
the surrounding design,” says
Simon Cheung
, KONE’s
senior project manager, involved in the Lee Garden One
project. “The big challenge was time. The building’s
owner, Hysan Development, wanted to complete the
renovation in a timely fashion to minimize the impact on
the offices and retailers.”
To stay on schedule, KONE shortened the time needed
to develop the design of the elevators and coordinated
with its factory by drawing on its experience working in
Hong Kong’s top buildings. KONE equipped Lee Garden
One with KONE MonoSpace® Special elevators and
LEE GARDEN ONE – HONG KONG
ELEVATORS AS
INTERIORDESIGN
In a district where the sky-high rents are only beaten by New York’s Fifth Avenue, even the elevators need to have a
luxurious touch. So when KONE supplied three glass elevators to Lee Garden One, which houses a high-end mall and
top quality offices in Hong Kong’s Causeway Bay, design was paramount.
offered a broad collection of interior car designs – both of
which give enormous freedom to architects and interior
designers respectively – to provide an aesthetically
pleasing experience for the users.
Working with architects and designers
KONE’s MonoSpace® Special elevators do not have a
separate machine room, which means architects can
allocate space only for the shaft and are free to use the
remaining space creatively. Interior designers too have
the freedom to get imaginative with elevator cars by
selecting from KONE’s Design Collection. It combines
different colors and shades to reflect different moods and
materials while offering varied alternatives to create the
desired architectural feel.
At Lee Garden One, Hysan’s design team wished for a
tailor-made solution with both the interior and exterior
of the elevator seamlessly matching the rest of the mall
and office interiors. KONE coordinated with architects
Wong & Ouyang and contractors Hsin Cheong Interiors
to make this happen.
“The new elevators inside Lee Garden One are truly
spectacular, one-of-a-kind elevators,” Cheung says. “To
ensure the lifts would truly be a unique experience, we
coordinated closely with the project’s interior designer for
the decoration inside the elevator shaft as well as inside
the car because some elements of the car were custom-
made for these special scenic elevators.”
Coordinating with different stakeholders involved in
the project could have generated a host of design
challenges and potential cost issues. But the excellent
working relationship between Hysan and KONE’s project
managers allowed for great collaboration between
both parties. The two sides worked closely together, in
weekly planning meetings, to ensure that any potential
issues would be solved at the very early stages of the
project. With a clear focus on the desired outcomes
and a detailed plan, the project was kept on track and
successfully completed without any delays in 2015.
As a luxury retail venue and Grade A office building, Lee
Garden One, is back in action with renewed zest and
stands out in the heart of Hong Kong by providing a top-
class experience for its customers and office workers.