Author: Ruth Slavid Editor: Yvette Higson, Liliana Silva Designer: Anke Pohl Contributors: Keith Griths, Brian Johnson, David Roberts, Ken Wai, Michael Walters, Max Connop and Simon Bowden Printer: PUSH Published by Aedas First published in March 2012 © Aedas All rights reserved. No part o this publication can be reproduced, stored in retrieval systems or transmitted in any orm or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission o Aedas.
ABOUT ABO UT US US 06 DIVERSE 08 COLLABORATIVE 16 INNOVATIVE 24 PROGRESSIVE 32 INSPIRATIONAL 40 PASSIONATE 48 ADAPT ADAP TABL ABLE E 56 QUALITY 64 LEADERS 72 COMMUNITY 80 PROJECT LEGEND 88 LOOKING FORWARD 92 TIMELINE 94 OUR OFFICES 96
ABO AB OUT US US As it celebrates its tenth anniversary in 2012, Aedas can congratulate itsel on its transormation in size and global reach, to become one o the world’s largest architects*. Formed in 2002 through the joining together o two well-established practices based in the UK and Hong Kong, Aedas today oers a diverse portolio ranging rom relatively small urban schools and other specialist building types to massive masterplans or an entire city. In just ten years since its ormation, Aedas has grown to have 32 oces in 20 dierent countries, and has achieved this in a way that ew other practices can match: it has become a global business that is rmly rooted in the communities it serves, with a reputation that attracts the best local talent and gives them access to the most advanced knowledge and expertise rom around the world. Aedas’ growth refects the changes in architectural consultancy worldwide, in which any company with aspirations to grow has needed to service an international market. It has done this extremely successully by taking a unique approach, designed to give its customers the very best service. The company establishes an oce in every location where it intends to work, and has owners o the practice in each oce. This allows Aedas to develop an in-depth understanding o each location, enhanced by a policy o encouraging members o the teams to play an active role in their communities. The result is architecture that is appropriate to its place while also being designed to the highest international standards.
Aedas works to give clients the buildings that they want, which will serve their needs both today and in the uture. It does not have a single recognisable style, imposed rom the top o the practice, but instead allows the designers working on individual projects to develop solutions that include innovation in appearance, organisation or unctionality, and o course are appropriate to client needs. There is however a consistent approach to design, which means that all buildings are the result o rigorous thinking and are o high quality, however dierent they may look. Aware o the challenges o the uture, Aedas is committed to continuing to learn and develop so that it can create the best buildings or a world in which resources are becoming increasingly precious. All this is made possible through a commitment to research and through identiying and sharing a common intellectual platorm, so that the diverse architects, landscape architects and interior designers who make up the organisation can all benet rom the latest technology, as can the equally diverse client group. Aedas sees its success as due to this common platorm which is supported on 10 ‘pillars’. It identies these as: diverse; collaborative; innovative; progressive; inspirational; passionate; adaptable; quality; leaders; and, community. The ollowing pages look briefy at what these pillars stand or, and highlight projects that demonstrate their success in practice. * The practice ranked rst in Building Design’s World Architecture 100, 2012
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DIVERSE Aedas designs buildings and environments which range rom vast mixed-used developments and transport interchanges to individual cultural and educational buildings. Projects may be o national, regional or purely local signicance. In its consultancy work it also oers advice on projects that may be as small as a single house. No project is too large or too complex to tackle, but the practice will also bring its ull attention and skills to bear on projects that are more modest in scale.
to the climate and culture, but also to the available construction methods, ensuring that buildings are well-nished and capable o being maintained by their owners and occupants. Aedas works in a way that is appropriate to the diversity not only o design but also o procurement methods, the way that people do business, legislation and the role o proessional services. At the same time, local oces can oer the very best knowledge gained rom projects across the globe.
Aedas’ wide geographical spread means that it has built everything rom highly insulated sealed buildings in the cold dry climate o Ulan Bator, outer Mongolia where elements have to be fown in by helicopter, to timber structures in the hot and humid climate o Java, Indonesia, where it is essential to maximise breezes and so the buildings are as permeable as possible.
Another o Aedas’ key strengths is the diversity o talent across the entire practice. It employs architects, interior designers, landscape architects and building surveyors. Many sta are hired locally but team members are encouraged to move between oces, so that each oce houses a mix o nationalities, skills and disciplines. They can bring their experience o working in many dierent places and on many dierent types o projects to design locally appropriate buildings that refect the very best o international practice.
Buildings are diverse because they respond to the brie and to local requirements, rather than imposing a single house-style generated rom a central oce. The result is appropriate not only
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COLLABORATIVE Collaboration is key to the success o Aedas, both through designers collaborating with other members o the project team, and through collaboration within the practice to bring the best and most appropriate knowledge to the realisation o a design. Every design is unique and individual and that is thanks in great part to the way that the practice sets out to work closely with the stakeholders in the building – the client, the other consultants and the contractors. The practice is able to do this because it delivers the entire design. At Aedas projects are ollowed to the end, not designed as ‘concepts’ and then handed over to local executive architects. Within the practice there is a culture o knowledge sharing which means that although projects are designed locally, the design team can call on specialist expertise rom other team members around the globe. This may be knowledge in a particular discipline, or simply the experience o having encountered a similar specic problem previously and having come up with an elegant solution.
Collaboration is ostered through both ormal and inormal arrangements within the practice. While the business is structured in a way that encourages designers to consult colleagues in other places and with other skills, it is also supported by a culture o personal relationships and collaboration. Colleagues who have learnt to trust and respect each other at earlier stages in their careers, perhaps when they worked in the same oce, will know that they can call on the abilities o each other wherever they may be, and that help will be given reely and generously. This makes or an excellent working environment. More importantly rom a client’s point o view, it means that when the client calls on the local skills o an Aedas oce, it will also be accessing the knowledge and experience available within one o the world’s largest architectural practices.
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INNOVATIVE
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Aedas is a company that welcomes challenges, and will introduce innovation on projects, condent that they have been ully realised beore construction and that they will work. For instance, on the Al Bahr Towers, the headquarters o the Abu Dhabi Investment Council, it has designed one o the rst dynamic acades in the world. Based visually on the concept o a mashrabiya screen, this secondary acade has elements that open and close in response to the position and strength o the sun, to orm a vital part o the solarshading strategy o the building. In Hong Kong, the Express Rail Link West Kowloon Terminus, with 15 rail tracks and an area o 674,000 sq m, will be the largest underground terminus in the world. Bringing together not only the railway but also retail and oce elements, plus a public park on top o the terminus, it is a hugely ambitious project with a tight schedule. Aedas had to test every idea beorehand, and be condent that it could succeed without any unpleasant surprises. The condence to carry out such ambitious projects comes partly rom experience and the existence o a bank o talented people, and partly rom the act that the practice has dedicated research and development teams, committed to gathering new inormation and developing new skills and techniques which are then disseminated through the practice. The team carries out work itsel, collaborates with other practices and disciplines, and sponsors research in universities and other institutions.
This goes well beyond the research that is carried out in most practices, which tends to look simply at gathering knowledge that is appropriate to an individual project. On technically demanding projects, the computational techniques allow the practice to come up with solutions that might not otherwise have been possible. They also enable it to create standardised elements on a building where at rst glance it may have seemed that every element had to be dierent, hence simpliying the construction process and making a solution that appeared too expensive at rst sight eminently aordable. Aedas’ advanced modelling skills helped it to develop the exciting conical orm o the 47 stations on the Middle East’s rst metro sy stem, Dubai Metro in a way that made them as simple and eective to build as possible. And at Al Bahr Towers, parametric design helped it to rene the shape o the building to produce the most ecient ratio o wall to foor area. The practice’s research in the area o sustainability has led to it developing a ‘green lter’, a means o working out which o a number o options will yield the greatest benet in sustainability terms on an existing building. Other areas o work include the creation o a tall-building model in collaboration with Arup, Hilson Moran and Davis Langdon to look at the eect o shape, orm and key brieng decisions on the energy use o towers.
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PROGRESSIVE Good architecture is about acing new challenges all the time and dealing with them in creative ways that do not put clients at risk. This is something at which Aedas excels as it can use its platorm o knowledge and experience to gather all the relevant inormation necessary to understanding a brie, however complex. It can draw on the precedents o other buildings that it has designed previously in order to understand best practice. From there, it can step orward into new solutions, based on the latest thinking. In-depth understanding o the past and present is essential or creative imagining o the buildings o the uture. Only by moving solutions orward rather than repeating designs rom the past, can the practice deliver buildings that will be appropriate or the changing needs o today and tomorrow. Through examining ideas in three dimensions and using the latest tools, Aedas is able to test new ideas thoroughly beore applying them to buildings. Parametric design allows the design team to identiy areas where solutions that may look simple at rst will actually result in an unacceptable level o complexity, and allows it
to tune the design at an early stage beore encountering problems. This means that any diculties are identied and overcome at the design stage, rather than during or ater construction, giving clients the reassurance that they can benet rom a progressive approach without exposing themselves to undue risk. Advanced technology also makes it possible to distil a complex solution into simple graphic images, allowing the client to be involved throughout the process, and not simply presented with a nal design at the end. In this way clients can become part o the development o the design, and so have condence in its progressive elements.
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INSPIRATIONAL The very best designs not only satisy all the clients’ needs and all the unctional requirements, but also have something else to them, a special actor that has developed oten in response to one aspect o the brie and that lends a particular excitement to the building and makes it special. It is the magic touch o inspiration that makes a building stand out. Aedas believes that it brings that element o inspiration to all its projects and that it can do so because it has created a culture within the organisation that allows creativity to fourish. This is born out o the collegiate system that Aedas operates, in which people eel that they can talk to each other reely, and in which everybody knows that their contribution is valued. This, coupled with the base o support and knowledge that makes the team condent that all unctional requirements will be addressed ully and imaginatively, gives the designers at Aedas the reedom to come up with the inspired ideas that are oten triggered by some aspect o the design.
For Aedas, it is the quality o the idea that is important, and not who has produced that idea, so that even junior members o the team can be condent that their best ideas will encounter a receptive audience. It is not possible to create a system that generates inspiration, but Aedas, by employing the best designers, giving them the best tools and placing them in a sympathetic environment has done everything that it can to oster inspiration. For members o the team, this brings great job satisaction. Clients can be condent that when they appoint Aedas they are employing a practice where many o the best designers in architecture work, in an environment that encourages inspiration, and that their buildings should be the beneciaries.
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PASSIONATE The designers who work or Aedas have a passion or the very best design. They are ree to explore their own ideas rather than having design approaches imposed rom above, and develop the skills they need that allow them to create buildings that work or their clients and satisy the brie while having that extra little ‘something’ that makes them special. Aedas makes a point o employing people who have a passion to create the very best buildings and it then helps them develop through a culture o constant mentoring and tutoring, where the senior people in the practice work hard with the more junior members o their teams to help them to learn and develop. In this way, designers develop the skills that allow them to ollow their passions and work in an environment that allows them to do so. Good architects are passionate about good design, but in order to remain excited and engaged they need to be given the space to develop and the tools with which to do their best work. Aedas is dedicated to giving its younger sta all-round experience and training,
with the opportunity to work on a range o dierent projects in a number o dierent places. This ensures that they remain resh and enthusiastic and develop the skills that will allow them in turn to manage and mentor younger sta. Along the way they develop a web o contacts who can help and support them however complex the projects that they undertake. These designers with a passion or their work can oer clients and their projects solid, grounded knowledge combined with the latest new thinking and original ideas. For clients their building is the most import ant building in the world; Aedas nurtures its designers so that they can bring the same level o skill and originality to every project, enabling client and architect to share a passion or the work that they are creating together.
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ADAPTABLE By being grounded in a local environment, Aedas can be condent that the buildings that it produces are appropriate to the local conditions. It can take the very best o international experience and thinking, and adapt it to t. This means understanding local rules and regulations, an appreciation o climate and o seismic conditions, and also creating a design that ts the way that local people want to live and work. The materials selected will be appropriate to the environment in which they will be used. At the same time, with its wide experience, the practice can take lessons learnt rom one building type and apply them to other building types. Because Aedas does not have a signature style, it can work closely with its clients to produce a building that is suited to the historic, social and environmental context, and that respects the sense o place. Every Aedas building is unique, and so is uniquely adapted to the circumstances. By creating buildings that work today in their local environment, the practice can ensure that they will have a long lie, and also suit the needs o the uture. It can take knowledge o how building use is changing in other parts o the
world, and incorporate that experience within the design in order to help ‘uture-proo’ its designs and ensure that the clients have invested in a building that will have a long, productive lie. The practice works with uturologists to understand more about the ways in which people are using buildings and how those will change, and it uses that learning to inorm its designs. It has also carried out projects on the uture o the oce, the type o building where requirements are changing most rapidly. Many long-lived buildings survive because they have more than one use during their liespan. In order to allow this to happen with the buildings that it designs, Aedas is investigating ways to develop orms and foor plates so that the buildings are more adaptable, allowing uses to change i necessary over time, and so giving them a longer usable lie. The public realm also needs to be adaptable, as the ways in which people travel change, and the times and ways in which they use public space develop. Aedas uses its understanding o these changes to inorm its masterplanning work and its design o external spaces.
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QUALITY Providing quality in the design and realisation o buildings is the bedrock o Aedas’ approach. It requires a solid oundation o technical knowledge, which becomes ever more important as projects grow bigger and more complex, particularly in Asia and other developing regions. It is increasingly necessary to bring a proound understanding o a whole range o building typologies to a project. On a single mixed- use project the designer may need to have an understanding o inrastructure, o the design o large spaces, o residential and o oce use, and o retail design. While no individual is likely to be highly experienced in all these elds, the web o experience on which Aedas can draw means that as much expertise as is necessary can be brought to bear on a single project. A high-quality design is one that satises all the technical needs o the building user and complies with all the local codes and regulations. While it should look beautiul and contain upliting a nd usable spaces, it must also be unctional in terms o structural integrity, durability and environmental perormance. These are all areas to which Aedas pays close attention. At the
same time, quality design does not just repeat the successul solutions o the past, but moves orward to create new answers that question the past and the present to create the buildings o the uture. Aedas is never araid to question received wisdom because it knows that it has the solid technical skills that allow it to excel by taking design in new directions. This reedom to question is enhanced by the widespread adoption o three-dimensional design which makes it possible to propose and test solutions that otherwise might have seemed impossible. Clients who commission buildings rom Aedas can be condent that they are receiving designs that are built on a sound basis o the very best knowledge, rom which they can move orward into new ideas with the condence that they will be as technically appropriate as the most well-tried solutions.
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LEADERS Aedas is able to lead the industry by designing projects that are larger or aster or more dicult than has been done beore thanks to its unrivalled resource o talent and expertise. It is condent that it has the best knowledge because it is always eeding back inormation within the organisation – about ailures as well as successes. It is as important to know what has not worked on a building as it is to know what has worked well. The company’s sophisticated intranet allows sta to access drawings and details o past projects, as well as to draw on the experiences o those who were involved. It is this strong base o knowledge that allows the company to be condent that when it undertakes a project o unparalleled ambition, such as a re quirement to build 10 million square eet o property in Macao at a speed that was previously unheard o, it will achieve its targets. The company is also using its computing expertise, and particularly its expertise in three-dimensional modelling, to make the
construction process aster, saer and more reliable. It does this by transmitting inormation to actories making components and subassemblies so that as much o a project as possible can be completed within the sae and controlled environment o a actory, rather than in the less controllable environment o a building site. I work on site is reduced to the assembly o pre-made components, then the project will be less constrained by the restrictions imposed by the size o the site, by access and by the weather. The structure o Aedas encourages as many people as possible to develop as leaders within their elds. For some this may involve taking part in research projects within the organisation. Others will be more outward acing. By lecturing, teaching or sitting on regulatory committees and organisations, they can make a contribution to their communities but also bring back vital knowledge into the company, helping Aedas not only to become a leader within the proession but also to design leading-edge buildings or its clients.
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COMMUNITY The teams at Aedas are as rmly rooted in their communities as possible. Individuals are encouraged to play an active role, whether within local business organisations, through sport or charities, or by taking part in initiatives such as greening an area or perorming in the arts. This refects the practice’s approach to corporate social responsibility, but also its belie that only through a proound understanding o a community, whether o a village, a city, a region or a country, is it possible to deliver the very best and most appropriate architecture. Architects at Aedas take the brieng process very seriously and communicate thoroughly with clients and potential clients, but there may well be unspoken assumptions that are so embedded in the culture o a place that nobody will think to communicate them. Through their close links with the community, members o the Aedas team, whether they were recruited locally or have moved there rom another city or country, can be condent that they have built up a depth o understanding which will allow them to understand the expectations and desires o clients.
This approach also means that the architects and other designers at Aedas have a strong sense o place that they can bring to all their designs, ensuring that they are appropriate and suited to their environment. By building strong links with other design proessionals, Aedas can orm the most appropriate and eective partnerships on the projects that it carries out. By making engagement with the community a priority, the practice can ensure that team members, at all levels o the organisation, will not eel that they are too busy or too pressured to participate. In addition to their role within the local community, everybody at Aedas is part o the international Aedas community, building links within the organisation which allow them to call on the very best o expertise rom around the world.
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PROJECT LEGEND Page 10 Holland Park School
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Client: Royal Borough o Kensington and Chelsea 25,000 sq m
Client: Toronto Transit Commission 22,500 sq m
A new academy that consolidates an existing 1950’s campus into a more compact ootprint and provides a fexible teaching environment or the 21st Century.
The design o two new below-ground stations will provide a strategic interchange between private car, subway, light rail and local bus services and minimise passenger circulation distances.
Page 12 Olympia 66 Client: Hang Lung Properties 221,900 sq m Award-winning new retail centre designed with an oriental overtone. Inspired by the twin carp, a typical symbol in Chinese New Year paintings, the centre’s design is synonymous with wealth and abundance.
Page 22 Global Design Summit Recognising the importance o design and collaboration, Aedas has developed a programme that brings together employees rom around the world to collaborate and develop the best designs or a number o projects within the practice. The outcome provides each project with the expertise and resh approach rom Aedas’ global regions to create dynamic and inspirationalresults.
Page 14 Chengdu Ya’an Cit y Panda BioIsland Masterplan Client: Hong Tao Architect 310,000 sq m This masterplan addresses the area’s ecological sensitivities and creates a unique environment that will accommodate multiple acilities including a new retail centre and 6-star hotel.
Page 26 Al Bahr Towers Client: Abu Dhabi Investment Council 52,000 sq m The design or this new headquarters provides a landmark or the City o Abu Dhabi. Its concept, derived rom an algorithmic composition, inormed by Islamic principles o design, generated the design o the twin 25-storey oce towers.
Page 30 Boulevard Plaza
Page 42 Ara bian Perform ance Venue
Client: Emaar Properties PJSC 62,927 sq m
Client: Sama Duani Llc 650,890 sq m
Boulevard Plaza stands as a model o innovation and respect or the community. Its design realized the client’s vision or an elegant commercial development and provides fexible units that are modularized to standard layouts or simple construction, rational space and cost eciency.
Surrounded by sand and occupying its own island in the middle o a nature reserve, this perorming arts centre eatures walls which contain water to become the main entry oyer to the complex. Entering the glass cube elevator, one rises out o the water and arrives at a traditional orecourt or the 2500 seat perormance venue 100 m above the ground.
Page 34 Express Rail Link West Kowloon Terminus
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Client: MTR Corporation Ltd. 674,000 sq m
Concept Design 3,500 sq m
Connecting Hong Kong to Beijing, this high-speed rail terminus station will be part o the world’s largest rail network. With teen tracks it will be the largest below ground terminus station in the world and will oer the amenities o an international airport rather than a rail station, accommodating immigration domains or both Hong Kong and China.
Dedicated as a centre or inormation and education, this mosque incorporates contemporary design with Islamic infuence. Its design begins at the dome, representing heaven and fows downwards to the main prayer and unction areas which represent heaven’s accessibility to all.
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Client: DFES and Rod Aldridge 14,000 sq m
Client: Salord City Council and The Learning Partnership 12,280 sq m
This new academy provides a benchmark environment, bringing together teaching and learning in new ways. Accommodating 1600 students, it oers a fexible accommodation around two atriums that step up the landscape, creating varied and dynamic internal spaces within a simple exterior orm.
Based on an o-site manuactured kit-o-parts, the design concept or this college will be implemented on multiple school buildings, thereby increasing value and driving down costs. The school breaks away rom traditional patterns o educational delivery and oers the opportunity to update pedagogical practices typically limited by cellular arrangements o teacher-led classrooms.
Page 18 AIG Asia Headquarters Client: AIG 7,800 sq m The six and a hal foor redesign encompassed executive areas over the top two foors, with an interconnecting staircase. Innovative use o simple materials and silk abric and timber screens, brought a touch o Asian ambience to the space.
Page 38 Star Performing Arts Centre Page 28 MTRC Sunny Bay Station Client: MTR Corporation Ltd. 9,500 sq m This interchange station or the Disneyland Resort Line connects the Tung Chung Line and is the starting point or a unique railway journey. Its curved abric roo on a lightweight steel structure establishes it as a benchmark o sustainable design and integration with the natural environment.
Client: CapitaLand Ltd. and Rock Productions Pte Ltd. 62,000 sq m The new perorming arts complex will provide a rich entertainment, liestyle and shopping experience or One North and the wider Singapore community. The design oers an imaginative approach linking a ll the acilities into a journey o discovery rom the public to the perormance venues.
Page 50 CX 21 Client: Prominent lm and entertainment company 21,468 sq m The eight-storey complex is designed to house the regional headquarters and production acility o a world renowned lm and entertainment company. The design challenges its guidelines to ull the various requirements, achieving an average net gross area eciency o over 80% and creating a strong civic identity.
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Page 52 Xi’an JiaotongLiverpool University Client: Suzhou Industrial Park Education Development and Investment Company 46,160 sq m
Page 62 Alexa ndra House & Prince’s Building Client: Hongkong Land 7,905 sq m
The design o this new university takes into consideration the city’s rich cultural traditions and rapid economic development to oer a world-class university committed to the training o highly skilled experts in the elds o science, engineering, and management.
Renovations o the landmark retail centres o Hong Kong’s central district include Alexandra House, Prince’s Building and Chatter House. The design introduces fagship high-end retail stores, transorming the building acades to allow or brand exposure, enhancing the shopper’s experience.
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Page 82 Keynsham Regeneration Project
Client: Trident International Holdings 114,543 sq m
Client: Bath & North East Somerset Council 9,447 sq m
Potentially the tallest residential tower in the world, this new building responds to the extreme conditions o the site: the density and proximity o the neighbours and the extreme environment o Dubai. The design solution oers two distinct sides. The rst oers a smooth south-oriented side and the other a staggered side o alternating sky-gardens and apartments.
This redevelopment aims to revitalise the community, making better use o its current amenities and to ultimately encourage wider investment within the town. To achieve this, new retail units, library, links to the park and adaptable public spaces will be added.
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Client: Empire Holdings 90,206 sq m
Client: Beijing North Star Company Ltd. 161,780 sq m
This 60-storey luxury residential tower maximises its presence with vertical layers expanding to its property lines. The design standardizes units and a rranges the section, maximising views to the park and beyond towards the sea. This option was instrumental to the project’s nancial viability as it was undamental to pre-sales within a very competitive market.
Ideally positioned within a larger masterplan this new mixed-use centre serves as the anchor o the overall development. The design concept o this landmark represents water fowing between two rocks which is depicted in the retail component enveloped by the commercial and residential towers anchored to each side o the site.
Page 58 Xiam en International Cruise Terminal Client: Xiamen Ports Group Co. Ltd. 81,274 sq m The design concept o this terminal building draws inspiration rom the wave orms generated by the sea. The roo design allows or maximum natural lighting and ventilation within the building, also assisting with energy saving objectives.
Page 68 Hong Kong International Airport North Satellite Concourse Client: Airport Authority Hong Kong 18,900 sq m This extension to the existing main passenger terminal at one o the world’s busiest airports provides a stand-alone ully operational passenger concourse with ten bridge-served rontal stands or aircrats and vehicle connection to the existing Terminal 1. The new design ensures a pleasant passenger experience through arrivals, departures and transers.
Page 76 Dubai Metro Client: Road and Transport Authority Total o 70 km o lines and 45 stations Designed as the rst metro system in the Middle East, this new transport development includes 47 metro stations and related depot buildings comprised along the 47 km Red Line and the 10 km Green Line. The distinctive landmark structures provide a consistent design language capable o responding to the particular requirements o individual stations.
Page 78 The Luxe Manor Client: Cova Holdings Ltd Consisting o 153 standard rooms, six theme suites, a lobby, business centre and two F&B outlets, the unique design or this small boutique hotel is quirky and un yet homely and stylish.
Client: The National Assembly or Wales 8,400 sq m This new multi-unctional oce development serves as a ocal point or enquiries rom members o the public and oers an open foor plan to accommodate 650 workstations, reception, meeting rooms, conerence acilities, library and breakout areas. The building straddles the existing embankment with a two-storey accommodation on the upper terrace and three storeys to the lower.
Page 86 Aedas in the Community Initiative An integral part o our company values o commitment, integrity and innovation, social responsibility is incorporated into every aspect o our business activities. Using the resources o our global reach, our technology and the energy and passion o our sta, we are building stronger communities to create positive social and environmental change around the world.
Page 79 The View at Sands MacaoHotel Client: Venetian Macao Ltd.
Page 60 Pazhou Exhibition Complex Client: Nam Fung Development 159,329 sq m Situated in an area dedicated to exhibition ac tivities, this unique development is comprised o our distinct uses, split between two sites separated 160 metres by an existing building. Its success is the horizontal movement which maximizes a dialogue between the two sites, moving beyond the middle structure, providing a unied expression o this complex.
Page 70 St John’s Church of england Primary School Client: Blackburn Diocese 1,500 sq m Developed to maximise space and light within a small urban site, the design o this new school includes a 16 place nursery and 1FE primary school. The design addresses the site’s limitations by allocating classrooms above a ground foor dedicated to administration use. Each storey o teaching space eatures its own playdeck, culminating in a large rootop playground.
An exclusive top-foor lounge at The Sands, the brie demanded peerless opulence, with our private gambling rooms, a distinctive bar and lounge, and a cigar and wine room. Additionally, the option o ‘privatising’ areas was deemed vital in appealing to guests, and was thereore integrated into the overall planning. 1 9
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LOOKING FORWARD Aedas will continue to pursue its ambition to be not the biggest but the best architectural practice in the world. It will concentrate on continuing to improve its design skills and its use o technology, and continue to strengthen its interactions with the communities that it serves. It will look or opportunities in new geographic markets, and where it sees those opportunities it will approach them by setting up local oces employing local people. In this way it will maintain its unique strength as a global business that operates locally, producing locally appropriate architecture to the highest international standards. For example, it is setting up an oce in Indonesia, and looking at opportunities in Cambodia and in two more cities in China. The company recognises the challenges o a uture with limited resources, with increasing urbanisation and growing concerns about
sustainability. It intends to ace those challenges by urther developing its expertise so that it can provide the best possible sustainable and aordable buildings. Aedas will continue to be a learning organisation, improving its research capability and its ability to disseminate that research. It is proud o its computing expertise, and particularly o its leadership in BIM, and it will continue to develop those abilities with the aim eventually o creating the kind o immersive environments that exist in other industries, such as the automotive and airline industries. Aedas will continue to learn rom the buildings it has already completed, so that it can oer the very best in architecture, landscape design and interiors to new and existing clients, in new and existing markets.
20022003 Established by AHR in the UK and LPT in Asia, the practice is branded as Aedas
2003-2004
2007-2008
2008-2009
The newly ormed Aedas network includes 14 oces
Aedas expands its Interiors group to Singapore & Middle East
Aedas combines Building Consultancy services
2004-2005 Aedas establishes its R&D group
2009-2010 Completion o the longest most advanced automated metro system in the world
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2005-2006 Aedas begins work in earnest in the UAE with the opening o its Dubai operation
2006-2007 Aedas establishes its Urban Design and Landscape group
2010-2011 Aedas named as International Practice o the Year by the Architect’s Journal
n o i t a 2011-2012 r o b a Completion o one o the world’s rst dynamic acades. l l Today, the Aedas network has grown to include 32 oces in 20 countries o C
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