Innovation Tower 2014 under construction
Hong Kong
2014 completed and designed by Zaha Hadid Architects
Quoted from Professor Huang, Chun Ming’s Facebook
 
香港理工大學賽馬會創新樓 (工程施工中)
香港
2014完工,由 Zaha Hadid Architects事務所設計
2017.07圖文轉載自中原大學建築系黃俊銘老師Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/al.huang.71?fref=pb&hc_location=friends_tab&pnref=friends.all
 
參觀Zaha Hadid的香港理工大學賽馬會創新設計大廈有感:
兼具鋼構玻璃輕巧流動的空間感和清水混凝土強烈的形式魅力
Zaha阿姨的建築有其獨特的魅力!
營造廠商技術不是很好,把一棟數位高科技感的建築做壞掉,可惜了!
部分空間感靠一般的室內裝修,外觀和室內的維修清理也很辛苦....
.http://www.ideamsg.com/2013/07/innovation-tower/
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innovation_Tower
Jockey Club Innovation Tower is a building of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University located on Chatham Road South in Hung Hom district, Kowloon. It was designed by Pritzker-prize-winning architect Zaha Hadid. This building is her first permanent work in Hong Kong. Originally expected to be completed by the end of 2011, it was not finished until mid-2013.
 
Aesthetics[edit]
Zaha Hadid's firm won the competition to design the building in 2007. The competition brief called for "a beacon structure symbolising and driving the development of Hong Kong as a design hub in Asia." She and her team took as their guiding principle the "collateral flexibility" between the departments to be housed in the building. Their solution was to "dissolve ... the classic typography of tower and podium to create a seamlessly fluid new structure ... creating a building which is inherently organised and understood to visitors from the point of entry."
Athletic fields surrounding the building were razed to create a new surrounding landscape. The main pedestrian entrance was placed at podium level, as with the other buildings on campus. A long pathway from nearby Suen Chi Sun Memorial Square to an open foyer creates a focal point, where the building space opens to shops, a cafeteria, museum, and exhibition area.
 
Location and size
The tower is located at the northwestern tip of the university campus. Upon completion, the tower provided some 12,000 square metres (130,000 sq ft) of net operational floor area and is able to accommodate about 1,800 staff and students.
 
Academic uses
The tower houses the School of Design (SD) and supports the development of its specialisations, namely Environmental Design, Industrial and Product Design, Visual Communication, Advertising as well as Digital Design.