Golden Gate Hong Kong, Causeway Bay Architecture, Flower Market HK Lunar New Year Images
Golden Gate Causeway Bay, Hong Kong
New HK Architecture at the Flower Market – design by Napp Studio & Architects
12 Aug 2019
Flower Market Golden Gate in Causeway Bay
Design: Napp Studio & Architects

Location: Flower Market, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong
Hoping for luck and prosperity for oneself, family and friends have always been the top priority during Lunar New Year, followed by countless gatherings with relatives and friends. While crowds are racing to flood into temples on New Year?s Day wishing good fortune, visiting Flower Market is also on the must-do list before New Year?s Day for a lot of us.

People stroll around the Flower Market with friends and families, purchasing auspicious dolls and accessories as well as festive flowers and plants to decorate their homes. The Flower Market, indeed, could be understood as a ?Temple? before New Year?s Day. Hence, we wish to combine the meaning of the market and the ?temple? with this opportunity to design a unique entrance for the Flower Market.
Taking references from traditional Chinese temple gateway, we translated the highly complex architectural expression into an abstract form as an entrance of the Flower Market, in which symbolically infusing the ?temple? into the market. Instead of erecting a solid block, a lattice structure is adopted in minimising the visual blockage and structural load while still achieving a hig...