Kowloon Station Hong Kong, for Client Mass Transit Railway Corporation (MTRC), 1992-1997.

Kowloon Station was part of a plan instigated in 1989 by the Hong Kong government to replace its congested airport at Kai Tak with a new £12 billion airport on the artificial island of Chek Lap Kok. Direct links to the city of Hong Kong were integral to the plan - with all of the railway stations along the transport corridor envisioned as new compact city districts which would eventually form a 193 kilometer integrated linear city.

The brief for Kowloon Station, the largest station on the line, was to create a complex transport interchange with a footprint of 75,000 square metres that would, by 2010, be contained within a new town built to sustain a population of 50,000. The site was located on a 13.4 hectare area at the southern edge of West Kowloon reclamation land. It was to include access to the Airport Express, parking lots and bays for buses and taxis, 5126 residential units, a shopping mall, offices, hotels and recreation facilities.

The final design had three principal levels: ground floor was zoned for public transport and road; level one was dedicated to shopping and pedestrian circulation; and the podium level was dedicated to access and open spaces. In European fashion, the station square formed the core of the project, whilst rising from the station square was a more compact 'asian style super-city'. Clad in 3280 square metres of stainless steel, the roof of the station concourse rises east-west from its podium in a low-slung vault that turns upwards at each end. Four columns rise from level one, to make a covered open square and, along the north-south rail axis, escalators and stairs descend 14 metres through a glazed escalator hall to the MTR line platforms. The station was planned to encourage ease of orientation, visual connections and permeability between levels, and to provide maximum convenience for the maximum number of passengers.