Too cool for school
The media center provided a vehicle for CityU's media program, and was intended to house students pursuing the rapidly developing fields of video production, gaming and tech art. "The building symbolized this ambition well," Stanford says. "It is modern and dramatic. The University staircase encourages floor-to-floor movement, with views out to the city. It is very unusual for a multistory building in Hong Kong to offer such a richly spatial and escalator-free way to walk up and down the building, as an alternative to taking the elevator."
While many of the classrooms have low ceiling heights of less than 2.4 meters, the higher floors along the southern facade look out over well-manicured terraces. Stanford sums up his firm's achievement: "We created interesting spaces that are unconventional."
