AIRSIDE is a flagship Hong Kong project that embraces sustainability and placemaking in its design, offering generous public spaces dedicated to art and culture. On the site of the former Kai Tak Airport, the 47-storey mixed-use complex is the first in Hong Kong to receive seven of the most recognised green and smart-building certifications. Designed by the world-renowned architectural firm Snøhetta, the skyscraper’s gently curved, fluted glass facade evokes the developer’s – and Hong Kong’s – historical associations with textiles. This concept is echoed in the interior and landscape design. As well as a plethora of retail and F&B options, the 700,000 sq. ft. mall includes a monumental contemporary landscape painting Jat’s Incline by local artist Stephen Wong Chun Hei, an enormous vertical garden and atrium walls clad with materials boasting excellent acoustic, maintenance and antibacterial characteristics: the special fabrics were upcycled from plastic bottles.