Platinum Architecture · 2020
HK Port Passenger Clearance Building Cross Border Crossing Facility
by Aedas
- Platinum A' Design Award 2020 in Architecture
- CLIENT: Highways Department of HKSAR
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 274,865
- Verification code 76E39B6BDA · Verify this award
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About HK Port Passenger Clearance Building Cross Border Crossing Facility
HK Port Passenger Clearance Building is a border crossing facility for the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, a sea crossing that links Hong Kong with Zhuhai and Macao. The building works as a transport hub and provides clearance for passengers and goods. A wave-form roof, 310 metres long and 162 metres wide, shelters the building. The roof is made of steelwork and is divided into structural bays supported by arms that span 36 by 18 metres. Modular roof units were pre-fabricated offsite for efficient construction. The building stands on a reclaimed island.
About the Platinum A' Design Award
HK Port Passenger Clearance Building Cross Border Crossing Facility is a Platinum A' Design Award winner, an extremely prestigious recognition granted to truly exceptional, elegant, and magnificent designs. Platinum winners are marvels of creation, testaments to the limits of intellectual creativity, and demonstrate the unmatched professionalism and genius of their designers. These designs are expected to be the most renowned works that define the aesthetics of an era, contribute to the well-being of society, and push the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. HK Port Passenger Clearance Building Cross Border Crossing Facility exhibits a transcendent level of excellence and unequivocally makes the world a better place with its advantageous and worthwhile characteristics. HK Port Passenger Clearance Building Cross Border Crossing Facility is a Platinum A' Design Award-winning work that triggers desires, inspires, excites, delights, and sparks great joy.
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- Unique Properties
- The Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge is a large sea-crossing linking Hong Kong with Zhuhai City and Macao. The Passenger Clearance Building (PCB) serve as a transportation hub to provide clearance facilities for goods and passengers respectively using the bridge. The objective of the HKBCF is to create a new landmark building that reflects Hong Kong as a vibrant global and metropolitan city, and a gateway of Hong Kong to serve for the western part of Pearl River Delta via HZMB.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The building is sheltered by a 310 metre long, 162 metre wide wave-form roof; the structure of which is composed of steel-work with the building zoned into a series of structured bays, supported by a casting system with arms that hold up the structure and span 36m by 18m.
- Tags
- AedasArchitects, RSH+P, Architecture, ArchitectureinHK, Transport, Bridge, Infrastructure, Pre-fabrication, Iconicroof, HongKong
- Inspiration
- The PCB is constantly filled with movement with people arriving and departing by buses, cars and taxis. It serve as a gateway for all those passing through it, providing Hong Kong with a new ‘front door’ celebrating travel and surrounded by water with views to a natural skyline of evergreen mountains and hills. The elegant modular roof form ideally lends itself to offsite pre-fabrication and has enabled an efficient construction process achieving a very high level of quality.
- Project Duration
- The PCB is located on an artificial island of approximately 150 hectares. It is reclaimed from the open waters off the northeast of the Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA). The PCB is geographically located at a convenient location with good air / road / rail / sea transportation connectivity. The project commenced in December 2010 and was opened in October 2018.
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