Treasury Building

Cheung Sha Wan, Hong Kong

Treasury Building is a 22-storey complex and located at the junction of Tonkin Street West and Tung Chau Street, Cheung Sha Wan. The building is used as a re-provision of government offices previously accommodated in Immigration Tower in Wan Chai and other government offices scattered in rented accommodation elsewhere. The building accommodates various government bureaux and departments, a general out-patient clinic, a child care centre, a day care centre for the elderly, an art display area, a convenience store and a basement carpark.

The office floors enjoy the highest efficiency, achieved with a layout bespoke to the geometry and orientation of the site. The offices are equipped with a high-performance façade system, which records an OTTV of 9.6W/m2. Despite the state-of-the-art technology applied, the design of Treasury Building is infused with a subjective design theme - the rich heritage of textile and garment industry of Cheung Sha Wan & Sham Shui Po, which symbolizes the project in its context. Various components in the façade design take on the imageries of certain elements of textile and garment design, for examples the profile of vertical sunshades resemble the cotton spinning, the shaping of the sunshade connecting nodes resemble the shuttle in the weaving machine and the undulating cladding surface on the end-core walls resemble the woven pattern of textile . The resultant façade design of Treasury Building evokes a contemporary building form, depicting a highly compact, efficient and open civil service in action. Its construction employs the state-of-the art technologies, and yet is embellished with details which respect the heritage background of its location.