Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge Hong Kong Link Road

Image：China State Construction

Finally the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge opened this week. It’s been a long process since we originally started back in 2011, being one of Hong Kong's largest ever infrastructure projects. 

We have worked with Atkins and China State Construction on the second of three packages for the Hong Kong side of the ‘Bridge’

The Scenic Hill to Cross Boundary Facilities section required significant land reclamation for a new highway, tunnels, linking roads and maintenance facilities at the existing Chep Lap Kok Airport. 

​Project:

Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge
Hong Kong Link Road – Section between Scenic Hill and Hong Kong Boundary Crossing Facilities.

Location:

Hong Kong

Client: 

Government of HKSAR / China State Construction / Atkins China Ltd

Type:

Landscape design

Size:

23 ha
​2018 completion

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​Under the ‘design and build’ contract my team have conceived and detailed the significant landscape design elements and interventions on the project, planting a large number of trees and shrubs and most importantly incorporating a low cost, sustainable drainage solution for the majority of landscape areas.   

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​THE LANDSCAPE PROBLEM

The project area is rather complicated. It generally consists of a large number of fragmented and leftover areas between highway connections, with various requirements of differing land ownership and maintenance parties.

The project area is rather complicated. It generally consists of a large number of fragmented and leftover areas between highway connections, with various requirements of differing land ownership and maintenance parties.

Moreover, extensive underground technical   infrastructure, together with rigid restrictions on use of plant species so   as to avoid risk of bird strike to aircraft, provided significant constraints  on the landscape design opportunities.

New land reclamation areas have been   formed solely for the construction of the spaghetti of new road   infrastructure required to connect the Bridge’s elevated highway into the   ground services.   

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​THE LANDSCAPE SOLUTION

​We wanted to develop a design that provides an overall structure to the project site, acting to stitch together all the new and old fragmented land parcels within the transport corridor of the Bridge Link Road. We did this by extending the scale and alignment of the existing airport development grid right across the new reclamation area.

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THE LANDSCAPE OBJECTIVES

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•Develop a localised and differentiated landscape aesthetics strategy for the project with a strong ‘gateway’ design theme which unifies the development;

•Seamlessly blend the new development within the context of both the existing urbanised airport fabric and the naturalised environment of Scenic Hill; 

•Integrate with the aesthetics of the new Highway Administration Buildings whilst relating to other surrounding buildings;

•Consider and implement international solutions in developing pragmatic, sensitive and sustainable design that achieves the best social, economic and environmental fit;

•Address the difficulties of site location and microclimate;

•Incorporate sustainable water management practices; and

•Minimise long term maintenance implications in addition to reducing capital costs.

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Image: Atkins China

We think we have done a great job.

Thanks to all the team who worked on the project over the years :


Davide MARVARDI

Nevena DILPARIC
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Eva MA

Vlady IVANETS

Victor ROBERTO

Aleksandra SARGAEVA 

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