Wong Tung & Partners can lay claim to being the first condominium developer in Hong Kong, as Mei Foo Sun Chuen was their first major project, in 1969.
Starting life as a small team, the architectural firm now employs more than 450 professionals in Hong Kong and the mainland. Staff levels built up as it designed and planned several landmark projects in Hong Kong over the past four decades.
The firm has continued to work on big projects, such as Taikoo Shing, Eastern Hospital, Hong Kong Park, Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the Sheraton Hong Kong.
It has also expanded to the United States, Thailand, the Philippines and the mainland. These projects have helped the company gain recognition and a reputation locally as well as among overseas professional institutions.
'The first major project was the Mei Foo Sun Chuen. It was the first and largest condominium in Hong Kong at that time, and probably also in the world,' says Edward Ho Sing-tin, the company's deputy chairman and managing director.
In the present sluggish property market, the company has been working twice as hard to sustain its position.