Travels with Aedas
by Anneliese O'Young
Aedas, HK$180 (HK$70 to charity)
From Hong Kong's futuristic Sunny Bay MTR station and Macau's 4.7-square km Venetian, through Guangzhou, Wuxi and Beijing to Russia, Poland, Britain, the Middle East and the Americas, Travels with Aedas is a showcase of international architectural design.
Aedas, the second-largest architecture firm on the planet, with 2,500 staff in 40 offices across 18 countries, is responsible for some of the world's most imaginative and eye-catching buildings.
Dubai's twisting-spined 25-storey Iris Crystal and the 518-metre Pentominium - the world's tallest residential building - are two examples of the kind of visually stunning projects the company undertakes.
In the Americas, which accounted for more than 11 per cent of the company's turnover in 2006, Aedas has taken on a role in the construction of the plaza at New York's National September 11 Memorial and Museum at the World Trade Centre site, due to open in 2011 on the 10th anniversary of the attacks. The plaza, named Reflecting Absence, designed by Michael Arad and Peter Walker in association with Davis Brody Bond Aedas, 'comprises a 24,000-square-metre field of trees with two large voids of reflecting pools situated on the footprint of the fallen towers'.