A Hong Kong office that feels like home – design duo behind AB Concept show you how it’s done
In their office in Tsim Sha Tsui’s K11 Atelier, Ed Ng and Terence Ngan take a personal, playful approach, and it works
Stepping into Terence and Ed’s new place feels reassuringly familiar. The rooms might be just built, but the designer and architect duo have brought with them much-loved pieces gathered during two decades of travels. And there, making herself at home by the fireplace, is their dog, Ah Fook.
For all its cosy domesticity, this is actually a place of work. Ed Ng and Terence Ngan, co-founders of design studio AB Concept, decided to up stumps from Causeway Bay and move this year to new premises at K11 Atelier, the mixed-use office-tower component at Tsim Sha Tsui’s Victoria Dockside.
The move sees Ng returned to his childhood neighbourhood, where the pair also live.
“This is where I grew up: where my mum went to work, where I went to school and where my parents would take me on weekend outings,” he says.
This is where I grew up: where my mum went to work, where I went to school and where my parents would take me on weekend outings
In those days it wasn’t so glamorous as now, but the partners reasoned that “Victoria Dockside is where exciting things are happening”, and they wanted to be in the middle of it for creative inspiration.
With more people working from home – including Ng and Ngan most days – the partners felt a homelike environment would be more productive.