The Stanley waterfront forms part of the popular beach strip that includes a relatively new shopping complex and nearby piazza. The project represents a long-term strategy to reinforce Stanley´s identity and maintain its competitive attraction relative to other tourist destinations. Overall, the objective is to highlight its existing characteristics as a vibrant beach town with a village-style market and to introduce a spacious boardwalk dotted with open-air cafes along the waterfront.

The plan is to remove existing structural barriers and expand the promenade, where necessary, in order to create a physically and visually integrated shore belt. Beginning from Murray House and running along the waterfront to meet the market village, the design builds on the existing sidewalk bar and cafe culture to create a newly defined tourist belt that celebrates Hong Kong´s diverse tastes in a carefree beach setting. Specific modifications have been carried out to enhance the visitor´s experience of the shore and its alfresco dining. An inner belt contains new market stalls and a piazza, elevated in relation to the boardwalk for improved visual contact with the sea.

Underlining the call for integration, a new pier is incorporated in the development plan. The pier is located near Murray House at the furthest end to this shore belt. Inspired by the colonial heritage of the area, Blake Pier have been restored and reinstated for public use. Built at the beginning of the last century, the Blake Pier once served as the landing place for new Governors and British royal dignitaries visiting Hong Kong, until this role was taken over by the first Queen´s Pier built in the mid-1920s at the waterfront near Connaught Road besides Blake Pier and Star Ferry Pier. The pier was demolished in the 1960s and the structure was re-used as a covered pavilion in Morse Park, Kowloon. Returning it to Stanley to fulfil its original purpose serves the goal of sustainable re-use. Additionally, the restoration of this example of public architecture from the last century is a fitting acknowledgement of Hong Kong´s heritage, blending harmoniously with its surroundings while enhancing the local characteristics and ambience of Stanley.

The existing seawall along Stanley Main Street has been realigned to create additional spaces for outdoor events and al-fresco dining. A timber boardwalk, varying up to 9m in width, will traverse the Chek Chue Wan waterfront, offering panoramic sea views and acting as a unifying feature connecting all elements of the waterfront improvement.

Our intention for the design of the Stanley Market Site is to create an open space that would compliment the adjacent promenade to be enjoyed by both general public and the tourist alike. An integrated approach has been adopted in the landscape design for the whole waterfront area.The existing temporary market, which sits in the middle of the open space has been relocated to the perimeter of the site in the form of kiosks. The idea is to define a plaza that provides a place for the public to gather as well as continuing the same design rinciples adopted for al-fresco dinning area at Stanley Main Street. The open space which overlooks the sea and at the same time completing the scent of the Stanley Waterfront would be a major tourist attraction to the contribution of the urban space in Hong Kong.The architectural language of the kiosks reinterpret the traditional sea-side structure of the local area such as the boat yards and the existing markets to form an unified syntax between the idea of the fragment and the permanent.