Royal Peninsula Harbour-View Duplex, Modern Home Cover Story

The text below is a translation of the original Modern Home feature.

In December 2021, Modern Home magazine ran its issue 522 cover story on this Artwill project. The piece opens with a question: what really defines the grandeur of a big home? Its answer is not ornament, but proportion, zoning, and how the view is handled.

This roughly 1,792 sq ft flat at Royal Peninsula in Hung Hom has two great assets: a panoramic view of Victoria Harbour, and ceilings of nearly twelve feet. Design director Regina Kwok used floor-to-ceiling glazing to pull the view indoors, keeping the living and dining areas free of unnecessary partitions so sightlines reach right out to the Hung Hom waterfront. The tall ceilings and vertical lines add a further sense of depth.

Materials sit between the understated and the opulent, with stone, wood veneer and metal worked together. A large marble feature wall anchors the living room, while an oval dining table and layered pendant lighting soften the scale of the home. One consistent palette and clean architectural lines tie everything together, so the sense of grandeur is built in rather than piled on.

What the cover story shows is simple: place the view, the ceiling height and the proportions well, and a fresh kind of grand home follows. The full project can be seen on its project page.

Originally published by Modern Home, Issue 522 · Cover Story · December 2021