Aedas is an architectural firm founded by the Welsh architect Keith Griffiths. Aedas employs 1,000 staff in its twelve offices in Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Singapore, Dubai, Riyadh, Delhi and Seattle and provides services in architecture, interior design, urban design, masterplanning and graphic design. It was established in 2002.

History

Establishment

Aedas was established in 2002 and opened its first China office in the same year.National enterprise credit information

Retrieved 21 June 2017 Aedas was appointed to design Fortune Plaza, Fortune Plaza 1 (2003). Other mixed-commercial projects in Beijing include, R&F City, R&F Plaza and R&F Centre in Beijing. The company set up offices in Macau (2004), Shanghai (2005) and Chengdu (2005). Aedas Singapore was appointed to design various rail works of Jurong East Integrated Transport Hub and MRT stations. Also, Aedas completed mixed-use and residential projects including The Star, Shaw Tower and Woodlands North Coast. In

Macau Macau or Macao is a special administrative regions of China, special administrative region of the People's Republic of China (PRC). With a population of about people and a land area of , it is the most List of countries and dependencies by p ...

, Aedas delivered its first integrated casino resort project,

Sands Macau Sands Macao () is a hotel and casino resort located in Sé, Macau, SAR - China. It is owned and operated by the Las Vegas Sands Corporation, and was designed by Steelman Partners, LLP. It comprises a casino, and a 289-suite hotel. Las Vegas ...

in 2004. Aedas was commissioned as lead architect for

The Venetian Macao The Venetian Macao () is a hotel and casino resort in Macau, China owned by the American Las Vegas Sands company. The 39-story structure on Macau's Cotai Strip has of floor space, and is modeled on its sister casino resort The Venetian Las Ve ...

(2007). The company was commissioned to design

Dubai Metro The Dubai Metro () is a rapid transit system in the city of Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The metro system consists of a network of two main lines: the Red Line and the Green Line. A third line, the Blue Line, is scheduled to open in 2029. Du ...

(2004). The Dubai office was established in 2005 and the Abu Dhabi office was set up in 2007. In 2010 and 2011, Ocean Heights, Boulevard Plaza and Ubora Towers, in Dubai, were completed. Aedas continues to expand its presence in the Middle East with plans to establish offices in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to seize emerging opportunities in the region. The company is planning to open an office in Cairo to support the delivery of a large-scale masterplan project in Egypt.

Notable projects

Hong Kong West Kowloon Station Hong Kong West Kowloon station (abbreviated WEK) is the southern Terminal station, terminus of and the only station on the Hong Kong Express Rail Link, Hong Kong section of the Guangzhou–Shenzhen–Hong Kong Express Rail Link, Guangshengang X ...

Hong Kong Hong Kong)., Legally Hong Kong, China in international treaties and organizations. is a special administrative region of China. With 7.5 million residents in a territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the wor ...

Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge The Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge (HZMB) is a bridge–tunnel system consisting of a series of three cable-stayed bridges, an undersea tunnel, and four artificial islands. It is both the longest sea crossing and the longest Intercontinent ...

Hong Kong Boundary Crossing Facilities (HKBCF) Passenger Clearance Building * Terminal 2 & Terminal 2 Expansion *

Hong Kong International Airport Hong Kong International Airport is an international airport on the island of Chek Lap Kok in western Hong Kong. The airport is also referred to as Chek Lap Kok International Airport or Chek Lap Kok Airport, to distinguish it from its predec ...

Midfield Concourse * Chongqing Gaoke Group Ltd Office Project,

Chongqing ChongqingPostal Romanization, Previously romanized as Chungking ();. is a direct-administered municipality in Southwestern China. Chongqing is one of the four direct-administered municipalities under the State Council of the People's Republi ...

, China (2022) * Hengqin International Financial Centre, Zhuhai, China (2020) * Star Performance Centre, One North, Singapore * Sandcrawler, Singapore * Heartland 66 Office Tower *

Dubai Dubai (Help:IPA/English, /duːˈbaɪ/ Help:Pronunciation respelling key, ''doo-BYE''; Modern Standard Arabic, Modern Standard Arabic: ; Emirati Arabic, Emirati Arabic: , Romanization of Arabic, romanized: Help:IPA/English, /diˈbej/) is the Lis ...

, UAE. *

Sunny Bay Station Sunny Bay () is an MTR station in Yam O. It is between Tung Chung and Tsing Yi stations. The station is an interchange station between the and the to Hong Kong Disneyland. The station was originally to be named ''Yam O'' (); however, the ...

, Hong Kong * Trojena Ski Village, NEOM, KSA * Gidori, NEOM, KSA * The Ellinikon Commercial Hub, Athens, Greece * Lovi Center, Xi'an, China * Hangzhou Yuhang Headquarters & Industry Park Project, Hangzhou, China * OCT Ruiwan Tower, Shenzhen, China * T33, Shenzhen, China

Work in mixed-commercial sector (2010s)

Aedas' designed completed mixed-commercial projects include The Star in

Singapore Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in Southeast Asia. The country's territory comprises one main island, 63 satellite islands and islets, and one outlying islet. It is about one degree ...

(2012), Lè Architecture in

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(2017), Starlight Place in

(2011), Center 66 in

Wuxi Wuxi ( zh, s=无锡, p=Wúxī, ) is a city in southern Jiangsu, China. As of the 2024 census, it had a population of 7,495,000. The city lies in the southern Yangtze delta and borders Lake Tai. Notable landmarks include Lihu Park, the Mt. Lings ...

(2014),

Evergrande The China Evergrande Group was a Chinese property developer, and it was the second largest in China by sales. It was founded in 1996 by Hui Ka Yan (Xu Jiayin). It sold apartments mostly to upper- and middle-income dwellers. Evergrande was in ...

Plaza in

Chengdu Chengdu; Sichuanese dialects, Sichuanese pronunciation: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: ; Chinese postal romanization, previously Romanization of Chinese, romanized as Chengtu. is the capital city of the Chinese province of Sichuan. With a ...

(2015), Sincere Financial Center in

(2015), and

Olympia 66 Olympia 66 () is a major shopping complex in Xigang District of Dalian, Liaoning, China, designed by Aedas, which began construction in 2011. It is located on Wusi Road, one of the main commercial avenues in Dalian. Completed in 2015, Olympia 66 ...

Dalian Dalian ( ) is a major sub-provincial port city in Liaoning province, People's Republic of China, and is Liaoning's second largest city (after the provincial capital Shenyang) and the third-most populous city of Northeast China (after Shenyang ...

(2015). In 2006, Aedas established a Seattle office to expand its footprints and completed Building Cure. Aedas was included in Building Design magazine’s list of the world’s largest architectural practices since 2006. It remains in Top 15 to date.

Recent work

Aedas has completed more than one-hundred projects. Projects include: * Boulevard Plaza, Dubai, UAE *Centres of Central,

*Hong Kong International Airport Midfield Concourse and North Satellite Concourse, Hong Kong *

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, China * R&F Centre,

Guangzhou Guangzhou, Chinese postal romanization, previously romanized as Canton or Kwangchow, is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Guangdong Provinces of China, province in South China, southern China. Located on the Pearl River about nor ...

Guangdong ) means "wide" or "vast", and has been associated with the region since the creation of Guang Prefecture in AD 226. The name "''Guang''" ultimately came from Guangxin ( zh, labels=no, first=t, t= , s=广信), an outpost established in Han dynasty ...

, China * Express Rail Link West Kowloon Terminus, Hong Kong *

Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Xi'an is the capital of the Chinese province of Shaanxi. A sub-provincial city on the Guanzhong plain, the city is the third-most populous city in Western China after Chongqing and Chengdu, as well as the most populous city in Northwestern Chi ...

Central Building,

Suzhou Suzhou is a major prefecture-level city in southern Jiangsu province, China. As part of the Yangtze Delta megalopolis, it is a major economic center and focal point of trade and commerce. Founded in 514 BC, Suzhou rapidly grew in size by the ...

Jiangsu Jiangsu is a coastal Provinces of the People's Republic of China, province in East China. It is one of the leading provinces in finance, education, technology, and tourism, with its capital in Nanjing. Jiangsu is the List of Chinese administra ...

, China * Lè Architecture,

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, Taiwan *

Taichung Commercial Bank Headquarters The Taichung Commercial Bank Headquarters, also known as Taichung Diamond ( or ) is an under construction skyscraper located in Taichung's 7th Redevelopment Zone, Xitun District, Taichung, Taiwan. It will be the List of tallest buildings in Taich ...

Taichung Taichung (, Wade–Giles: '), officially Taichung City, is a special municipality (Taiwan), special municipality in central Taiwan. Taichung is Taiwan's second-largest city, with more than 2.85 million residents, making it the largest city in Ce ...

, Taiwan

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