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The WhitneyHong Kong© 2022

The Whitney

Building an elevated brand for a skyline-shaping high-rise

The Whitney is a contemporary office building developed by the Texwood Group in the up-and-coming Kwun Tong neighbourhood of Hong Kong. Designed with the Texwood Group’s characteristic innovative and boutique signature, The Whitney caters to the collaborative and creative spirit of industry-leading companies and professionals who want to build their businesses. With lofty goals for its loft-style high-rise, the Texwood Group engaged BaseCreate to craft a brand fitting the property’s stature.

We helped develop a property brand that reflected the holistic offering and entrepreneurial appeal of the office building. Following in-depth research into cutting-edge business properties and global co-working successes, we created a brand and name centred around the concept “Building Space for Inspiration” – capturing the cosmopolitan, collaborative and contemporary essence of a place that gives creativity the space to grow.

Bringing the new building’s brand to life

Taking inspiration from recognisable buildings in world-class cities like New York City and London, our naming research focused on associating this new property with the reputation of those memorable buildings. We selected "The Whitney" because of its association with the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, which collects, interprets and exhibits the finest holdings of contemporary American art and artists – much like the people and ideas targeted by the Texwood Group’s newest property.

Synergy between space & creativity

The Whitney captures a synergy between space and creativity, so we designed the website to do the same. In the seamless flow of one page, the website balances space, design elements and information to introduce The Whitney in a user-friendly and engaging way.

"BaseCreate has created remarkable work for The Whitney building that helped us define not just this individual building but the new direction in which we are heading as a group"

Ben Wong
Assistant General Manager,
Towereed Properties Development Ltd (Texwood Group)

Inspired by typographic posters, street signs, universal iconography and other design elements found in urban environments

The brand identity reflects The Whitney’s modern reinterpretation of industrial American loft-style workspaces. Each component is sophisticated, identifiable and communicates an urban twist, including contrasting colours, iconography and bold typography. The Whitney’s full logo is contemporary with urban inspiration, but the simplified "The W" icon represents the brand quickly. 

Thanks
Big thanks to Ben, Jeff and Norman for giving us the opportunity to work on this inspiring project.