STAR SYSTEM
On a late evening in July, billionaire Hong Kong developer Adrian Cheng points a laser beam at a single light bulb, one of 1,800 scattered across the ceiling of the 35m-high atrium in his newest and most ambitious project yet. The atmosphere Cheng wants to create is that of a sparkling galaxy, and this is best achieved through a diverse range of lighting intensities, so he is identifying each light and adjusting their illumination one by one.
The process is painstaking, but Cheng has spent ten years considering almost every detail of his bold new ten-storey retail-and-art complex,
