Successful architecture of any scale is contingent upon a clear understanding of needs and effective collaboration between everyone involved in delivery of a project. These pre-requisites apply as much to the largest and most complex projects as well as the smallest. The architect’s function in this collaborative undertaking is to translate a statement of needs into a form that is efficient, that will stand the test of time and that improves and adds value to the environment. Founded in 1972, today Dennis Lau and Ng Chun Man Architects & Engineers (HK) Limited (DLN) is an international architectural practice of 300 personnel headquartered in Hong Kong with branch offices in Abu Dhabi, Shenzhen, Beijing and Macau. The firm’s ethnically diverse teams have worked on some of the most interesting and dynamic architectural projects spanning Europe, the Middle-East and many Asian regions. Internally, they are promoting constant growth towards green designs with a dedicated in-house specialist department as well as a growing team of green qualified professionals. DLNs portfolio of building projects is rich and varied. From skyline-changing skyscrapers, luxury hotels and residents to award-winning convention centres, university buildings, hospitals, industrial and logistic structures, we strive to add value via intelligent integration that suits to different social, cultural and historical contexts. The constant in DLN’s approach to any project is to exhaustively interrogate the potential of a new development to add value value to client through higher revenue or lower cost, value to the environment through energy-saving and remediation, value to the end-users and society as a whole through amenity and urban renewal. Such interrogation demands energy, skill and open-minded creativity and includes every aspect of a project from its basic engineering design to its marketability and life-cycle environmental impact.