Case Study · Financial Services · Hong Kong
A Front-of-House Standard for a Global Investment Bank at Two IFC
Vendor-neutral AV design consultancy from concept to commissioning across 40,000 sq ft at Two IFC — a divisible meeting room and one-touch rooms built to a consistent standard.
- Location: Two IFC, Central, Hong Kong
- Size: Approximately 40,000 sq ft across two floors
- Services: AV design consultancy, design through to commissioning
The Challenge
When a global investment bank committed to two floors in one of Hong Kong’s most prestigious towers, the brief was clear: the technology had to match the address. Client-facing spaces needed to feel effortless and polished, while the working floor needed dependable, consistent collaboration tools that staff could walk in and use without thinking.
The centrepiece was a large divisible meeting room. Divisible spaces are where AV designs most often fail: rooms that sound wrong when combined, control systems that confuse the people using them, and partitions that take a technician to reconfigure. The bank wanted the opposite, a room that could host a town hall in the morning and three separate client meetings in the afternoon, with no friction in between.
Our Approach
PTS acted as the independent AV design consultant, taking the project from concept design through to commissioning. We are vendor neutral, so every recommendation was made on technical merit and fit, then tendered to the integrator market on the bank’s behalf.
For the divisible room, we designed the audio, video and control as one system that understands the state of the partition. Combine the room and the displays, microphones and loudspeakers behave as a single space; divide it and each room stands alone, each with its own simple, one-touch meeting experience.
Around it, we designed the full estate: meeting and huddle rooms built to a consistent standard so every room works the same way, a collaboration table for informal working sessions, a fully equipped executive office, and open-office displays carrying business content across the floorplate. Room data sheets, single-line diagrams and equipment schedules gave the integrator an unambiguous basis for pricing and installation, and we stayed on through delivery to inspect quality and witness commissioning.
The Outcome
The bank moved into a workplace where the technology recedes and the meeting takes over. Every room presents the same simple interface, the divisible space reconfigures in moments without technical support, and the front-of-house experience holds its own in a tower with some of the most demanding tenants in Asia.
The project also proved the value of independent design authority: a competitive integrator tender on a clear specification, and a commissioning sign-off that confirmed the bank received exactly what was designed.
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