Grand Designs

We meet one of the citys top residential designers and hear about her recent prestigious award.

It was 2014 when BRITTA BUTLER, a Harvard and MIT graduate, decided to set up her own architecture and interior design firm, B Squared Design. Seeing a gap in the Hong Kong market, she seized the opportunity to create a full-service firm.

This decision has paid off in spades, with Britta’s unique and bold creativity resulting in her winning the REA Interior Design Award 2018 for the Residential Category. The award recognised the work she had done on a Mid-Levels flat, which involved a multi-level, full-scale redesign of a unique duplex on Kennedy Road, transforming the apartment into a stylish gallery, home, restaurant and office in one.

We sat down with the design dynamo, a mother of two and a Hong Kong resident of 12 years, to find out more.

Congratulations on the award!

Thanks, I’m thrilled to have won it! It’s wonderful to be recognised for the work that I love to do. There’s so much that goes on behind the scenes for a project, and a lot of long hours dealing with issues that come up, so it’s extremely rewarding to receive recognition after completion.

Tell us a bit about the project.