If you are a student of art, a busy executive or just visiting a friend who lives or works in the area, take a moment to appreciate one of Island East's stunning pieces of sculpture or paintings. This is a  collection of works that concentrate on complementing the space for which each is intended. Many of the pieces have a story or a meaning which can be found below, in the Island East Artwalk.

Probably commissioned especially for the occasion, the hanging combines a number of auspicious symbols and characters. The figures of the dragon and phoenix represent good luck and success, while the cranes symbolise longevity, and the prosperity of the company is augured by the embroidered peonies. The lions at play near the bottom of the piece are another auspicious element, but are also present to keep demons at bay.

The embroidery shows exceptionally fine craftsmanship and was  made by a well-known embroidery workshop called Fook Hing in Chong Yuen Fong (Foremost Scholar Lane), a street in Canton famous for its embroidery. The maker's name is recorded on the two streamers, which hang from the brocade.

Perfectly preserved in Swire's headquarters in London for nearly a century, the silk was returned to Hong Kong in 1997 and installed in Cityplaza One in 1999.

A multiple of 12 one by one metre acrylic paintings, entitled Hong Kong Windows, captivates its audience with its unique fusion of landscape and structural grids.  Created by Argentinean artist, Luciana Abait, it forms on the interior wall an illusion of rows of windows where the ideal landscape can virtually be overlooked.

Painted on very deep canvases, each of the twelve panels depicts an assortment of urban landscapes merged harmoniously with the blue and green of the skies and fields. An array of Swire's architecture, the surroundings and traffic signs taken from Hong Kong are ingeniously illustrated to add a friendly touch to the painting. Shadows and perspectives are playfully rendered, imparting a third dimension where audience can experience with the artist´s reflections about existentialism and surrealism.

Born in 1971 in the city of La Plata, Argentina, Luciana Abait studied painting with the renowned Argentinean masters Atilio Laguzzi and Ladislao Kelity and as an exchange student, art and literature in the U.S. and England. Many of Abait's works have been included in solo and group exhibitions in her homeland as well as Miami, Florida  where she now resides. Her promising works have earned a number of awards and contributed to public and private collections across the world.

The Four Seasons in Cityplaza One will provide hours of  fascination and intrigue to those who go and look at it. 9m long, the picture invites viewers to look through a long timeless line of arches to four partially visible landscapes painted to show the four seasons. But this is not all  there is to see. The bizarre perspective of the painting gives an astonishing illusion as the viewer walks from one side of the picture to the other - almost as if you were  immersed in the landscape and the perspective was changing as it would in three dimensions.

Hughes' pictures are paradoxes, and seem to exist in three dimensions. The spatial information they present seems self-contradictory, and the perspective and objects shown seem 'impossible'. His work has a magic and charm, reminiscent of de Chirico and the Surrealist School.

Many of Hughes' works can be seen in public collections in Britain and the US including the Tate Gallery, Victoria & Albert Museum, The British Library, Glasgow Museum of Modern Art in Britain and the University of  Houston, Texas. He has also written a number of books on art and illusion.

Located in the fifth floor of Cityplaza, the Zen Fountain delights children and adults with its giant water-pouring stone sphere which rhythmically fills and tips over with a chaotic rush of splashing water at unexpected moments.

Inspired by a Japanese Zen garden, the sculpture conveys the artist's concept of time, water, order and chaos. The installation is the only one in Hong Kong by Gitton.

Bernard Gitton is an internationally acclaimed artist and a pioneer in the field of technological and kinetic art. His astonishing creations have received high praise and can be seen in private collections and public establishments throughout the world.

The polished copper roundels and murals in the ground floor and first floor public areas are rich interpretations of the vibrant life of Island East - where residents, visitors and office workers rub shoulders in the shops, restaurants and offices of the area.

Commissioned in 1994, each mural carries a particular theme: Leisure, Shopping, Food and Community. While those in the lift lobbies were added later in 1998 and are named "Upwardly Mobile", the collection was further enriched with the installation of two murals on the mezzanine and first floors in 2000.

Joan Walsh-Smith and Charles Smith are a husband and wife team who have collaborated on many large scale works. They have completed numerous public commissions including sculptures in the Heineken Gallery in Amsterdam, Anzac Parade in Canberra and The Swan Fountain, Army Memorial and Burswood  Heritage Park in Perth. Closer to home, they created the Circle of Time at the University of Science and Technology in Hong Kong.