About Wesley

PhD Candidate – School of Architecture & Urban Design (RMIT)
Master of Design (UNSW)
AIA (Assoc.), BEAM (Assoc.)
Executive Member – Hong Kong Interior Design Association (HKIDA) 2011-2024
Vice Chairman – Hong Kong Interior Design Association (HKIDA) 2021-2024
Board Member – Asia Pacific Space Designers Association (APSDA)

Wesley Liu is a designer who believes that space should do more than perform; it should feel, age, and quietly improve the way people live.

Known for interiors that balance warmth with clarity, and playfulness with depth, Wesley’s work consistently challenges the outdated notion that design must choose between style and substance. His projects, ranging from intimate private residences to public cultural spaces, are often described as calm, human, and quietly expressive, with a strong sensitivity to material, light, and everyday rituals.

Educated in Australia, Wesley graduated with a Master’s degree in Design from the College of Fine Arts (COFA), University of New South Wales, before returning to Hong Kong to work with leading practices including CL3 Architects. In 2009, he founded PplusP Creations, guided by a simple but demanding idea: design works best when passionate designers collaborate with passionate people.

Over the years, Wesley’s work has received wide international recognition, including the Best of Year Award (USA), Architecture MasterPrize (USA), JCD/ KUKAN Design Award (Japan), International Property Awards (UK), Design for Asia Award (Hong Kong), Perspective Awards, A&D Trophy Awards, and the Asia Pacific Interior Design Awards. He was named Perspective’s 40 Under 40 twice — first in Interior Design (2012) and later in Architecture (2022) — a rare distinction that reflects the breadth of his practice rather than a shift in discipline. In 2016, he was also honoured as one of the Ten Most Outstanding Young Persons.

While accolades follow the work, they have never defined it. Wesley’s design philosophy is rooted instead in curiosity, trial and error, and lived experience. His creative instincts are shaped as much by travel and cultural immersion as by formal training, particularly his long-standing connection with Japan, where Zen thinking, craftsmanship, and restraint continue to influence his approach to space, time, and making.

From 2010 onward, Wesley played an active role in shaping regional design dialogue across Asia-Pacific, serving on professional boards and initiating cross-cultural platforms that connected Hong Kong with Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, and beyond. After more than fifteen years of sustained involvement, he has stepped away from formal institutional roles, choosing instead to focus on practice, research, and deeper one-to-one collaborations. The networks remain; the noise does not.

Today, Wesley brings this accumulated cultural perspective into his work: a hybrid sensibility formed through movement, observation, and making. His projects often reveal an understated humour, a respect for imperfection, and a belief that good design should feel effortless, even when it isn’t.

In parallel with practice, Wesley is currently undertaking doctoral research at RMIT University, Melbourne, where his work explores improvisation, intuition, and reflective practice in interior design. The research does not seek to explain creativity away, but to better understand how designers think, adapt, and act under real conditions.

Driven by curiosity rather than trends, and conviction rather than formula, Wesley continues to design spaces with what he calls “a bit of soul.”