Craft, technology and "evolving notions of copying" are among the themes explored by one of the broadest collections of Asia-centric design, which has just gone on display in Hong Kong's new West Kowloon Cultural District. More
The forthcoming M+ museum has opened its first exhibition space in Hong Kong's new cultural district: a mirror-clad pavilion that cantilevers out of a hillside (+ slideshow). More
News: Herzog & de Meuron has revealed the latest images of its design for M+, the new museum of visual culture that recently broke ground in Hong Kong's West Kowloon Cultural District (+ slideshow). More
News: construction is now underway on M+, a new museum of visual culture in Hong Kong's West Kowloon Cultural District designed by Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron. More
News: the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority (WKCDA) has appointed Asian curator Doryun Chong as chief curator of Hong Kong's forthcoming M+ museum of visual culture. More
News: Swiss architecture studio Herzog & de Meuron has been selected to design a visual culture museum in Hong Kong's new West Kowloon Cultural District. More
Chinese New Year begins today and celebrations in Hong Kong include Cantonese operas performed at a pop-up bamboo theatre in the new West Kowloon Cultural District. More
News: six international teams, including Herzog & de Meuron, SANAA and Renzo Piano, have been shortlisted to design a new visual culture museum in Hong Kong's new West Kowloon Cultural District, while two Hong Kong-born architects have been chosen to design a centre for Chinese opera (above) in the same area. More
News: Aric Chen, curator of design and architecture for the new M+ museum for visual culture in Hong Kong, says the museum will take an unprecedented stance in "placing Asia at the centre" of design history, rather than on the periphery as western curators have done (+ audio + transcript). More
Dezeen Wire: design critic and curator Aric Chen (above) has been appointed curator of art and design for M+, a new museum for visual culture in Hong Kong. More
Dezeen Wire: Foster + Partners have been shortlisted to design the Xiqu Chinese Opera Centre, the first in a series of new arts and cultural venues for the West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong Kong.
Collaborating with local studio O Studio Architects, the firm is one of five in a shortlist that also includes Safdie Architects, Mecanoo Architecten, Wong & Ouyang (HK) Ltd. and Bing Thom Architects. More
Dezeenwire: architects Foster + Partners' City Park proposal has been selected as the preferred option for the masterplan for the West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong Kong, beating designs by OMA and Rocco Design Architects.
The decision was announced today by the Board of West Kowloon Cultural District Authority (WKCDA).
See the announcement on the WKCDA site. See our earlier stories on the proposals by Foster + Partners, OMA and Rocco Design Architects.
Hong Kong firm Rocco Design Architects are competing with OMA (see our story here) and Foster + Partners (see our story here) to create a master plan for the West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong Kong. More
UK architects Foster + Partners have also announced their proposed masterplan for the West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong Kong. More
Rotterdam architects OMA have announced their proposed masterplan for a new cultural district in Hong Kong. More