Herzog & de Meuron   China   Devoted to contemporary visual culture, the M+ Museum is the flagship of a project that seeks to transform the city into an artistic hub with an international reach. On the banks of Victoria Harbour, the museum is organized in an inverted T, with a s

Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation Marta Catalán Eraso   China   In the artificial landscape of the old aerodrome, the project proposes inhabited mountains – able to improve the environment and promote civic encounter –, exploring architecture’s capacity to subvert the dialectic between natural and built territory

Herzog & de Meuron   China   The former Central Police Station, Central Magistracy and Victoria Prison, known to the locals as ‘Tai Kwun’ (or big station), is a walled compound of heritage buildings at the commercial center of Hong Kong Island. Established by the British after 1

Herzog & de Meuron   China   M + is a cultural center for 20th and 21st century art, design, architecture, and the moving image. As such, it embraces the entire spectrum of spaces, means of display and activities related to exhibiting and viewing these media. The spaces range fr

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture   China   On a verdant hill overlooking Castle Peak Bay in Hong Kong’s New Territories, the new campus of Chu Hai College comprises three faculties (with ten departments), two research centers, staff housing and education facilities for students such as librar

Zaha Hadid Architects   China   Curving and lit from above, the ramps and footbridges of the building trace complex organic voids that could not possibly have been built without BIM systems.

The Network Architecture Lab   China   To generate a critical stance around the problem of city growth and to promote political change, the team has produced a newspaper, The New City Reader, and an urban strategy table game placed in the context of Hong Kong in 2047. 

MAP Office   China   To reduce demographic pressure, the team proposes adding eight artificial islands to Hong Kong’s territory, very dense and compressed between mountains and sea. With eyes set on the future, each one of them embodies a local value. 

Emmi Keskisarja Pekka Tynkkynen LEAD   China   The surface is generated by means of two catenary curves that intersect with the ground level; a series of inner sheets of adhesive film make it possible to generate the curve of the thermo-formable plywood pieces at a lower temperature. 

Foster + Partners   China   West Kowloon Cultural District will establish a major centre for music, performing and visual arts on a harbour-front site in Hong Kong. The seventeen new cultural venues will support everything from traditional Chinese theatre to pop concerts and op

Herzog & de Meuron   China   The former Central Police Station and Victoria Prison, located in Hong Kong Island, is a walled compound of heritage buildings established by the British after 1841 as the colony’s main police station, magistracy, and prison. Today the site is one of

Set amid the tight mass of skyscrapers of Hong Kong, Herzog & de Meuron’s new Tai Kwun Art and Heritage Centre may be modest in size, but certainly not in conceptual aspiration nor in originality. Beyond the talent of its architects, this signals som

The Guardian   Photographer Peter Stewart has always felt drawn to the urban density and scale of big cities, and it’s a common theme through much his photography. ‘I like to create images that often lack a single point of interest, with the visual hook, so to spea

Born in Colorado in 1966 and established in Singapore, Peter Steinhauer reflects through his photographs his interest in urban themes and also a fascination with Asia, the continent where he has lived for over twenty years, capturing the different re

Born in France in 1987, this young visual artists’ passion for photography arose after his arrival in Hong Kong in 2008. Fascinated by the density and effervescence of the district of Kowloon, where he lives since 2009, Jacquet-Lagrèze started to por

La propuesta de Foster+Partners ha sido la seleccionada para diseñar el plan director del distrito West Kowloon, en el corazón de Hong Kong, que se convertirá en uno de los mayores complejos culturales del mundo. El proyecto ganador ha sido finalment

La universidad Chu Hai ha elegido la propuesta presentada por OMA, en colaboración Leigh &Orange, para el diseño de su nueva sede: tres facultades —letras, ciencias y empresariales—, diez departamentos y dos centros de investigación. El programa

In 1992, Foster and Partners won the competition to build a new airport for Hong Kong. To be placed, like Osaka’s Kansai (whose competition Foster lost to Piano in 1988) on an artificial island, the huge building was to be the largest construction pr

In the year 1979, the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank made a double gesture of confidence: in the future of the colony after its devolution to China, building 100.000 square metres of lavish office space in the city; and in Norman Foster, commissioning t