In Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Cultural District, masterplanned by Foster + Partners, has been completed the M+ museum of visual culture. Designed by Herzog & de Meuron in collaboration with the architecture studio Farrells, it is located on the coast of Victoria Harbour and is dedicated to visual art, architecture, design and moving image.
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The porject consists of two volumes, one vertical and another horizontal, which intersecating each other form the shape of an inverted T. The three-storey horizontal volume contains the majority of the public facilities: galleries, lecture halls, a shop and a research center. The interior is in concrete and the foyer is diagonally cut by a lightwell, around which is developed the museum's main circulation. Above the horizontal block, which is topped with a roof garden, a tower reaches other 12 floors. Designed to give to the museum a presence on the harbour skylinet, it hosts office spaces and is topped with restaurants, bars and a sky garden as well.
“For art to enter into the life of a city like Hong Kong it has to come from below, from its own foundations,” said Jacques Herzog, “Our M+ Project does exactly that, by literally emerging from the city's underground”.