Project Museum of Contemporary Asian Art "M»
Architectural Bureau of Herzog & de Meuron
Source: bloomberg.com

In 2017, Hong Kong will be a museum of modern art" M "is not inferior in terms of collection and Exhibit Space Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, as well as the MoMA and the Tate Modern. The other day in the museum building projects won the Swiss Office for Herzog & de Meuron, led by architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron. Lost in the struggle for the right to build the largest museum in Hong Kong architects Renzo Piano, Toeo Ito, Norwegian Snøhetta offices and other.

in the meeting "M", which is different to be called the Museum of Visual Culture will be presented to modern and contemporary Asian art, design, architecture, sound and video installations. We have not built the museum already have at their disposal a collection of about 1,500 works of Chinese art, donated Swiss collector Uli Sigg . The building of the "M" will be part of building under West Kowloon Cultural District with a total area of ​​40 hectares, which will house a museum, theaters, concert halls and other cultural institutions. The construction of the museum alone "M" allocated 4.98 billion Hong Kong dollars (642 million U.S. dollars). And the whole project will cost West Kowloon in Hong Kong to HK $ 23.5 billion.

Museum of Contemporary Asian Art looks to be something like a giant video screen. The building will consist of a wide horizontal part, be located where all the main exhibition space, and the vertical part, which will house offices. The walls are covered with LEDs, so the building will be visible from all sides of the bay Victoria. The planned exhibition space "M" is 17 thousand square meters, ie twice from Tate. This scale museum builders of the future museum executive director Lars Nittve explains the relevant scale of Chinese contemporary art.

Prepared by Mary Onuchina, AI

Sources : bloomberg.com , artinvestment.ru