M+ Museum Building Hong Kong, West Kowloon Cultural District HK Development, Victoria Harbour Waterfront Architecture Images
M+ Museum Building in Hong Kong
15 Mar 2021
M+ Museum Building
Architects: Herzog & de Meuron, in partnership with TFP Farrells and Arup
Location: West Kowloon Cultural District, Victoria Harbour waterfront, Hong Kong, China

The M+ building, viewed from Victoria Harbour. Photo © Virgile Simon Bertrand – Courtesy of Herzog & de Meuron
M+ has reached the important milestone marking the completion of construction of the museum building. With the Occupation Permit for the museum building obtained on 24 December 2020, M+ is set to open to the public at the end of 2021.

Designed by a global team of the world-renowned architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron in partnership with TFP Farrells and Arup, the M+ building is set to become a new addition to the global arts and cultural landscape and a new international architectural icon. Located in Hong Kong?s West Kowloon Cultural District on the Victoria Harbour waterfront, it provides a permanent space for M+, the first global museum of contemporary visual culture in Asia dedicated to collecting, exhibiting, and interpreting visual art, design and architecture, moving image, and Hong Kong visual culture of the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries.
The commanding architectural form consists of monumental horizontal and vertical volumes?an expansive podium and a strikingly slender tower?ref...