Bing Thom Architects have released new images for Hong Kong?s Xiqu Centre, designed in collaboration with Ronald Lu & Partners. Currently under construction, the building is scheduled for completion in 2017, becoming the first venue to open within the new West Kowloon Cultural District. The Xiqu Centre will serve as the home of the Chinese Opera, as well as play host to an array of cultural events.

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Bing Thom Architects have released new images for Hong Kong?s Xiqu Centre, designed in collaboration with Ronald Lu & Partners. Currently under construction, the building is scheduled for completion in 2017, becoming the first venue to open within the new West Kowloon Cultural District. The Xiqu Centre will serve as the home of the Chinese Opera, as well as play host to an array of cultural events.
Conceived as a cultural sanctuary containing spaces for theatre, art and contemplation, the project draws inspiration from ?the soft glow of a lantern behind a beaded curtain,? lighting up the street through four main openings and a series of lightboxes on the building?s elevation. The center?s form reinterprets the traditional Chinese motif of the Moongate to become the gateway into the cultural district ? master planned by Foster + Partners ? and expresses the concept of ?qi? or flow through its curvilinear paths and elements.

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To enable the ground floor...