Hong Kong museum seeks architectural ideas

Plans for ‘M+’, a museum for visual culture in Hong Kong, are progressing as architectural practices around the world are invited to submit expressions of interest in an architectural design bid. Scheduled for completion in 2017, the building will cover 60,000 square metres –on a par with the Museum of Modern Art in New York – and will house a world-class permanent visual culture collection from Asia and beyond. Michael Lynch, Chief Executive Officer of West Kowloon Cultural District Authority, who was formerly Chief Executive of the Sydney Opera House and London’s South Bank Centre, described the ambition for M+ to be “the flagship visual arts venue for The West Kowloon Cultural District and for Hong Kong.”