Hong Kong Cultural Centre
Hong Kong Cultural Centre
Architecture
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
”The new Hong Kong Cultural Center stands on one of Hong Kong's finest waterfront sites, looking out over Victoria Harbor with its quaint wooden fishing junks and busy passenger ferries parading past the colony's glistening glass and metal skyscrapers. But the $77 million center, designed by a committee of government architects, has no windows. The only opening onto one of the most magnificent waterfront views in the world is a narrow slit of glass that runs up a wall of the low, angular pink-tiled building. While many people involved in the arts here believe that the sophisticated new center marks the colony's cultural coming of age, much of its significance has been obscured by the debate over its design.”
- Barbara Basler, The New York Times, January 1, 1990.
