M+ Design Competition

The West Kowloon Cultural District (WKCD) is one of the world's largest and
most ambitious arts and cultural building programmes which will deliver up
to 17 new performing arts and visual culture facilities, open spaces,
education, commercial and retail facilities as part of a new cultural hub
being developed with funding from the Hong Kong SAR Government.


M+ will be the new museum for 20th and 21st century art and visual culture
in the WKCD. M+ is an ambitious project, to create a museum on the physical
scale of the world's largest museums of visual culture, aspiring to over
time attain an international status comparable to that of MoMA in New York,
Centre Pompidou in Paris or Tate Modern in London. It aims to be a museum
that is rooted in and shaped by its location – Hong Kong – and the unique
culture of this city: it is fundamental that it should be a museum for the
people living and working here. M+ should have a Hong Kong point of view
with a global perspective.


The Competition is to select the best combination of concept design and
Design Team. It is intended to select the Design Team that demonstrates it
will be best able to work with the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority
(WKCDA) to develop its building concept to be an excellent place for 20th
and 21st century visual art, design, architecture, moving image and popular
culture, enjoyable to visit, while being efficient and cost effective to
construct and operate. WKCDA is looking for a concept design that is
original, ed with the overall master plan, sustainable and which
reflects the exciting and unique programme of M+.


The WKCDA invites Expression of Interest (EOI) from experienced and
qualified Design Teams interested in pre-qualifying for the Competition to
select a concept design and a Design Team for M+.