New Architecture at Tai Kwun
A film about the vision behind Tai Kwun's new architecture featuring Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron. The film takes a closer look at the decisions made to build infrastructure such as the concrete bridges and aluminum façade of Tai Kwun, taking us through the revitalised site, bridging heritage and contemporary in this historical venue.
New Architecture at Tai Kwun conveys how architecture can be simultaneously political, social, psychological, with different feelings and emotions that can be evoked simply by walking through the buildings.
Clips from the Audio Guide and film:
That’s typically what we like to do in all of our projects where we work with existing structures, where we try and find the potential which we want to make even stronger and make it the character or the driving force of the entire site or the building or the project.
Ascan Mergenthaler, Senior Partner, Herzog and De Meuron
Our interventions are trying to offer spectacular new spaces and visages in an unspectacular way because we don’t use iconic architecture and forms, but we try to enhance the spectacle of the given.
Jacques Herzog. Herzog and De Meuron Architects
