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A new Hong Kong icon China State Construction Engineering has built the Hong Kong Palace Museum, which is set to open in mid-2022 in West Kowloon’s Cultural District. CM reports ocated in the West Kowloon Cultural District, the seven-storey Hong Kong Palace Museum (HKPM) is a remarkable building, wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, shaped to resemble an ancient Chinese cauldron called ‘Fang Ding’ – a vessel with a square body
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and four legs – representing strength, power, respect and heritage. Designed by Rocco Yim and constructed by China State Construction Engineering (Hong Kong) Limited (CSHK), various details of the museum building echo those of the Palace Museum in Beijing’s Forbidden City.
After five years in the making, the Hong Kong Palace Museum is set to open in July 2022
To imitate ancient city walls, large parts of the museum’s exterior walls are covered with fair-faced concrete along with facade cladding. The unique aluminium ceiling in the atriums extends from the ground to the four-storey exhibition hall, and the atriums connect the different floors of the
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