Foster + Partners Chosen to Design Hong Kong Cultural District

Foster + Partners has bested Rocco Design Architects Limited and Office for Metropolitan Architecture in the competition to design the 99-acre masterplan for Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Cultural District, the harborfront arts and culture hub that is being funded by the government. Dubbed “City Park,” Foster + Partners’ carbon-neutral masterplan “sets the cultural buildings as the jewels in a new urban quarter” alongside a 57-acre public park. “City Park will be the catalyst to transform the city locally and regionally, as well as on the world stage,” said Norman