London Design Design Of the Year

2024

K11 MUSEA

Entrant Company

K11 Concepts Limited

Category

Architectural Design - Retails, Shops, Department Stores & Mall

Client's Name

K11 Concepts Limited

Country / Region

Hong Kong SAR

K11 MUSEA, the most important piece of the 10-year regeneration project of Victoria Dockside, is shaped by 100 Creative Powers hailing from different disciplines and cultures, including local artists, architects and designers alongside international names.

Each design element of K11 MUSEA has been carefully curated, inviting visitors to slow down, be inspired and discover their inner muse.

As soon as visitors walk into K11 MUSEA, they step into K11’s Journey of Imagination. K11 MUSEA’s atrium, the Opera Theatre presents hundreds of meticulously positioned lights that evoke curiosity and creativity, resembling a galaxy or a mysterious body of stars. Upon closer inspection, the seemingly random lighting forms a spiral “galaxy of creativity” within K11 MSUEA. Key features inside the Opera Theatre are the organic and root-like sculpture Escalating Climbers, that weave skywards over two-floor towards the heart of the muse - the Gold Ball, a multi-dimensional space for exhibition and events. Wrapped in gleaming latticework around delicate triangular cuts of glass, the luminous Gold Ball appears to float under the ceiling sculpture, Oculus. The 35-metre atrium casts a cathedral effect with feathery rays of filtered sunlight that falls onto the seemingly living structure beneath.

A new benchmark for green design has been set with Nature Discovery Park, the city’s first urban biodiversity museum and sustainability-themed education park, host to a variety of rare plants and butterflies alongside an outdoor aquarium. The provision of a podium rooftop, Bohemian Garden offers a breath-taking pet-friendly oasis for visitors.

With 300+ glass tubes at the façade, K11 Art & Cultural Centre and K11 Sculpture Park is the first in-mall multi-purpose cultural space catered for museum-level art pieces, rendering K11 MUSEA a perfect hub to propagate culture, facilitate idea exchange among talents from around the world.

Sunken Plaza, a 2,000-sq. ft. amphi-theatre enclosed by a 5.5-metre-tall conical shaped glass panels animated by a programmable wrap-around water feature, offering visitors a fully immersive experience.

K11 MUSEA offers unique customer journey spanning retail, culture, art, design, architecture and nature and provides a space where consumers and communities can come together to get inspired.

Credits

Lead Architect/ Kohn Pedersen Fox
Bill Louie
Lead Architect/ Kohn Pedersen Fox
Forth Bagley
Architect/ Kohn Pedersen Fox
Florence Chan
Architect/ Kohn Pedersen Fox
Kazuki Katsuno
Architect/ Kohn Pedersen Fox
Jonathan Zane
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