M+ is hosting a guided tour of the Bank of China (BOC) Tower today (June 27), which will be led by Li Chung (Sandi) Pei. The tour is also led by the partner and founder of PEI Architects, Curator, Design and Architecture at M+, Shirley Surya, and architect responsible for the Bank of China Tower, Sherman Kung.
Our DotDotNews reporter asked Sherman Kung about the biggest challenge in building the BOC Tower. "I know how to build on obscure sites and become an icon of Hong Kong. I think it is very difficult," he said.
Our reporter also asked about the feng shui fight over the building of the BOC Tower and the HSBC Tower, which Kung said was a rumor.
In addiation, M+, Asia's first global museum of contemporary visual culture in the West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong Kong, will presentI. M. Pei: Life Is Architecture, the first full-scale retrospective of Chinese American architectIeoh Ming Pei(1917–2019), widely known as I. M. Pei, one of the most influential architects of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Generously supported by the Lead Sponsor Bank of China (Hong Kong), this Special Exhibition will open to the public fromSaturday,29 June 2024toSunday, 5 January 2025in the museum's West Gallery.
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