An heritage project with adaptive reuse, transforming the colonial military structures in the Explosive Magazine site into a place for cultural activities, quietly located in a preserved green environment in the heart of Hong Kong.

Asia Society Hong Kong Center is a collaboration project with Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects. It consists of a new pavilion building and the four existing buildings, connected by the new footbridge and covered walkway.

The two magazine buildings with high ceilings, deep verandas and solid granite walls, are converted into exhibition gallery and auditorium.

The new pavilion building forms the entry to the Center with a multi-purpose hall for events. The old laboratory and the “GG” block are converted into office, meeting and seminar spaces.

The new pavilion building use weathered stainless steel panels and glass wall to create a minimal yet modern structure suspended beneath a cantilevered concrete roof garden - a new public place above lush overgrown rainforest.

The building blocks are interconnection through a carefully design “Z-shape” bridge that meander its way through the rainforest.