Five years ago, Swiss architects Herzog & De Meuron completed Tai Kwun in Hong Kong, a former British police station and prison-cell compound turned cultural centre. If ever there was a building haunted by the ghosts of a colonial past, this was it: a dense network of structures of control set around prison yards and parade grounds. Their newer building M+, which bills itself as “Asia’s first global museum of visual culture”, is almost its exact opposite.
五年前,瑞士建築事務所赫佐格和德梅隆(Herzog & De Meuron)在香港完成了大館(Tai Kwun)的設計。大館曾是英國殖民時代的警署和監獄,後來變成了文化中心。它是一座無比典型的被殖民歷史的幽靈所困擾的建築:圍繞著監獄院子和閱兵場的密集建築構成了嚴密控制的結構網路。而這家建築事務所的新作品,自稱爲「亞洲第一個全球視覺文化博物館」的香港M+博物館,則幾乎完全相反。