Hong Kong Palace Museum located at the harbour front of the West Kowloon Cultural District, the exterior walls are covered with fair-faced concrete along with facade cladding of golden curved aluminium perforated panels, creating an effect of glazed tiles. The lighting design highlights the curvature at night with a play of light and shadow.

The façades look simple and subtle from afar, but a closer look reveals their extreme complexity and sophistication. They consist of 4,022 decorative aluminium panels and metal meshes, of different shapes, patterns and curvatures…

A work by Hong Kong Rocco Design Architects, echo with the design of the Beijing and Taipei Palace Museum, engineering a contemporary structure of classic Chinese visual and spatial aesthetics