"Design Team: Angela Pang, Charlotte Lafont-Hugo, Gilles Vanderstocken, Henry D'Ath, Janice Chan Consultants: RNB (E&M contractor), MRW (Window contractor) Collaborators: United Soundfair (Major Works contractor), POTT (Fitting-out contractor) Text description provided by the architects. The Kiang Malingue headquarters is the fifth collaboration between the Hong Kong based gallery and BEAU."
"As so, it embodies their common ambitions to critically deconstruct the identity and experience of art spaces while addressing challenges related to cultural and environmental sustainability. Located on a steeped street in the Wan Chai District, the project adapted a typical Hong Kong 1960s housing tong lau into a vertical art gallery."
Design leadership included Angela Pang, Charlotte Lafont-Hugo, Gilles Vanderstocken, Henry D'Ath and Janice Chan, with consultants RNB (E&M) and MRW (windows) and collaborators United Soundfair and POTT. The Kiang Malingue headquarters marks a fifth collaboration between the Hong Kong gallery and BEAU. The design embodies ambitions to critically deconstruct the identity and experience of art spaces while responding to cultural and environmental sustainability challenges. The site sits on a steep street in Wan Chai. The intervention converted a typical 1960s Hong Kong tong lau into a vertically organized art gallery, reusing heritage urban fabric.
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