HK Architects in Guangdong
Rocco Yim's design has beaten 8 other international architects' proposals and was chosen for the new Guangdong Museum.
The design that resembles a Chinese antique "treasure container" with a superfluously decorative outlook contributes a fitting theme for a museum, distinguishing itself from the other schemes. The hard and simple rectangular contour probably saves it from visually overdone and overwhelmed by a (traditional) theme, and gives it a futuristic appearance on the contrary. It oddly reminds me also of Hellraiser's Lament Configuration Box, referring again to those tantalizing objects of the dead.
News Guangdong mentions the "box" as a sharp contrast to the under-planning Guangzhou Opera House in oval shape:
Then I rediscover both landmarks-to-be (in 3 years) of the Guangzhou cultural zone are winning works by Hong Kong architects. Tung, the Chief Executive of the HKSAR Government, was prompt to address the news and congratulated Rocco as a local talent, whose work was awarded way back in 1983 as one of the three first-prize winners for the Bastille Opera in Paris. Pathetically, our government can acknowledge we do have talents only when they are approved by the others. Hopeless. I can't help recalling how Rocco's counter-proposal for the Central Library of Hong Kong a few years ago lost disastrously to the ugly giant standing now in the centre of the Island.
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