The West Kowloon Cultural District is a 40-hectare waterfront arts district on reclaimed land with 17 venues. Foster and Partners won the masterplan with the City Park plan, selected on March 4, 2011. The West Kowloon Cultural District Authority, a statutory body, was set up on July 11, 2008. The first phase opened in 2015. The article gives no style.
Venues include M+ by Herzog & de Meuron, which opened in November 2021. The Xiqu Centre, by Revery Architecture and Ronald Lu & Partners, opened in January 2019. The Hong Kong Palace Museum, by Rocco Design Architects, opened on July 3, 2022. Costs were at least HK$21.6 billion.
An earlier design competition from 2001 chose a Foster canopy design, which was scrapped in 2005. Kowloon and Austin MTR stations and West Kowloon Terminus serve the district.
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