
Excitingly, news of the Tai Kwun Centre For Heritage & Arts has spread around the world; Tai Kwun is in TIME’s Greatest Places of 2018. Here’s how they made their selection …

Excitingly, news of the Tai Kwun Centre For Heritage & Arts has spread around the world; Tai Kwun is in TIME’s Greatest Places of 2018. Here’s how they made their selection …



Already named in TIME magazine’s list of 100 greatest places for 2018, Tai Kwun has received a million visitors.

Model of the Mauretania outside the Caronia Restaurant, part of the QE2 Heritage Trail. The lighting within the case changed during the course of the day and fibre optics had been painstakingly installed inside the model itself so that, when guests arrived or left the restaurant in the evening, the model ship glowed as if there was a party in full swing.

And so, after nearly six years I thought it time (with some trepidation) to return to the Hong Kong Wetland Park (HKWP) to see how it is faring. It represents, after all, five years of my life as Director of Research with the designers MET Studio.