Asia Society
Hong Kong
Project Type: New Construction/Adaptive Reuse
Seat Count: 120
Opening: 2009
Architect: Tod Williams Billie Tsien & Associates
AD Scope: Acoustics, Audio, Video
Asia Society, founded in 1956, is the leading global organization working to strengthen relationships and promote understanding among the people, leaders, and institutions of Asia and the United States. Their new facility in Hong Kong will incorporate the adaptive-reuse of a Magazine Barracks built for the British at the turn of the 20th Century. The Barracks are to be converted into a 120 seat theater which will include dressing rooms, storage, control booth plus support spaces. The space has been carefully designed and detailed to support both Western and traditional Chinese performing art forms.
Also included in the project is a multi-purpose gallery space located within a new Entry Pavilion building of approximately 25,000 sq. ft.. The gallery space will have black-out and acoustical curtains, sliding wood panels and an acoustically-designed ceiling to accommodate a wide range of conference and meeting events.
