Rocco Design Architects
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| Rocco Design Architects Associates Limited | |
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| Key architects | Rocco S. K. Yim |
| Founded | 1982 |
| Location | Hong Kong |
| Significant works and honors | |
| Buildings | Hong Kong station,Citibank Plaza,Guangdong Museum. |
| Projects | West Kowloon Cultural District(in selection process) |
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| Traditional Chinese | Nghiêm tấn kỳ kiến trúc sư sự vụ công ty hữu hạn | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | Nghiêm tấn kỳ kiến trúc sư sự vụ công ty hữu hạn | ||||||||||
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Rocco Design Architects Associates Limited(Chinese:Nghiêm tấn kỳ kiến trúc sư sự vụ công ty hữu hạn), led by Rocco Yim, is a design architectural practice based inHong Kong.[1]It is responsible for the design of many iconic buildings in Hong Kong andGuangdong province,including the Hong Kong Government Headquarters,iSQUARE,One Peking Road,Yunnan Museum andGuangdong Museum.It employs 160 staff inHong KongandShenzhen.
Rocco S.K. Yim founded its predecessor firm Rocco Design Architects Limited in March 1979. Patrick P.W. Lee joined Rocco Design Partners in June 1980.
The firm exhibited four times at the Venice Biennale in 2002, 2006, 2010 and 2012. In 2015, the practice was invited to showcase their work at Architecture Forum Berlin, in the dedicated Exhibition titled "Intensity: the works of Rocco Design Architects, Hong Kong".[2]
Awards[edit]
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The firm has received numerous awards, ARCASIA Gold Medals in 1994 and 2003, the Chicago Athenaeum Architectural Awards in 2006, 2011 and 2013, the Kenneth F. Brown Award in 2007, and the World Architecture Festival category winner in 2011.
Within the latest projects, The Yunnan Museum, opened to the public in 2015, has received a "HKIA Hong Kong Medal of the Year", and two Honorable Mentions at the International Design Awards 14 and Architizer Awards 2016.
Notable works[edit]
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- Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen Campus[3]
- Bao'anCultural Complex[4]
- Wesleyan House Methodist International Church[5]
- iSQUARE
- Yunnan Museum
- HKSAR Government Headquarters
- One Peking Road[1]
- Citibank Plaza[1]
- Man Yee Building
- China Online Centre
- Victoria Towers
- Guangdong Museum
- Hong Kong Palace Museum
Gallery[edit]
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One Peking Road -
iSQUARE -
Guangdong Museum
Further reading[edit]
- Being Chinese in Architecture: Recent Works in China by Rocco Design.2004.ISBN978-9-889761-02-8.
- Presence: The Architecture of Rocco Design.2013.ISBN978-9-881858-32-0.
- Reconnecting Cultures: The Architecture of Rocco Design.2013.ISBN978-1-908967-00-8.
- City in Architecture: Recent Works of Rocco Design Limited.Images Publishing Group. 2006.ISBN978-1-876907-22-8.
References[edit]
- ^abcKristal, Mark (July 2008)."Detour: Hong Kong".Dwell Magazine.pp. 192–198.Retrieved2012-01-28.
- ^Forum, Aedes Architecture."INTENSITY - Aedes Architecture Forum".aedes-arc.de.Retrieved2017-05-19.
- ^Johnston, Georgina."Shenzhen campus of the Chinese University of Hong Kong completed".World Architecture News.Retrieved2020-05-27.
- ^"rocco design architects associates completes library and cultural center for complex in shenzhen".designboom | architecture & design magazine.2019-12-02.Retrieved2020-05-28.
- ^"Rocco Design Architects creates skyscraper church in Hong Kong".Dezeen.2019-10-31.Retrieved2020-05-28.
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