Architect Bing Thom Realises Homecoming Dream With Cultural Contract

By Kylie Knott, South China Morning Post
March 11, 2013 

If I was offered the chance to do one project, this would be it,” architect and designer Bing Thom says of the project that has lured him back to the city of his birth. His Vancouver-based Bing Thom Architects, in association with Hong Kong architects Ronald Lu & Partners, recently beat four other finalists in being chosen to design the HK$2.7 billion Xiqu Centre for opera, the first of 17 cultural venues to be built in the West Kowloon Cultural District. “It was a great moment and a true homecoming,” he says. More … http://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/article/1186390/architect-bing-thom-realises-homecoming-dream-cultural.