Libeskind making headlines again.Studio Daniel Libeskind Daniel Libeskind, (born May 12, 1946 in Łódź, Poland) is a Polish-born Jewish American architect, who has designed many prominent and celebrated buildings, including the Jewish Museum in Berlin, Germany, the Denver Art Museum in the United States, the Imperial War Museum has been appointed design team leader for a striking new 350,000 s/f Creative Media Centre on the Hong Kong Hong Kong (hŏng kŏng), Mandarin Xianggang, special administrative region of China, formerly a British crown colony (2005 est. pop. 6,899,000), land area 422 sq mi (1,092 sq km), adjacent to Guangdong prov. campus of the City University of Hong Kong The university has a community of more than 12,000 undergraduates and 6,000 postgraduates. International students account for around 5% of the student population. The official language of instruction is English. . The $100 million (US) Creative Media Centre will be principally funded by the Hong Kong Government and offer some of the finest media and educational facilities in Asia. In addition to the School of Creative Media, the Centre will also house the Centre for Media Technology and the Department of Computer Engineering and Information Technology. The University has also reached a tri-partite agreement with the Beijing Film Academy and the University of Southern California's School of Cinema-Television to facilitate educational exchanges and collaborations. The Centre is planned to be completed in four years. "The building will be an architectural icon for the arts, the University and Hong Kong itself," said City University President, Professor H. K. Chang. "It will be an inspiration for all who become part of it," he said. Mr. Chang noted that the 9-story building's distinctive crystalline design will contain a rich variety of forms, open spaces and light, presenting an inspiring environment for creativity and research. "This is an extraordinarily vibrant building that both literally and figuratively opens new horizons for culture and sets free the creative imagination," said Mr. Libeskind. Studio Daniel Libeskind was chosen for the assignment after a global search and selection process. Local Hong Kong architects Leigh and Orange will collaborate on the new Centre along with global engineers Arup, and Hong Kong quantity surveyors, Levett and Bailey. Mr. Libeskind's best known designs include the Jewish Museum Berlin The Jewish Museum Berlin (Jüdisches Museum Berlin) is a museum in Berlin covering two millennia of German Jewish history. The Jewish Museum in Berlin was originally founded on Oranienburger Straße in 1933. It was closed in 1938 by the Nazi regime. , the Imperial War Museum North in Manchester and the Post-Graduate Centre at the London Metropolitan University London Metropolitan University is a university in London. It was formed on 1 August 2002 by the amalgamation of London Guildhall University and the University of North London. . Mr. Libeskind is the master planner for the redevelopment of the World Trade Center site in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. and his design team, CityLife--A project for Milan, was recently selected to create the master plan for the historic Fiera di Milano fairgrounds n. pl. 1. same as fairground. in Milan. |
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