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West Kowloon Cultural District Supports Earth Hour in HK

27 Mar 2022

M+ Facade before lights-off
Photo: Winnie Yeung @ VISUAL VOICES
Courtesy of West Kowloon
Cultural District Authority

West Kowloon Cultural District supports Earth Hour, Hong Kong

The West Kowloon Cultural District (the District) switched off non-essential and decoration lights for an hour in all venues of the District tonight in support of Earth Hour 2022, a worldwide lights-off event organised by WWF, for the first time to raise the public awareness of climate change and sustainable development.

M+ Facade after lights-off
Photo: Winnie Yeung @ VISUAL VOICES
Courtesy of West Kowloon
Cultural District Authority

At 8:30pm on the 26 March 2022, non-essential and decoration lights in the WKCDA Tower, the Art Park, Freespace, the Hong Kong Palace Museum, M+ and the Xiqu Centre were switched off for an hour. The iconic LED facade of M+ also participated for the first time by going dark at the same time to show the museum’s support to the annual green event. The West Kowloon Cultural District Authority encourages its staff to join the campaign at home by switching off unnecessary lights from 8:30pm to 9:30pm during Earth Hour.

About the West Kowloon Cultural District
The West Kowloon Cultural District is one of the largest and most ambitious cultural projects in the world. Its vision is to create a vibrant new cultural quarter for Hong Kong on forty hectares of reclaimed land located alongside Victoria Harbour. With a varied mix of theatres, performance spaces, and museums, the West Kowloon Cultural District will produce and host world-class exhibitions, performances, and cultural events, providing twenty-three hectares of public open space, including a two-kilometre waterfront promenade

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West Kowloon Cultural District Buildings

M+
Design: Herzog & de Meuron with TFP Farrells and Arup

photo : Edman Choy, Courtesy of Herzog & de Meuron
M+ Museum of Contemporary Visual Culture, HK