Designed by Herzog & de Meuron in partnership with TFP Farrells and Arup, the new M+ building has recently wrapped up construction and is set to open to the public later this year. This permanent home for the museum of contemporary visual culture is prominently located in Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Cultural District on the Victoria Harbour waterfront.

The M+ building, exterior. Video: Fallout Media. Courtesy of M+

The 65,000 square-meter / 700,000 square-foot structure will house 17,000 square meters / 183,000 square feet of exhibition space across thirty-three galleries as well as three theaters, a mediatheque, a learning hub, a research center, museum shops, restaurants, a tea and coffee bar, a members lounge, office spaces, and a roof garden.

The M+ building, roof garden and LED facade. Video: Fallout Media. Courtesy of M+

"M+ certainly has the potential to become the major visual culture museum in Asia," said H&dM founding partner, Jacques Herzog. "It best expresses where we should go as a world culture, where diversity, equality, and access to art of all kinds are expressed from the very beginning. This kind of diversity and broadness is part of the DNA of M+. This makes it a museum that is very much locally inspired, but at the same time universal and open; it is for the people and visitors across the world."

The M+ building, interiors. Video: Fallout Media. Courtesy of M+

Find more photographs of the exterior and interior in the image gallery below.