The Judges Awards

07.2 Hong Kong

Asia's most dynamic city is on a roll. The new Cultural District in West Kowloon, a project headed by Graham Sheffield, former artistic director of London's Barbican, will feature an art museum and performance venues. The kingpin is Kohn Pedersen Fox and Wong & Ouyang's 484m International Commerce Center. Coldefy & Associés' Institute of Design and Zaha Hadid's Innovation Tower for the Polytechnic University are due to open in 2011. On Hong Kong Island, up-and-coming NoHo hosts the best design stores, while restoration projects such as David Yeo's Hullett House, part of a now-happening local hotel scene, reveal that Hong Kong may be ready to look back as well as forward.

New architecture: International Commerce Center

In progress: Campus for the Chu Hai College of Higher Education by OMA and Leigh & Orange Architects; West Kowloon Cultural District; Innovation Tower at Hong Kong Polytechnic University by Zaha Hadid

Hotels: Hullett House; The Upper House; East; W Hong Kong

Restaurants and bars: 208 Duecento Otto (see Best New Restaurant); The Chairman; The Parlour; The Pawn

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