Tai Kwun (“Big Station”): Hong Kong, China

Hong Kong’s new Tai Kwun (“Big Station”) center, which opened in 2018, gives 16 historic police and judicial buildings new life as a 300,000-square-foot cultural complex. The site preserves 150-year-old structures—relics of Hong Kong’s tim e as a British colony—and incorporates two new structures.

Today, visitors can enjoy concerts and art exhibitions, sip cocktails in a jail that once imprisoned Ho Chi Minh, and admire the continuity between old and new architecture highlighted in the original-brickwork-inspired aluminum cladding enveloping the gorgeous JC Cube and JC Contemporary art galleries.