East Kowloon Cultural Centre

With the rapid expansion of Hong Kong’s theatre landscape, Theatreplan is creating a new multi-auditoria venue as part of the ambitious East Kowloon regeneration strategy.

East Kowloon Cultural Centre is intended to become a hub for performance and community events across five different districts. It will provide a 1200-seat grand theatre, a 550-seat medium theatre, a 250-seat black box theatre, a 120-seat music lab and other supporting ancillary culture facilities and serve as a hub for hub for drama; Cantonese opera; dance performance and community events for districts around the old Kai Tak airport area. The venue is designed within a constricted site, situated as it is between two roads.

At an early stage in the project, we undertook research into the history and use of the thrust stage to provide the client with a thorough understanding of this new form of staging for Hong Kong. Working as part of the multi-disciplinary design team, Theatreplan is providing a complete theatre consultancy service across all venues, which includes auditorium design, seating layouts, and full technical infrastructure design.

In collaboration with the Hong Kong Government’s Leisure and Cultural Services Department Theatreplan has also delivered Health & Safety Management training in support of this new venue, and LCSD’s existing venue portfolio.

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