White Cube Hong Kong is a 600 square metre contemporary art gallery housed on the ground and first floor of a 27-storey building in Central Hong Kong. Visitors enter the gallery on the first floor of the building’s main circulation core into a long reception room which doubles as an art book store and browsing area. This central area leads to a large gallery space, staff offices and private viewing room. A new concrete stair leads from the first floor gallery to the ground floor gallery where visitors can exit directly to the street or the building’s main lobby. The spaces negotiated the existing building’s convoluted envelope to create a clear uncompromised volume. All art walls were designed to take a 500kg point load at any location and constructed to extremely tight tolerances. All mechanical equipment was concealed within the fabric in order to create a series of calm, uncluttered spaces for the display of art. Powerfloated concrete floors were poured throughout. All bespoke joinery was designed by Maybank and Matthews Architects.