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Rocco Design Architects

Field	Value
name	Rocco Design Architects Associates Limited
architects	Rocco S. K. Yim
city	Hong Kong
founded
significant_buildings	Hong Kong station, Citibank Plaza, Guangdong Museum.
significant_projects	West Kowloon Cultural District (in selection process)

|}} Rocco Design Architects Associates Limited (), led by Rocco Yim, is a design architectural practice based in Hong Kong. It is responsible for the design of many iconic buildings in Hong Kong and Guangdong province, including the Hong Kong Government Headquarters, iSQUARE, One Peking Road, Yunnan Museum and Guangdong Museum. It employs 160 staff in Hong Kong and Shenzhen.

Rocco S.K. Yim founded its predecessor firm Rocco Design Architects Limited in March 1979. Patrick P.W. Lee joined Rocco Design Partners in June 1980.

The firm exhibited four times at the Venice Biennale in 2002, 2006, 2010 and 2012. In 2015, the practice was invited to showcase their work at Architecture Forum Berlin, in the dedicated Exhibition titled "Intensity: the works of Rocco Design Architects, Hong Kong".

Awards

The firm has received numerous awards, ARCASIA Gold Medals in 1994 and 2003, the Chicago Athenaeum Architectural Awards in 2006, 2011 and 2013, the Kenneth F. Brown Award in 2007, and the World Architecture Festival category winner in 2011.

Within the latest projects, The Yunnan Museum, opened to the public in 2015, has received a "HKIA Hong Kong Medal of the Year", and two Honorable Mentions at the International Design Awards 14 and Architizer Awards 2016.

Notable works

Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen Campus
Bao'an Cultural Complex
Wesleyan House Methodist International Church
iSQUARE
Yunnan Museum
HKSAR Government Headquarters
One Peking Road
Citibank Plaza
Man Yee Building
China Online Centre
Victoria Towers
Guangdong Museum
Hong Kong Palace Museum

Gallery

File:One Peking Road.jpg|One Peking Road File:ISQUARE 200907.JPG|iSQUARE File:Guangdong Sheng Bowuguan 2012.11.18 09-35-49.jpg|Guangdong Museum

References

Kristal, Mark. (July 2008). "Detour: Hong Kong". Dwell Magazine.
Forum, Aedes Architecture. "INTENSITY - Aedes Architecture Forum".
Johnston, Georgina. "Shenzhen campus of the Chinese University of Hong Kong completed". World Architecture News.
(2019-12-02). "rocco design architects associates completes library and cultural center for complex in shenzhen".
(2019-10-31). "Rocco Design Architects creates skyscraper church in Hong Kong".

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