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title: "MVA’s Significant Project Tai Kwun – The Centre for Heritage and Arts, Wins Multiple Awards"
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# MVA’s Significant Project Tai Kwun – The Centre for Heritage and Arts, Wins Multiple Awards

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**Tai Kwun – The Centre for Heritage and Arts, has again been given two prestigious awards – the RIBA International Awards for Excellence 2021 and the Quality Building Award 2020.**

Tai Kwun (meaning ‘Big Station’) is the Centre for Heritage and Arts in Hong
Kong, formerly known as the Central Police Station in the colonial era. The
renovation and revitalisation project began in 2008, took twelve years of
making.

**Awards:**

- The RIBA International Awards for Excellence 2021
- The Quality Building Award 2020 – Grand Award in Hong Kong Building
  (Renovation/ Revitalisation) category

The RIBA International Awards for Excellence is globally recognised and awards
buildings that change the world. In 2021, there were 16 remarkable projects
which won the Prize, ranged from 11 countries. Tai Kwun, is the only winning
structure from Hong Kong. The award was presented in July 2021.

The Quality Building Award (QBA), an award co-organised by nine leading
professional institutions of the property sector in Hong Kong, recognised Tai
Kwun – The Centre for Heritage and Arts with Grand Award in the Hong Kong
building (Renovation / Revitalisation) Category.

**SYSTRA MVA as the Lead Traffic Consultant**

SYSTRA MVA provided professional traffic engineering and transport planning
consultancy services for the conceptual design stage and construction for Tai
Kwun. The revitalisation project has been recognised by several international
and local awards in which MVA contributed since 2008, led by local and
international Architects and conservation architects.

The historical site is the only winning structure from Hong Kong in the RIBA
recognition, and it also won the Grand Price – Hong Kong Building (Renovation/
Revitalisation) category in the latest QBA.

**Key Solutions:**

- Traffic Impact Assessment (TIA)
- Transport Planning – Pedestrian Forecast
- Traffic Improvement Works outside Site Boundary
- Construction Traffic Impact Assessment (CTIA) + Temporary Traffic Management
  (TTM)
- Implementation Roadworks Around the Site
- Temporary Relocation of Traffic Signal Light

_Photo source: RIBA © Edmond Leong_

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