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The new M+ building’s deceptively simple, inverted T-shape shows that visual art museums don’t always have to be extravagant, dramatic edifices as expressive as the artwork inside them. The Hong Kong structure’s refreshingly nuanced, material-led and site-specific austerity belies the museum’s content – which is dedicated to 20th-and 21st-century visual culture – and ambition.

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