曾设计多座省博物馆，为何他说香港故宫一定不能像北京故宫？

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2022年7月2日，香港故宫文化博物馆正式对公众开放，这座用时5年、耗资35亿港元建成的建筑成为了新的文化地标。中国日报香港版人物纪实访谈系列视频《黄金时代》对话香港建筑设计师严迅奇，从建筑中看一座城市的沧海桑田。

“你一定要站在这个最佳角度，看得最清晰，”作为香港故宫的建筑设计师，严迅奇对这座建筑的构造和细节如数家珍，“整个建筑有一种蓄势待发的型态，象征着我们中国文化处在一个重新起飞的历史时刻。”

"The whole building looks poised for take-off, just like the current status of Chinese culture," Rocco Yim explained to reporters as he stood in front of Hong Kong Palace Museum. As the architect, he knows the structure and details of the building well.

对于曾设计过广东省博物馆、云南省博物馆的严迅奇来说，五年时间来完成一座博物馆的设计和建造，也并不是易事。“这个项目是一个很大的挑战。”

Hong Kong Palace Museum is only one of Yim's astronomical masterpieces. He also designed the Guangdong Provincial Museum and the Yunnan Provincial Museum. Even for him, it was not an easy task to design and build a museum in 5 years.

通过多方讨论和评估，设计团队定下了几个基本的原则。“第一，香港这个建筑一定不可以像北京故宫博物院。”后者是六百年前建造的皇宫，是一个中国古建筑，而前者是一个以博物馆形式出现、展示北京故宫文化的博物馆，“因此香港故宫应该是一个符合香港都市文化特点的当代建筑。”严迅奇指出。

"First of all, this building was not intended to resemble the Palace Museum in Beijing." The latter is a palace built 600 years ago, an ancient Chinese building, while the former is a museum that showcases the culture of the Forbidden City.

“但我们同时需要这个建筑物能体现北京故宫文化的内涵。”严迅奇表示挑战越大，作为建筑师就越兴奋，因为这意味着更大的突破和惊喜。

"Hence, this building not only has to conform with Hong Kong's metropolitan culture, but is also meant to remind people of the Beijing Palace Museum’s culture," Yim said.

建筑给 严迅奇的第一次惊喜，出现在1983年。初出茅庐的年轻建筑设计师在法国巴黎巴士的歌剧院国际竞赛方案中拔得头筹。回忆当时的情况，他表示，在那个信息极不发达的八十年代，整个亚洲区的现代建筑艺术发展都落后于西方国家，作为中国的设计师拿奖是很艰难的。

In 1983, Yim won first prize in the international competition at the Bastille Opera in Paris, France. "It was difficult to win prizes at that time, when information was extremely underdeveloped, the development of modern architecture in the whole Asian region was lagging behind that of Western countries."

改革开放后，中国现代建筑设计水平显著提升，相继建成一大批国家重大工程项目，高楼大厦拔地而起，城市面目焕然一新。

Following China’s reform and opening up, the country’s modern architectural design has improved significantly, and a large number of national construction projects have been completed.

“中国建筑业近年的发展速度令人惊奇，很难估计内地十年后可以发展到什么程度，又能快到什么程度。”严迅奇表示，建筑风格的变化可以反映出时代的变迁，从万丈高楼平地起到旧建筑的修复和保育，从讲求效率和实际到追求人性化的空间，每一座建筑都印证着城市和社会追求的变化。

It’s difficult to estimate where the level of development of the modern architecture on the Chinese mainland will be in the next 10 years; Yim said that "each building bears witness to the change of urban and social pursuits".

从业四十余年，从香港的特区政府大楼和国际金融中心，到深圳前海交易广场和香港中文大学深圳校区的整体设计，严迅奇始终认为，扎根本土文化才能设计出好的建筑，“我觉得其实不要太过于介意，我们的作品是否被西方接受，因为建筑最终应该服务本地社会。”

Yim has helped draw Hong Kong's outline by applying various architectural designs during his career over the past 40 years. "Personally speaking, we don't need to be overly worried about whether our products will be accepted by the West, since architecture's primary goal is to serve the local community and our own culture," he said.

好的建筑是什么？是审美的碰撞和人文情怀的倾诉，也是一代人的集体回忆和一座城的历史文化。建筑永远默默不语，但它记得每一个时代的答案。

制作人：薛婧琪

责编：吴玮莹

监制：史小凤

出品人：周立

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