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Swiss architects Herzog and de Meuron have visited their museum construction site in Hong Kong's Victoria harbour for the first time. The 60,000-square-metre museum dedicated to art, design, architecture and film is scheduled for completion in 2018. (SRF/swissinfo.ch)

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