The soon-to-open M+ museum in Hong Kong has bought the entire archive of influential British architecture collective Archigram, despite attempts to block the overseas sale.
Tens of thousands of drawings and models produced by the 1960s group will be moved from storage in the UK to the Herzog & de Meuron-designed M+, set to open later this year in Hong Kong's West Kowloon Cultural District.
The £1.8 million sale was approved by the UK's government's Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, despite an Arts Council committee recommendation to block it, reported the Architects Journal (AJ).
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M+ is set to become one of the world's most important art and design museums. The museum's curator-at-large Aric Chen previously told Dezeen M+ would put "Asia at the centre" of the narrative about design, rather than relegating it to the sidelines like Western curators tend to.
M+ has already opened a gallery in a mirrored pavilion, which is currently hosting a preview of the museum's Asia-centric collection.