【明報專訊】Herzog & de Meuron (in partnership with TFP Farrells and Arup), the architects of M+, have chosen to embody the much-awaited museum of contemporary art facing our Victoria Harbour waterfront in an inverted T form. With its minimal but towering form, M+ is meant to be billed as ''an Asian version of Tate Modern'', only ''more radical'', Jacques Herzog, the partner of the eponymous architect practice, told the Guardian in late October this year, right before the museum's grand opening. Referring to Mr Herzog and his firm as architects must be an understatement. The Guardian does more justice by calling them ''starchitects'', meaning that ''a few celebrated practices were invited to furnish ambitious cities with museums and concert halls and skyscrapers and stadiums, all competing to look more striking and innovative than one another.'' Such unmistakably ambitious cities span from London, Dubai, Jerusalem, Beijing to Hong Kong and unsurprisingly more are earnestly joining the competition.