The Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre is a vibrant arts-centre-cum-artists-village that was converted from an industrial building in Shek Kip Mei vacated since the 1970s with a donation of HK$94.4 million from the Club. Opened in September 2008, it provides affordable venues where budding artists and arts groups can work in their own studios, while displaying art works or give experimental performances in the public spaces. The conversion work won the 2008 Medal of the Year, awarded by the Hong Kong Institute of Architects.