David Chipperfield   China   An outpost of the Centre Pompidou rises on the banks of the Huangpu as part of a project to transform the industrial margin of the riverbed into a new cultural district. The museum takes up three volumes clad in iridescent recycled glass, which stand

Open Architecture   China   The firm headed by Li Hu and Huang Wenjing, Open Architecture, working from offices in New York and Beijing, has designed a campus for the Qingpu Pinghe International School in Shanghai, which has students aged 4 through 18. One of the buildings, the

Horizontal Design   China   Within Shanghai’s Qingpu district lies the historical Zhang Yan Village, where the Shenzhen practice of Ju Bin, called Horizontal Design, has renovated and refurbished a series of structures and transformed then into part of a museum, fragmented into

Ferrier Marchetti Studio   China   The Paris practice of Jacques Ferrier and Pauline Marchetti built this complex of office buildings in Shanghai. Interconnected by spaces covered with vegetation, the sober blocks were designed according to their positions on the site. In spite of the

Nendo   China   Shanghai Times Square within the Pudong district is the result of working on a nine-floor commercial building containing over 53,000 square meters of space. The objective was to accommodate 170 establishments, mostly fashion and lifestyle stores but

Wutopia Lab   China   To build a church within a church: this was the intention of Wutopia Lab for one of Shanghai’s most emblematic bookstores. The first church addressed by the project is an Orthodox temple raised in 1932, the walls of which have been kept intact and th

Heatherwick Studio   China   Under the motto ‘Better City, Better Life,’ the Universal Expo of Shanghai 2010 gathered over 200 countries, inviting them to reflect on issues like urban development, well-being, and sustainable growth. Aside from the usual requisites, one of the br

Heatherwick Studio   China   Designed by Heatherwick Studio together with Foster + Partners, the new finance center takes up the last plot available in the Bund of Shanghai, on the shores of Huangpu River, in a strategic site located between the colonial buildings by the waterfr

Foster + Partners   China   Norman Foster’s firm has won the competition to design the new offices of the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba. The location is Shanghai’s Xuhui Riverside area, with views of the Huangpu River and the Pudong CBD. Thought out from the inside out, a gr

Heatherwick Studio   China   Following the success of the UK Pavilion for the 2010 Shanghai World Expo, the studio came into contact with clients in Asia and was invited to design a large mixed-use development – including residential, hotels, retail, and commercial units – on a

Kengo Kuma   China   On the southern shore of Huangpu River, in the financial district of Pudong in Shanghai, an old shipyard built in 1972 is transformed into a mixed-use complex with shops, a theater, and an exhibition space. The main challenge of the project was to ma

The Barcelona practice led by Benedetta Tagliabue has placed first in the international competition to redevelop Century Square on East Nanjing Road in the city of Shanghai, strategically located between People’s Square and The Bund.The scheme submit

After the enormously successful architectural and corporate adventure that Apple was, the British firm Foster + Partners has won the bid to raise headquarters for another giant of our globalized world, Alibaba, a China-based leader in online retail a

Shanghai Biennale   Andrés Jaque is an architect, writer, and curator internationally renowned as one of the initiators of interscalar and transmedium approaches to urban and territorial studies. His work explores environments as the entanglement of life, bodies, techno

With works like the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet behind it, the firm Snøhetta, based mainly in Oslo, has triumphed in the international competition for the privilege of building the Shanghai Grand Opera House, in conjunction with the Chinese s

Power Station of Art   From April 19 to July 21, 2019, Shanghai’s Power Station of Art will present an exhibition dedicated to the French-Swiss photographer Hélène Binet. It is her first solo institutional exhibition in China. The exhibition will offer a comprehensive over

Spoon & Tamago   Johnny   In what is a masterful feat of structural engineering, architect Junya Ishigami has sculpted concrete cantilevered display shelves that are up to 12-meters (39-feet) long. Ishigami designed the interiors for Tokyo-based eyeware brand JINS, who have o

The recently opened Shanghai Tower in the Pudong district of China’s economic capital, has taken its place as the second tallest building in the world, after the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. Soaring 632 meters and 128 floors, the new supertall skyscraper –

En Jiading, un suburbio situado al norte de Shanghái, el estudio local Atelier Deshaus —liderado por Liu Yichun y Chen Yifeng— ha construido la primera de las quince escuelas infantiles que la Administración ha encargado para dar respuesta al crecimi

El estudio EMBT (Miralles Tagliabue) ha sido el ganador del concurso internacional para el nuevo campus de la Universidad de Negocios Fudan en Shanghái, con instalaciones para 8.000 alumnos. Compuesta por una serie de bloques dipuestos en torno a un

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The Shanghai Expo proposes extending Car-suffering from the effects of the financial crisis, and the whole of it faces the impact of climate change and the mutations of the economic, energy and territorial model that circumstances impose, China once

Acaba de inaugurarse la nueva sede corporativa del Grupo Giant —una de las mayores empresas de videojuegos interactivos— diseñado por Morphosis en Shanghái. Situada en un campus semiurbano, el edificio flanquea varios canales y un lago artificial, de