Tadao Ando   China   The project is an opera house in a cultural complex that is anticipated to shape the core of the cultural zone of Jiading New Town, a suburb which is developing rapidly based on its car industry, and that is 30 km northwest of Shanghai. Owing to the

Wutopia Lab   China   Any self-respecting young person of the 18th century – and who had the means to – returned from his Grand Tour loaded with objects to display at home as mementos of his travels, a rite of passage so vital to his education and aesthetic sensibility. S

Jean Nouvel   China   Split up by a covered central passageway connecting two streets – Ma Dang and Dan Shui – in Shanghai’s Huangpu district, this complex contains 25,000 square meters of office space and 15,000 of commercial units. The location is in what was part of th

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

Miralles Tagliabue EMBT   China   A carpet of green hills stretches on the south side of the square, and on it rest a caleidoscopic building that reflects the context and wooden bleachers for multiple uses. The blue pavement takes inspiration from the sea, recalling the meaning of ‘S

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   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

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

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

Junya Ishigami + associates   China   Located in the Lujiazui financial district of the economic capital of China, the retail store of the eyewear brand JINS is conceived as a large central space free of structural obstructions, making for optimal circulation of customers and flexible pr

Snøhetta   China   The new opera house of Shanghai, with its sculptural roof of spiraling steps leading down to a square beside the Huangpu River, will contain three auditoriums seating 2,000, 1,200, and 1,000.

Ábalos + Sentkiewicz   China   The Madrid firm of Iñaki Ábalos and Renata Sentkiewicz designed this temple that has been distinguished with the 2019 FAD International Award. Serving a Christian community, it marks the southern entrance into the New Bund urban development of southe

Miralles Tagliabue EMBT   China   The current structure of the area lacks spaces with the capacity to promote public life, so the new Fudan campus wishes to create a new social hub for the community. Its pieces are connected with each other and with the other schools by a new green s

David Chipperfield   China   The West Bund Museum is a major new art gallery on the northern bank of the Huangpu River, and forms a key part of the West Bund Master Plan, which envisages a new cultural district on former industrial land. The museum occupies a triangular plot at

David Chipperfield   China   Following the establishment of international trading relations in 1842, with the Treaty of Nanking, Shanghai became a major East Asian commercial and cultural center. The arrival of European businesses and consulates influenced architecture in the ea

Playze Architects   China   The visitor center of the ecological farm is formed by stacking containers, whose surfaces are perforated in accordance with geometric patterns and which are connected to one another by bridges of iron structure.

MVRDV   China   The new bridge will connect the old town of Zhujiajiao, a quaint old village with numerous canals, with new residential developments, maximizing the space for pedestrians and including a grandstand overlooking the water to foster social activities by

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 –

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

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

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

Philip Enquist   Una isla aluvial y de uso agrícola situada al norte de Shanghái se convertirá, gracias a un plan diseñado por SOM, en un distrito próspero y ‘verde’ para dos millones de personas. 

Con el habitual despliegue de fuegos artificiales y espectáculos de masas humanas que acompaña las celebraciones chinas se inauguró el 1 de mayo la Exposición Universal Shanghái 2010, que permanecerá abierta hasta el próximo 31 de octubre.

Enrique Domínguez Uceta    En la desembocadura del río Yangtsé, frente a Corea y Japón, crece con determinación un coloso de energía imparable siguiendo un plan que nada parece capaz de frenar: ni las crisis internacionales ni la prevención del mundo hacia el permanente increm

El País   Luis Fernández-Galiano   La Expo de Shanghái propone prolongar el carnaval al tiempo de Cuaresma. Cuando buena parte del mundo sufre aún los efectos de la crisis financiera, y todo él se enfrenta al impacto del cambio climático y a las mutaciones del modelo económico, energé

El macroestudio americano Gensler, que emplea a unos 2.600 profesionales en más de treinta oficinas en Estados Unidos y el extranjero, ha diseñado la Torre Shanghai en la ciudad del mismo nombre. Con 128 plantas, 632 metros de altura y 380.000 metros