The West Bund Museum, Shanghai Building Project, Chinese Architecture Images
The West Bund Museum in Shanghai
Contemporary Building Project in China ? design by David Chipperfield Architects Ltd
4 Nov 2019
The West Bund Museum
Design: David Chipperfield Architects Ltd
Location: Shanghai, People’s Republic of China
The West Bund Museum opens to the public on 8 November 2019

image © David Chipperfield Architects
The West Bund Museum is a new art gallery on the Shanghai Corniche, an 8.5 kilometre frontage on the northern bank of the Huangpu River. The promenade connects the Xuhui district to the historic Bund and forms a key part of the West Bund Masterplan, which envisages a new cultural district over nine square kilometres of former industrial land. The museum occupies a triangular plot at the northernmost tip of a new public park, at the point where Longteng Avenue and the river converge. A raised public esplanade above the flood plain surrounds the building, offering views to the river. The edge of the esplanade on the east side is delineated by a continuous series of steps with landing stages leading to the riverbank. The site offered the opportunity to create a completely freestanding structure and its location allowed for improved access to both the river and the park.
The building consists of three main gallery volumes placed in a pin-wheel formation around a central lobby with a double-height atrium. This configuration allows fordifferent components of the mu...