Shanghai Hongqiao Performing Arts Center / BAU Brearley Architects + Urbanists

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Changning, China
  • Design Team: James Brearley, Steve Whitford, Han Jiang, Huaili Luo, Shuai Liu, Hui Song, Qingan Yang, Wen Xia, Emma Rytoft, Yu Rong, Fuming Li
  • Landscape Team: Robin Armstrong, Li Luo, Yongqing Liang, Qi Cheng
  • Documenting Architect And Engineer: Qingdao Times Architectural Design Co.Ltd
  • Cinema Tech: Shanghai Paradise CineTech Co.Ltd.
  • 3 D Rendering: BAU
  • Client: Shanghai Changning Cultural Bureau
  • Acoustic Design And Consultant: Shanghai Research Institute of Building Sciences Co. Ltd
  • Theater Stage Technicals: Zhejiang Dafeng Industry Co., Ltd.
  • City: Changning
  • Country: China
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Shanghai Hongqiao Performing Arts Center / BAU Brearley Architects + Urbanists - Exterior Photography, Facade, Windows
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highly visible
The project is located in Tianshan Road, the new commercial boulevard in Hongqiao, one of Shanghai’s high activity districts. It is surrounded by brightly lit shopping malls built this century. This development replaces and expands on the existing state run cinema centre on the site. The project was the subject of three rounds of invited competition over 5 years before BAU was contracted to design the project.

Shanghai Hongqiao Performing Arts Center / BAU Brearley Architects + Urbanists - Exterior Photography, Facade
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Shanghai Hongqiao Performing Arts Center / BAU Brearley Architects + Urbanists - Exterior Photography, Facade
© He Shu

exposure to difference
This project includes both traditional and modern programs of mass entertainment: theatre (1000 seats) and cinema (seven of various capacities). Usually seen as separate programs and increasingly supported by distinctly different user groups, this project presents the opportunity for the two different programs and variable patrons to engage.

Shanghai Hongqiao Performing Arts Center / BAU Brearley Architects + Urbanists - Exterior Photography, Facade
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Articulating the programs as separate objects and linking them via an enclosed plaza creates an in-between-space in which the differences between the programs are enhanced, the potential for cross-patronage is maximised, and cross-fertilisation between the performing arts is encouraged.

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an assemblage of difference
The theatre is developed as a stone monolith (a traditional material for a traditional program) with rounded articulation and a theatrical staircase. The cinemas are an ensemble of stacked metal boxes (a 20th Century material for a 20th Century program), the largest of which is suspended above the street corner.

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Shanghai Hongqiao Performing Arts Center / BAU Brearley Architects + Urbanists - Interior Photography, Stairs
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The enclosed plaza or mixing-lobby has ticket offices, café, flexible exhibition and event space, and open views to the external plaza and streetscape, also designed by BAU.

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Project location

Address:No.888 Tianshan Road, Changning District, Shanghai, China

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Cite: "Shanghai Hongqiao Performing Arts Center / BAU Brearley Architects + Urbanists" 25 Jun 2019. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/919652/shanghai-hongqiao-performing-arts-center-bau> ISSN 0719-8884

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