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Architects: OPEN Architecture
- Area: 5372 m²
- Year: 2020
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Photographs:Jonathan Leijonhufvud, Qingshan Wu, Hao Chen
Text description provided by the architects. Pinghe Bibliotheater is the core of OPEN’s latest project—School as Village/Shanghai Qingpu Pinghe International School. A library, a theater, and a black box interlock together like a Chinese puzzle to form this characteristic building that some call ‘the blue whale’ while others see it as an ocean liner. The unique form of the building and the free-flowing spaces not only cultivate the students’ interests in reading and performing, but also encourage their imagination to roam freely in the ocean of knowledge.
