David Chipperfield completes iridescent West Bund Museum containing Centre Pompidou outpost
A public esplanade envelops David Chipperfield's West Bund Museum in Shanghai, which contains the Centre Pompidou's first Chinese outpost.
The art museum was designed David Chipperfield Architects as a key part of Shanghai's West Bund masterplan that is transforming a former industrial site on the Huangpu River into a 940 hectare cultural district.
It takes the form of three volumes arranged like a pinwheel and contains the Centre Pompidou x West Bund Museum Project "as part of a cultural collaboration between France and China". The collaboration will see items from the French museum displayed in the Chinese gallery for the next five years.
The West Bund Museum, which open to the public this month, is wrapped by a public boulevard with steps on one side that cascade down to the river. This boulevard is designed to provide improved access to both the river and a new riverside park to ensure the museum becomes an accessible public space for anyone to use.
"The design of the West Bund Museum responds to the openness of the site as well as the surrounding development of a new cultural corridor along West Bund," explained Chipperfield.
"The wilful act of twisting the three main exhibition halls breaks the conventional geometry and creates powerful interstitial public spaces. A wide esplanade opens onto the waterside promenade, offering an outdoor space for use by everyone."
First revealed in 2013, David Chipperfield Architects' design comprises ...
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