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Lane 189 Mall in Shanghai
Retail Building Interior, China ? design by Ben van Berkel/UNStudio
23 Jun 2017
Lane 189 Mall
Architects: Ben van Berkel/UNStudio
Location: Shanghai, China
Lane 189 Mall – A new destination in Shanghai for shopping, strolling, eating, gathering and relaxing

photo © Eric Jap
Lane 189, located in the Putuo district in central Shanghai – opposite Chang Shou Park and close to the Jade Buddha Temple – is designed to provide a lifestyle destination for Shanghai?s young professionals. Lane189 combines retail, restaurant and office spaces in an organisation that rearranges the typical mall into a vertical city centre and provides opportunities for shopping, strolling, eating, gathering and relaxing.
photo © Hufton+Crow
The design incorporates elements of ?old Shanghai? through geometry, pattern and materialisation and combines these with a contemporary urban experience, thereby creating a destination with a distinctly Shanghai feel.

Concept – programmed void plateaus
The existing qualities of the immediate urban surroundings, which include small-scale restaurants and boutique stores, are reflected in the building where they are stacked vertically to populate the envelope with programmatic destinations that can be seen from street level.
Inside, elements of street life are mixed with lifestyle retail features and are distributed throughout th...