Canopied museum entrance with old coal loading bridge structure. Long Museum West Bund, Shanghai, China. Architect: Atelier Desh
The shanghai-based Long Museum has opened its second facility, located on the banks of the Huangpu river in the city’s west bund culture corridor. Designed by architecture office atelier deshaus, the building is characterized by a series of umbrella-like vaulted forms and monolithic concrete materiality. The ‘long museum west bund’ has been designed around an existing 1950s coal-hopper unloading bridge, which extends 110 meters in length, 10 meters in width, and 8 meters tall. in addition, the project builds upon and repurposes a two-years old underground parking garage on the site, and responds directly to its structural layout; thus the result is a four-story building, in which there are two floors above and below grade.
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