New Gallery of Pompidou Center in West Bund Art Museum by David Chipperfield Architects
06/08/2017.
[Shanghai] China
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The modern art gallery, which also plans to open branches in South Korea and Belgium, has been in talks for more than a decade with China. Now, David Chipperfield Architects has revealed the design of the newest home of the Centre Pompidou, the West Bund Art Museum in Shanghai.
Exterior rendering. New Gallery of Pompidou Center in West Bund Art Museum by David Chipperfield Architects.
Interior rendering. New Gallery of Pompidou Center in West Bund Art Museum by David Chipperfield Architects.
Interior rendering. New Gallery of Pompidou Center in West Bund Art Museum by David Chipperfield Architects.
Interior rendering. New Gallery of Pompidou Center in West Bund Art Museum by David Chipperfield Architects.
Exterior rendering. New Gallery of Pompidou Center in West Bund Art Museum by David Chipperfield Architects.
Detail façade rendering. New Gallery of Pompidou Center in West Bund Art Museum by David Chipperfield Architects.
Night exterior rendering. New Gallery of Pompidou Center in West Bund Art Museum by David Chipperfield Architects.
Model. New Gallery of Pompidou Center in West Bund Art Museum by David Chipperfield Architects.
Model. New Gallery of Pompidou Center in West Bund Art Museum by David Chipperfield Architects.
Model. New Gallery of Pompidou Center in West Bund Art Museum by David Chipperfield Architects.
The site chosen is close to Tank Shanghai, an art centre being developed by the collector Qiao Zhibing in disused oil tanks.
Axonometric. New Gallery of Pompidou Center in West Bund Art Museum by David Chipperfield Architects.
Program. New Gallery of Pompidou Center in West Bund Art Museum by David Chipperfield Architects.
Site plan. New Gallery of Pompidou Center in West Bund Art Museum by David Chipperfield Architects.
New Gallery of Pompidou Center in West Bund Art Museum by David Chipperfield Architects.
Level floor plan -1. New Gallery of Pompidou Center in West Bund Art Museum by David Chipperfield Architects.
Level floor plan 0. New Gallery of Pompidou Center in West Bund Art Museum by David Chipperfield Architects.
Level floor plan +1. New Gallery of Pompidou Center in West Bund Art Museum by David Chipperfield Architects.
Cross and longitudinal sections. New Gallery of Pompidou Center in West Bund Art Museum by David Chipperfield Architects.
Lighting ways. Sections. New Gallery of Pompidou Center in West Bund Art Museum by David Chipperfield Architects.
East and West elevations. New Gallery of Pompidou Center in West Bund Art Museum by David Chipperfield Architects.
North and South elevationsNew Gallery of Pompidou Center in West Bund Art Museum by David Chipperfield Architects.
Xuhui Binjiang view from New Gallery of Pompidou Center in West Bund Art Museum by David Chipperfield Architects.
The Parisian institution revealed the details to stage exhibitions in the museum beginning in 2019, with the announcement of around 20 exhibitions over five years - including a focus on contemporary Chinese art – in a wing of the new West Bund Art Museum, which is being built – in the cultural district of China’s commercial capital, by British architect David Chipperfield.
This is acording the Centre Pompidou as "the most important long-term cultural exchange project” between France and China.
This is acording the Centre Pompidou as "the most important long-term cultural exchange project” between France and China.
Descripción del proyecto por David Chipperfield Architects
The new West Bund Art Museum is a prominent building of the masterplan for the West Bund of Shanghai. The aim of the design is to create a special place at the riverside where visitors can visit a museum and also enjoy the riverside and the views to downtown Shanghai. Due to its situation as a solitaire at the north most point where the road and the river diverge to form a generous green park, the museum will be the prime cultural entity that visitors encounter when coming to the Xuhui Riverside District via the Shanghai Corniche. The building will have a strong relationship to its surroundings.
Three exhibition gallery volumes approximately 18m tall define the building massing on the North, West and South sides of the site. The exhibition galleries are stacked and the heights are configured to provide clerestory lighting to the lower level galleries, while the upper level galleries are mainly top lit. In addition, each upper level gallery contains an expansive view window providing views to downtown Shanghai, the local Huangpu river bank, and the park to the south.
The museum is positioned on the outer edges of the site on these three sides to create a unique space at the riverside. This central area of the building contains 3 main space defining elements; a three storey lobby with a central triple-height atrium, a single storey long café pavilion located along the river’s edge with a rooftop viewing terrace connecting the upper lobby with the riverside, and a landscaped sunken courtyard connecting the underground museum level with the riverside terrace and promenade.
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Architect
David Chipperfield Architects Berlin, Shanghai
Partners
Alexander Schwarz, Mark Randel, Martin Reichert, Libin Chen
Project Architects
Diana Schaffrannek, Chuxiao Li, Haishan Li
Collaborators
Contact architect.- Shanghai Urban Architectural Design Co., Ltd.
Landscape architect.- Levin Monsigny Gesellschaft von Landschaftsarchitekten
Structure consultant.- Arup
Structure engineer.- Shanghai Urban Architectural Design Co., Ltd.
Facade consultant.- Drees & Sommer Engineering Consulating (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
Services consultant.- WSP Parsons Brinckerhoff Engineering Services
Services engineer.- Shanghai Urban Architectural Design Co., Ltd.
Client
Shanghai West Bund Development Group Co., Ltd.
Dates
Project start.- 2013
Completion due.- 2019
Area
Gross floor area.- 24000 m²
David Chipperfield
David Chipperfield was born in London in 1953 and studied architecture at the Kingston School of Art and the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London before working at the practices of Douglas Stephen, Richard Rogers and Norman Foster.
In 1985 he founded David Chipperfield Architects, which today has over 300 staff at its offices in London, Berlin, Milan and Shanghai.
David Chipperfield has taught and held conferences in Europe and the United States and has received honorary degrees from the universities of Kingston and Kent.
He is a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and an honorary fellow of both the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the Bund Deutscher Architekten (BDA). In 2009 he was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and in 2010 he received a knighthood for services to architecture in the UK and Germany. In 2011 he received the RIBA Royal Gold Medal for Architecture and in 2013 the Praemium Imperiale from the Japan Art Association, while in 2021 he was appointed a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour in recognition of a lifetime’s work.
In 2012 he curated the 13th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale.
