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Bund Finance Centre Overview

The three-sentence summary is: The Bund Finance Centre in Shanghai features a curtain-like bronze tube facade that hangs in three layers, creating semi-transparent screens in front of windows and balconies. Designed by Foster + Partners and Heatherwick Studio for a new mixed-use complex on the famous Bund street in Shanghai, the 190,000 square meter development includes a 420000 square meter cultural center inspired by traditional Chinese theaters. The cultural center is the centerpiece of the complex and combines exhibition halls, event spaces, and a performance venue within its three stories.

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Bund Finance Centre Overview

The three-sentence summary is: The Bund Finance Centre in Shanghai features a curtain-like bronze tube facade that hangs in three layers, creating semi-transparent screens in front of windows and balconies. Designed by Foster + Partners and Heatherwick Studio for a new mixed-use complex on the famous Bund street in Shanghai, the 190,000 square meter development includes a 420000 square meter cultural center inspired by traditional Chinese theaters. The cultural center is the centerpiece of the complex and combines exhibition halls, event spaces, and a performance venue within its three stories.

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BUND FINANCE CENTRE

SHANGAI

DONE BY
AISHWARYA LAKSHMI RAMASWAMY
ABOUT
ARCHITECTS: Foster + Partners,
Heatherwick Studio
AREA: 420000.0 m²
YEAR: 2017
PHOTOGRAPHS: Laurian Ghinitoiu
MANUFACTURERS: Axent

Inspired by traditional Chinese theatres, the three-storey building features a curtain-like


facade of bronze tubes. These tubes hang in three layers, creating semi-transparent
screens in front of windows and balconies.
CONCEPT
Inspired by traditional Chinese theatres, the three-storey
building features a curtain-like facade of bronze tubes.
These tubes hang in three layers, creating semi-
transparent screens in front of windows and balconies.

The Fosun Foundation is the centrepiece of the Bund Finance Center, a new mixed-use
complex designed by Norman Foster's architecture firm and Thomas Heatherwick's
design studio for the end of famous Shanghai street The Bund.
The 190,000-square-metre development is still under construction, but these new
images by photographer Laurian Ghinitoiu show that the new cultural centre is now
complete.
This is the first major collaboration between Foster + Partners and Heatherwick Studio,
which ranked at numbers 13 and 23 on the inaugural Dezeen HoT List respectively.
But both firms will by now be used to teaming up with other big-name architects and
designers. Heatherwick Studio is working with Danish firm BIG on the Google HQs
in California and London, while Foster + Partners has paired up with Mexican
architect Fernando Romero to design the new Mexico City airport.
Inspired by this urban context, two 180-metre landmark towers are placed in the south of the site,
while the buildings facing the waterfront are staggered in height and relate in scale and rhythm to
the grand nineteenth-century landmarks along the Bund. At the heart of the scheme is a flexible arts
and cultural centre, home to the Fosun Foundation, which combines exhibition and events halls
with a performance venue, inspired by the open stages of traditional Chinese theatres.

Gerard Evenden, Head of Studio and Senior Executive Partner, Foster + Partners
commented: “The Bund Finance Centre creates a pivotal connection between the old
town and the new financial district. Developing the massing strategy for the
buildings was an interesting challenge, in terms of relating to the context of old and
new architecture, reflecting the scale of the waterfront and the character of the
historic quarters.”
WITHOUT VEIL WITH VEIL

WEST ELEVATION
WITHOUT VIEL WITH VIEL

SOUTH ELEVATION
SECTION
CREDITS
archdaily

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