Chipperfield’s Shanghai art gallery opens
By Elizabeth Hopkirk2019-11-11T07:00:00
Museum was six years in the planning
David Chipperfield’s West Bund Museum on the Shanghai waterfront has opened.
The new art gallery is a key part of the West Bund Masterplan, which envisages a new cultural district over nine square kilometres of former industrial land.
The 22,000sq m museum occupies a triangular plot at the northernmost tip of a new public park, at the point where Longteng Avenue and the Huangpu River converge.
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