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Chipperfield’s Shanghai art gallery opens

By 2019-11-11T07:00:00

David Chipperfield's West Bund Museum in Shanghai (1)

Source: Simon Menges

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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