{"id":35842639,"date":"2019-07-11T08:31:29","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T06:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.arketipomagazine.it\/en\/?p=35842639"},"modified":"2019-07-10T17:32:23","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T15:32:23","slug":"shanghai-hongqiao-performing-arts-center-shanghai-bau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arketipomagazine.it\/en\/shanghai-hongqiao-performing-arts-center-shanghai-bau\/","title":{"rendered":"Shanghai Hongqiao Performing Arts Center, Shanghai – BAU"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shanghai Hongqiao Performing Arts Center<\/strong> is located in Tinshan Road, the new commercial boulevard in Hongqiao, one of Shanghai\u2019s central activity districts. It replaces and expands on the existing state-run cinema centre on the site. The site is surrounded by brightly lit shopping malls built this century. BAU<\/strong> decided early that to be civic and enduring in this overly excited commercial environment, doing less not more would be an effective strategy. The project was the subject of three rounds of invited competition over 5 years before BAU was finally awarded the contract to design the project.
\nThis project includes both traditional and modern programs of mass entertainment: theatre (1000 seats) and cinema (seven of various capacities). Usually seen as separate programs and increasingly supported by distinctly different user groups, this project presents the opportunity for the two different programs and variable patrons to engage. To clearly articulate the programs as separate objects, the design strategy was to link them via one single enclosed plaza to create an in-between-space in which the differences between the programs are enhanced, the potential for cross-patronage maximised, and cross-fertilization between the performing arts encouraged.<\/p>

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