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post updated 25 August 2024

This page features the most important new Shanghai Architecture. The focus is on contemporary Shanghai buildings.

Shanghai Building News

We have 3 pages of Shanghai Architecture selections:

Architecture in Shanghai

Shanghai Building : news + key projects (this page)

Shanghai Building Designs : A-J

Shanghai Building Developments : K-Z

Shanghai Architecture Tours
Expo Shanghai 2010
photo : Thomas Ott, Mühltal
Shanghai Architecture Walking Tours by e-architect

Shanghai Architecture News

Shanghai Architecture News, chronological:

17 Aug 2016
Cloud Pavilion at West Bund Biennial
Design: schmidt hammer lassen architects
Cloud Pavilion
photograph : Peter Dixie
Cloud Pavilion Shanghai
In 2013, SHL were commissioned by West Bund to create a series of pavilions as part of the West Bund Biennale of Art & Architecture, curated by renowned Chinese architect Zhang Yonghe, and architecture Professor and curator Li Xiangning.

4 Sep 2013
Shanghai ZhangDaQian Gallery – building news
Design: Sutherland Hussey Architects with GROSSMAX
Shanghai ZhangDaQian Gallery
image from architects
Shanghai ZhangDaQian Gallery
The program, apart from the gallery itself, includes a 200 seat lecture hall, meeting rooms, book shop and cafe, restoration facilities, storage and archiving space all organised into small pitched roof cellular forms wrapping around courtyards of varying size containing neatly manicured gardens, carp ponds and bamboo forests.

15 Aug 2013
Shanghai Skyscrapers – architectural render
Shanghai Skyscrapers
image : HO-CG
We liked this view of the city so e-architect asked if we could share it with our readers. The specialty of Shanghai Homely Culture Transmit Co, Ltd (SHCT) is in interior & exterior architectural and landscaping rendering and animation services. They have been in business for about 10 years in Shanghai, China. There are more than 130 architectural renderers in their team: www.ho-cg.com

7 Aug 2013
Roca Gallery Shanghai
Design: Francesc Rifé Studio
Roca Shanghai Gallery
image from architects
Roca Gallery Shanghai
Roca, international market leader in the defining of bathroom design is to inaugurate a Roca Gallery in the cosmopolitan city of Shanghai. The Roca Shanghai Gallery, the first of its kind in Asia, is a faithful reflection of the brand’s bid to bring together its philosophy and product line to the public as a whole. This new Gallery was designed by the Francesc Rifé Studio.

31 May 2013
Green Valley Shanghai
Design: schmidt hammer lassen architects with East China Architecture and Design Institute
Green Valley Project Shanghai
image from architect
Green Valley Shanghai
The Shanghai World Expo in 2010 placed emphasis on the future sustainable development of the formal industrial dockyard area of the city. The Expo event itself transformed this area into a new destination for the city.

25 Apr 2013
Hongqiao Airport Central Business District
Design: MVRDV
Hongqiao Airport Central Business District
image from architect
Hongqiao Airport Central Business District
Sincere Property, MVRDV and Aedas have started construction on a Central Business District at Shanghai’s mostly domestic airport Hongqiao. The 4.5ha site is located near Hongqiao Airport train station at the corner of Shenhai Express Way and Shenbin Road.

Shanghai Building Photos
Shanghai Building Photos – new pictures of key buildings around the city

Shanghai World Financial Center
Date built: 2008
Architects: Kohn Pederson Fox Associates – KPF
Shanghai World Financial Center
photo © Dennis Remmelzwaal
492 m – 1614 ft high ; 101 storeys skyscraper building
Shanghai World Financial Center building – new photographs
This tower was tallest building in the world briefly in 2008 (ie tallest design ignoring spires)

Jin Mao Tower, Lujiazui, Pudong
Date built: 1998
Architects: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill – SOM
Jin Mao Tower Shanghai
photo © Dennis Remmelzwaal
Jin Mao Shanghai building : tallest building in China since 2005 – new pictures
420m high, 88 storey skyscraper building
Incorporating offices + Grand Hyatt Hotel with thirty storey high atrium

Oriental Pearl Tower, Lujiazui, Pudong
Date built: 1995
Architects: Shanghai Modern Architectural Design Co. Ltd
Oriental Pearl Tower Shanghai
photo © Dennis Remmelzwaal
Oriental Pearl Tower : the tallest tower in Asia – 468m high TV Tower – new photos

Shanghai Building – Recent Designs

22 Jan 2013
Bamboo Courtyard Teahouse, Yangzhou, north of Shanghai
Design: Harmony World Consulting & Design (HWCD)
Tea House in Yangzhou
photograph : T+E
Bamboo Courtyard Teahouse
Located in the ShiQiao garden in Yangzhou, a city to the northwest of Shanghai, this is the floating Bamboo Courtyard Teahouse designed by Chinese architect Sun Wei, partner of HWCD. As an international design practice, with offices in London and Barcelona, HWCD has been developing various projects, specializes in boutique hotels, residents and mix-use projects.

28 Sep 2012
Hongqiao Vantone SunnyWorld Centre
Design: Foster + Partners
Hongqiao Vantone SunnyWorld Centre
picture : Foster + Partners
Hongqiao Vantone SunnyWorld Centre
This masterplan at the heart of the Shanghai Hongqiao CBD, has started on site. The project is part of an urban plan extending out from Shanghai’s main station. It is focused on a four-hectare public park and includes office buildings, shops and restaurants.

Shanghai Office Buildings

Contemporary Shanghai Architecture

Shanghai Expo Buildings 2010 Buildings + Architects – Information, Images – Pavilion Designs

British Pavilion : Expo 2010 Pavilion Design
Design: Heatherwick Studios
British Pavilion Shanghai
picture from Heatherwick Studio
Shanghai Expo Building

China Diamond Exchange Center building
Design: Goettsch Partners architects
China Diamond Exchange Center
picture from architect
China Diamond Exchange Center building

Danish Pavilion, Expo 2010
Design: BIG architects
Shanghai Expo 2010 Pavilion
picture from architect
Shanghai Expo 2010 Pavilion

Expo 2010 Megastructure
Knippers Helbig Advanced Engineering
Expo Shanghai 2010
photo : Thomas Ott, Mühltal
Expo Shanghai 2010 Megastructure

Hongqiao Soho

Zaha Hadid Architects
Hongqiao Soho
image from architects
Hongqiao Soho Shanghai

Oriental Art Center Building
Paul Andreu Architects
Oriental Art Center Shanghai
photo from Paul Andreu Architects
Shanghai Art Center Building

RÉN building, Expo 2010
BIG architects
Shanghai Expo 2010 Building
image from architect
Shanghai Expo 2010 Building

Shanghai Design Centre
Studio Twist, architects
Shanghai Design Centre
photo from architects
Shanghai Design Centre Building

Shanghai Expo UK Pavilion building
Heatherwick Studio
Shanghai Expo British Pavilion
photo © Daniele Mattioli
Shanghai Expo UK Pavilion building

Shanghai Oriental Sports Center
gmp von Gerkan, Marg and Partners
Shanghai Oriental Sports Center
photograph from architect
Shanghai Oriental Sports Center

Shanghai Tower : Super-Tall Building

Marshall Strabala architect
Shanghai Tower
image from architect
Shanghai Tower

Spanish Pavilion – Expo 2010 Pavilion
Miralles Tagliabue EMBT, architects
Shanghai Expo 2010
image from architects
Shanghai Expo 2010 Design

Shanghai Architecture : Contemporary Buildings + photos

Location: Shanghai, China

New Buildings in Shanghai

Contemporary Shanghai Architecture

Shanghai Architecture Designs – chronological list

Shanghai Architecture Walking Tours by e-architect

Shanghai Building News

Shanghai Architect

Shanghai New Towns Book

Chinese Architecture Designs

Chinese Architectural Designs – selection:

Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank – design by Foster + Partners

Hong Kong Building

Chinese Buildings

Buildings / photos for the Shanghai Architecture page welcome.