2024 Best of Year Winner for Entertainment
Set amid skyscrapers in an emerging riverside business district, the New Bund 31 Performing Arts Center, a 189,000-square-foot cultural facility, offers a contemporary take on a classical archetype: the arena. Arched forms proliferate throughout the interior crafted by Neri&Hu Design and Research Office, creating a particularly dramatic effect when stacked to the full height of the five-story atrium lobby. That’s a prelude to the 2,500-seat grand theater in Shanghai, a soaring volume of curving shapes and horseshoe balconies entirely clad in oak, which introduces a warm tonality, both visually and acoustically. Additional striking material choices include paneling the multipurpose performance and exhibition space with blackened stainless steel, turning it into a literal “black box,” and the glass-block construction in the adjacent escalator area, which yields a contrasting “light box” that arriving patrons experience as a crystalline tunnel.
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2024 WINNERS
PROJECT TEAM: LYNDON NERI; ROSSANA HU; ZIYI CAO; FONG WIN HUANG; ALEXANDER GOH; ATH SUPORNCHAI; BECKY ZHANG; CHERI LEE; CHAOFU YEH; CHRISTINE CHANG; DANYAN JIN; DAVIS BUTNER; ELIS HUANG; ELAN TAO; GUANLIN LEE; GREG WU; JINGYI BI; JINLONG LI; KANY LIU; KATE HWANG; KATHY HU; LUNA HONG; NICOLAS FARDET; SELA LIM; SHIQI ZHANG; SIYU CHEN, VANESSA WU; ZHIKANG WANG.