TANK Shanghai
Decommissioned jet-fuel tanks turned into riverside contemporary art galleries.
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This guide to TANK Shanghai follows nightclub-mogul-turned-collector Qiao Zhibing's decision to convert five disused jet-fuel tanks on the Huangpu into a contemporary art museum. It traces the years-long effort to cut skylights and walkways into the tanks after Shanghai's West Bund district invited collectors to remake its industrial riverside starting in 2013. Step inside the largest tank, twenty five metres across, and imagine it still holding aviation fuel.
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