West Bund Museum
Riverside art museum in three concrete volumes, on loan works from a landmark Paris collection.
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This guide to West Bund Museum in Shanghai follows architect David Chipperfield's brief for a Huangpu riverfront building with no fixed purpose, three concrete volumes meant to hold anything at all. It traces how France's Centre Pompidou later became the surprise tenant, forcing Chipperfield to carve a new atrium into an already finished design, and the museum's 2019 opening with the French president in attendance. Look up at the lobby's single tapering column as you walk in.
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