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The Shanghai Museum is a municipal public museum of ancient Chinese art, situated on the People's Square in the Huangpu District of Shanghai, China. It is funded by the Shanghai Municipal Culture and Tourism Bureau .
Shanghai Clearing House: 2 Beijing East Road: 1922: 24: A-III-049: Union Building: Bank of Shanghai Puxi Branch: 261 Sichuan Middle Road: 1926: 25: A-III-047: Brunner Mond Building: Shanghai Warehousing Industry Association/Shanghai Commercial Warehousing Co., Ltd. 133 Sichuan Middle Road: 1922: 26: A-III-048: New HSBC Building: Shanghai ...
Schmidt Hammer Lassen (SHL) is an international architectural firm founded by a group of Danish architects in 1986 in Aarhus, Denmark. It has offices in Copenhagen and Aarhus in Denmark, and Shanghai, China. In 2018, SHL became part of global architecture and design firm Perkins and Will.
The building was designed by architect Ling Benli of the East China Architecture Design & Research Institute (ECADI), as a harmonious balance to the Grand Theatre, another contemporary building at the other end of People's Square. The Exhibition Center is 43 metres (141 ft) high, has a white aluminium panel cladding and a symbolic membrane ...
Charles Henry Gonda (22 June 1889 – 1 April 1969), professionally known as C. H. Gonda, was a Hungarian architect famous for his ultra-modern style of building.He was active in Shanghai throughout the 1920s–1940s and began working on his first project, the Messrs, Lane, Crawford & Co's New Frontage building, in 1922 after leaving his previous firm Probst, Hanbury & Co..
The Shanghai Race Club building, where the Shanghai Art Museum was previously housed in, which remained open until 31 December 2012, receiving more than 12,000 visitors in its last two days. [9] The new building of the art museum, which is the China Pavilion from Expo 2010, spans 64,000 sq. meters and is more than ten times larger than the art ...
Converting the building cost $64 million which was paid for by the Shanghai government. [6] [1] The museum is on the site of the Expo 2010 and on the left bank of the Huangpu River. It opened in 2012 with an exhibition of contemporary art from Centre Pompidou, Paris's best-known contemporary art museum, entitled Electric Fields, Surrealism and ...
Shanghai's first building boom occurred in the 1920s and 1930s, during the city's heyday as a multinational center of business and finance. [5] The city's international concessions permitted foreign investment, and with it came architectural styles from the West , as seen today in areas such as the French Concession and the Bund . [ 6 ]