Architecture
BM Plaza Phase III
Towers rising from a base that fuses Shanghai's historic fabric with a contemporary mixed-use programme.
- Location
- Shanghai, China
- Project type
- Architecture
- Scale
- Mixed-use · adaptive reuse
- Role
- Senior Designer · Gensler
- Year
- 2014
The brief
BM Plaza reinterprets Shanghai's historic buildings as 'layers of eras' juxtaposed over a complex contemporary mixed-use programme of retail, food and beverage and cinema.
The design
The master plan treats the heritage structures as delicate remnants of history, book-ending new spaces between them; a consistent vocabulary of stone, glass and brick blends old and new.
Details
Above the historic base, the towers rise purely as today's Shanghai — a modern urbanscape rooted in a strong historic background, unified by a faceted roof trellis inspired by Chinese modular origami.
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