New Bund 31 Performing Arts Center / Chinese Mainland
Neri&Hu Design and Research Office / Chinese Mainland
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DFA Design for Asia Awards 2025 l Bronze Award l Spatial Design l Culture & Public Spaces
The Modern Arena
Amid Shanghai’s soaring skyline, this performing arts centre reinterprets the classical arena through rhythm and restraint. Layered arches rise through a five-storey atrium, turning circulation into performance. Warm oak envelops the 2,500-seat theatre, uniting acoustic precision with sculptural intimacy to create a museum-like space defined by tactile materiality and archetypal form.
