SHANGHAI HUANGPU RIVER BANKS REDEVELOPMENT
Due to Shanghai's incredible construction boom, old days suburbial industries are now trapped among the quickly expending city dowtown. The Huangpu river redevelopment plan intends to relocate these shipyards, factories and warehouses in order to give back access to the river banks. In a few years, parks and walkways will stands there giving new angles to enjoy Shanghai's skyline. Everything should be completed before te 2010 World Expo.
These two recents aerial views only show the most central yards, from north to south :
- The ship yard that stood next to the Lujiazui CBD has been demolished. The land that has been cleared is huge.
- The North Bund redevelopment in the Hongkou district.
- The south part of the Bund (close to the "old" city and the YuYuan garden)
- A (still active) coal dump right in front of the Shimao Riviera Garden residentials (a luxury residential area).
April 2005
June 2005
The Lujiazui shipyard
May 2004, from the Oriental Pearl
May 2005, from the Oriental Pearl
June 2005, from the JinMao
July 2005, from the Oriental Pearl
Different plans and renderings for the zone that were posted on the chinese cameraunion forum. I hope the buildings planned there will be high enough to add some more density behind the actual towers circling of the Central Green garden. By now, from some angles, it's too much of a toothless mouth.
North Bund
November 2004, from the Oriental Pearl
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November 2004, from the Oriental Pearl
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November 2004, from the Oriental Pearl
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June 29th 2005, from the Oriental Pearl
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Demolitions pix :
Old Hongkou ghost :
November 2004, a bad pic (wrong hour for the angle) I took from the north end of the Yard. An agressive guard never let me climb the wall to take a better pic but it helps imaginating how great the view on both Puxi and Pudong skylines will be from the park walkway. It's not a bad idea to build the cruise ship terminal there, tourists will be very impressed.
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Same area in april 2005
All the models and renderings we already saw for this project were just master plans from the different competitors, not the actual projects from the winners. I'm still collecting information about the North Bund redevelopment and I'll post it later.
South Bund
These two recent views from the JinMao show the whole area in two parts. The former warehouses has been demolished, no construction activities yet.
I don't know exactly what has been planned fot the bank itself there. An extension of the Bund walkway ? A garden ? What is already obvious is that all buildings are been recladded in order to make them look older, probably with the idea of creating a sort of continuity with the historical Bund. This habit of messing with history really makes me ill at ease, kind of Orwell's "1984" nightmare came true.
All the following pix were collected from the cameraunion forum (moyan808, I think, thanks to him)
A model :
The already recladded buildings :
The latest buildings been redesigned (the residential midrise on the left was very ugly)
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