Pinghe Bibliotheater / OPEN Architecture
Pinghe Bibliotheater is the core of OPEN’s latest project—School as Village/Shanghai Qingpu Pinghe International School. A library, a theater, and a black box interlock together like a Chinese puzzle to form this characteristic building that some call ‘the blue whale’ while others see it as an ocean liner. The unique form of the building and the free-flowing spaces not only cultivate the students’ interests in reading and performing, but also encourage their imagination to roam freely in the ocean of knowledge.
© Jonathan Leijonhufvud
- architects: OPEN Architecture
- Location: Shanghai, China
- Project Year: 2020
- Photographs: Jonathan Leijonhufvud
- Photographs: Qingshan Wu
- Photographs: Hao Chen
- Photographs: Courtesy of OPEN Architecture
- Area: 5372.0 m2
