After a lengthy period in which seemingly the only new projects one ever heard about in China were those by international 'starchitects', the situation in recent years is greatly transformed. A very different type of building now features far higher on the radar, designed by innovative Chinese practices, and perhaps exemplified by Atelier Deshaus's Long Museum in the far West Bund of Shanghai, which opened in 2014. It is a brilliantly inventive piece of design, not least in retaining a landscape of old coal hoppers and loading cranes to offset its smooth, white intersecting vaulted ceilings.
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