RUNNER UP CONCRETE UMBRELLA

摘要

The Long Museum, the newest art gallery in Shanghai, speaks to an honest engineering aesthetic. Concrete shell, steel grillage, towering proportions, machine repetition, ribbed vaulting, geometric composition, factory functionalism: Behrens-esque. It straddles a pre-existing, '50s, heavy industrial, coal conveyor loading bridge, so it is tempting to describe the museum in Warholian terms as a production house of art. In fact, the motif is much simpler and much more rooted in the historic urban grain of the site. It is emblematic of the history of the city.