MVRDV Transforms Former Cement Factory on Shanghai’s West Bund

Asia’s biggest cement factory now a stylish leisure district - Global Construction Review

Once home to Asia’s biggest cement factory, an awkward waterfront industrial zone in Shanghai is now a stylish culture and leisure district that uses the site’s old, monolithic structures to its advantage. Just completed, the 45,000-sq-m “GATE M Dream Center” masterplanned by Dutch architect MVRDV makes features of the legacy structures while creating spaces for people to enjoy themselves amongst them beside the Huangpu River. It even uses unf…

MVRDV Transforms Former Cement Factory on Shanghai’s West Bund

MVRDV GATE M West Bund Dream Center. Image © Tian Fangfang MVRDV has completed the GATE M West Bund Dream Center, a major adaptive reuse project that transforms a former cement factory into a dynamic cultural and leisure district in Shanghai. Located along the city's Huangpu River, the development contributes to the growing series of West Bund cultural initiatives and offers a wide array of public amenities, from food and retail spaces to climbi…