BOCOM NEW BUND 31 PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

With A Grand Theater and A Black Box Space, the BOCOM NEW BUND 31 Performing Arts Center is an architectural landmark in the Qiantan area and cultural destination for the community. Neri&hu’s interior design concept for the project is “the arena,” a contemporary interpretation of the classical archetype. The grand theater, its lobby concourse, and the circulation paths encircling it, are all defined by a series of arches. From any given position in the five-story atrium space, your eye is drawn up and down, across the spaces; visitors take on a duality of roles –both observer and performer –such that the atrium itself becomes another stage.