Revealed - the shape-shifting facade of Heatherwick and Foster's Shanghai theatre
![](https://www.leisureopportunities.co.uk/images/19893_592776.jpg)
Berlin-based architecture photographer Laurian Ghinitoiu has captured the first images of an elegant new Shanghai theatre designed by the studios of Thomas Heatherwick and Norman Foster with a kinetic moving facade.
The flexible arts and cultural venue is the focal point of the Bund Finance Centre; a new 420,000sq m (4.5 million sq ft) mixed-use destination Foster+Partners and Heatherwick Studio have designed for the city.
According to the design team, the cultural centre is inspired by the open stages of traditional Chinese theatres. The new images demonstrate how the building’s bronze-finned moving veil adapts to the changing use within – revealing, when required, a stage on the balcony and windows looking out towards the district of Pudong.
A timelapse video, also released by Ghinitoiu, shows the dramatic effect achieved by this moving curtain, which is formed by overlapping layers of bronze tubes.
The Bund Financial Centre is being created at the end of Shanghai’s famous waterfront street The Bund.
Heatherwick and Foster have designed two 180m (590ft) landmark towers to mark the south of the site. Other buildings – including offices, restaurants, shops and a boutique hotel – will be staggered in height and relate in scale and rhythm to the grand area’s nineteenth-century landmarks.
![](https://www.leisureopportunities.co.uk/images/19896_568714.jpg)
![](https://www.leisureopportunities.co.uk/images/19897_333873.jpg)
![](https://www.leisureopportunities.co.uk/images/19895_207086.jpg)
![](https://www.leisureopportunities.co.uk/images/19894_939825.jpg)
![](https://www.leisureopportunities.co.uk/images/19898_318274.jpg)
![](https://www.leisureopportunities.co.uk/images/19899_342476.jpg)
![](https://www.leisureopportunities.co.uk/images/19900_749350.jpg)
![](https://www.sportsmanagement.co.uk/images/SMlogoSmall.jpg)
Recreation Assistant (Dry Site)
Party Leader
Recreation Assistant/Lifeguard (NPLQ required)
Fitness Consultant Grade 3
Commercial Manager
Receptionist
General Manager
General Manager
Swim Teacher
Customer Service Advisor
Team Leader
Swim Teacher
Swimming Teacher
Swimming Teacher
Company profile
![Company profile: PSLT Ltd Company profile: PSLT Ltd](https://www.leisureopportunities.co.uk/images/dir/158001_590616.png)
Featured Supplier
![Developing tomorrow’s champions: BLK BOX and Cardiff Met’s Archers Performance Centre Developing tomorrow’s champions: BLK BOX and Cardiff Met’s Archers Performance Centre](http://www.leisureopportunities.co.uk/images/2024/THUMB353688_659798_756339.jpg)
Property & Tenders
Company: Jersey War Tunnels
Company: Savills
Company: Cotswold Lakes Trust
Company: Knight Frank
Company: Belvoir Castle