Situated amidst a sea of skyscrapers in the Pudong District of Shanghai, the Artyzen NEW BUND 31 Shanghai is a key destination within the flagship property of the Qiantan development which includes an office tower, shopping center and a performing arts center. The hotel is adjacent to the performing arts center, also designed by Neri&Hu, and this direct connection creates a unique typology and junction point in the city where the individual and collective spheres meet. While the performing arts center serves as the cultural heart of the district, the hotel is envisioned as an urban oasis that takes its guests on a journey of surprise and discovery.
The hotel arrival experience starts from the ground level where guests will be greeted in the lobby. The lounge on level 3 serves as the waiting and arrival space connected to the performing arts center. From there, guests can travel to level 5 to check-in at the reception which connects to various public amenities and to the 202 guest rooms housed in the tower above the podium.
Conceptually, the hotel is conceived of as having been carved from a single monolithic mass. On the ground floor guests are greeted by a subtly textured concrete façade, with a scalloped pattern that finds resonance in the feature arches of the performing arts center. In the ground floor lobby, a large opening punched through to the south facade near the ceiling allows natural light to flood the seemingly enclosed space.
From the intimately scaled lobby guests are taken directly to the fifth-floor podium roof level which accommodates all the main public spaces of the hotel—reception, restaurants, lounges, tapas bar, event spaces, and outdoor gardens. These various programs are all woven together with a continuous stone landscape from which these spaces are carved. A series of floating pavilion-like structures demarcate each venue, and guests are invited to leisurely meander throughout. With an abundance of outdoor landscape spaces, Artyzen NEW BUND 31 Shanghai offers a rare experience in an urban hotel, a sense of respite and escape from the bustling city of Shanghai.
The concept of nature as respite is also applied to the guestrooms in the tower. Taking inspiration from the palette of traditional Chinese gardens, each room’s central area is lined in a white plaster layer that wraps over the carved grey stone mass of the entry and bathroom. A wooden platform and headboard for the bed bring a sense of warmth to the austere palette, while bronze metal details add a subtle touch of luxury. Custom furniture pieces by Neri&Hu inject a sense of domesticity and casual comfort to the guest rooms.
Team:
Partners-in-charge: Lyndon Neri, Rossana Hu
Associate-in-charge: Akrawit Yanpaisan, Scott Hsu
Design team: Aleksandra Duka, Peng Guo, Danyan Jin, Andy Chen, Qiucheng Li, Elan Tao Tessie Wan, Paz Ma, Echo Li, Dania Angela Flores, Ambesh Suthar, Kathy Hu, Bella Lin, Greg Wu, Becky Zhang, Nicolas Fardet, Yin Sheng, Lili Cheng, Junho Jeon, Luna Hong, Lyuqitiao Wang, Haiou Xin, July Huang, Yuqi Zhong
Interior design, Product design, Graphic design: Neri&Hu Design and Research OfficeArchitect: Palmer & Turner Consultants
Curtain Wall Consultant: Shanghai Zhulian Construction Engineering Co., Ltd.
Structural Consultant: Arup Ltd.
MEP Consultant: China Team Engineering Consulting Co., Ltd. Shanghai Branch
Landscape Consultant: East China Architectural Design & Research Institute
Construction PM: AECOM Ltd.
Hotel Operator: Artyzen Hospitality Group Ltd.
LDI: h Architecture Planning & Engineering Ltd.
Acoustic Consultant: SMW (Shanghai) Business Consulting Co., Ltd
Art Consultant: Art Front Gallery (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
Interior LDI: Shanghai Modern Architectural Decoration Environmental Design Research Institute Co., Ltd.
Interior Lighting: Branston Partnership Inc.
Kitchen Consultant: CKP Kitchen Design Consultant Co., Ltd.
Signage Consultant: Shanghai Saichi Logo Design Engineering Co., Ltd.
QS: Arcadis
Contractor (GC): Shanghai Construction No.4(Group) Co., Ltd
Curtain Wall: Wuxi Hengshang Decoration Engineering Co., Ltd
Hotel Public Area Interior: Shanghai Construction Decoration (Group) Co., Ltd
Hotel Guest Room Interior: Shanghai Haihua Construction & Decoration Engineering Co., Ltd
Photographer: Pedro Pegenaute
Materials Used:
Decorative Lighting: Neri&Hu Custom
Interiors – Materials: Balmes stone, Vals stone, Monaco Greystone, locally sourced bricks, special paints, engineered wood, stainless steel, UHPC, GRC
Interiors – Furniture: Neri&Hu Custom, Stellar works, De la espada
Interiors – Accessories: Neri&Hu Custom
Interiors – Fabrics: Camira, locally sourced fabrics
FF&E Supplier: Michael Strads Design (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
Custom Lighting Supplier: Melodycity (Shanghai) Environment Solution Co., Ltd
