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Opening before Chinese New Year 2021, Wutopia Lab was commissioned by Shentong Group to design the Shanghai Metro Line 15 Wuzhong Road Station. The station is conceived as more than a functional addition to the city’s infrastructure, as it has been envisioned as a social and symbolic reflection of Shanghai itself.   CreatAR Images The ground conditions of Shanghai make the city unsuitable for below-ground metro construction. Nevertheless, it is the city with the longest-running mileage of subway in the world, continuously running far into the outer lying areas of Shanghai. Given the ground-level nature of the station, the architects developed the concept of the station as Shanghai’s Huangpu River, flanked by scenes of... More