Bright City Kitchen
China
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MOSTA Plaza
- Client
- Bright Food Group, Shanghai Real Estate Co.
- Services
- Architecture, Interior Design
- Sector
- Retail
- Location
- Shanghai, China
A heritage building redeveloped as a food plaza
MOSTA Plaza occupies a nearly century-old heritage building within the Jing’an District’s Shanghai Historical Conservation Area, with Zhang’s Garden, the largest surviving Shikumen complex in Shanghai, a few steps away.
Dates2010
Size
12,300m²
A spiral atrium with floating volumes
The architecture is organised around a spiral-shaped central atrium that runs from the second basement up through the fifth floor. Inserted into the atrium are a series of “floating” volumes conceived as particles of light moving through the void, a reference to the client’s name, Bright Food. Planting wraps each volume, and the spiral plan offers different sightlines through the atrium from every floor.
Food, retail and hotel programme
The new building will combine food retail, food-themed retail and a wider F&B programme across its five above-ground floors, with three basement levels operating as a retail podium connected underground to the existing Jing’an Ruitai Hotel. MOSTA Plaza is part of the wider conservation district around West Nanjing Road and Zhang’s Garden.
