Innovative developers in Shanghai are giving old buildings new purpose.
This year rings in the Chinese year of the bull—a good marketing hook for an old Shanghai slaughterhouse turned art hub. Constructed in its namesake year, 1933 was built from Portsmouth concrete imported from the U.K. and decorated with an art deco façade and Moorish dome. Along with many other state-run factories and warehouses, the building fell into disuse as the government pushed industry to the city’s outskirts in the decades following China’s economic reform and opening up.
