Northwards view along the Chuanshang Bridge over the Chuanyang River, as it joins the Huangpu River on the left.NYU Shanghai Qiantan campus, three weeks before the first day of classes.“Mighty is geometry; joined with art, resistless.” — Euripides A westward view from a pedestrian bridge at Tai Koo Li Qiantan.A view from a second-story walkway. I thought this looked like an architectural render, and edited it (lower clarity and noise) to further bring this out.A grandfather carries his grandson's bike up the steps to the Chuanshang pedestrian bridge. The Chuanshang Footbridge bridge continues the trail from the Qiantan Youcheng Park northwards towards the Houtan Park. China has a mandatory retirement age of 60 for men and 55 for white-collar women, and demographics of four people over fifty for every child younger than ten. Grandparents with grandchildren in the parks and urban spaces are a common sight here.The Shanghai Oriental Sports Center, designed by Gerkan, Marg & Partners, was constructed from 2008 to 2010. It holds an 18,000-person gymnasium, and an indoor swimming pool and outdoor diving pool that seat 5,000 people each Host to the 14th World Aquatics Championship in 2011, the Center was designed to look like a wave crashing into the beach. (In this view, only the underside of the “wave” is visible.) The artificial lake was originally designed to connect to the Huangpu River, but stops short of Qiantan Blvd and the Youcheng Park riverfront greenway. It is a separate body of water from the pool, but was designed to thermally transfer heat to it. The buildings in the distance are in Xuhui, on the other (West) side of the Huangpu.The tower at the New Bund, visible through the trees from the waterfront.Another view of the New Bund tower from the waterfrontLooking across the former Jiufeng Village, at the New Bund skyline in Sanlinzhen.
