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Chinese studio Open Architecture has designed a theatre and library at the Shanghai Qingpu Pinghe International School China within a blue-coloured building that resembles a whale.
Named the Pinghe Bibliotheater, the building was designed by Open Architecture to combine two theatres with a library in one structure that would be a visual marker for the international school in Shanghai.
Open Architecture designed the Pinghe Bibliotheater at a school in Shanghai As the most important part of a high-density campus for a new K-12 school in Shanghai, the bibliotheater makes an unusual combination of two key components of teaching spaces, library and theatre, into one compact geometry, said Open Architecture co-founder Li Hu.