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Is urban biodiversity attainable? This steel-factory-turned-greenhouse shows how

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Better City – Better Life. That was the theme of the 2010 World Expo held in Shanghai, China. While some of the structures remain, the area – well-positioned near the city centre on the banks of the Huangpu River – had almost returned to its pre-Expo state as a sprawling industrial area complete with a coal-fired power plant and steelworks. Now, more than a decade later, the site is starting to live up to the Expo’s theme. It began with the city’s desire to transform the area into a new green lung – a necessity for a city experiencing constant growth, smog and pollution, water shortages and rising temperatures.

As part of the transformation, Delugan Meissl Associated Architects (DMAA) won a competition to turn the old Shanggang Third Steel Factory into a lush experiential greenhouse. ‘We needed to use part of the existing steel structure,’ says project lead Diogo Teixeira. ‘But we said, let’s use it all.’ The result is a juxtaposition of a rigid geometric frame and organically shaped glass pavilions. Yin and yang, as Teixeira describes it.
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