Wanda Studios Entrance Gateway by Steven Chilton Architects
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Wanda Studios, designed by London-based Steven Chilton Architects, recently opened its gates for business. Located in the coastal city of Qingdao, in northeast China, Wanda Studios is part of Wanda’s new Movie Metropolis, the first filmmaking destination iWanda Studios Entrance Gateway by Steven Chilton Architects
Wanda Studios, designed by London-based Steven Chilton Architects, recently opened its gates for business. Located in the coastal city of Qingdao, in northeast China, Wanda Studios is part of Wanda’s new Movie Metropolis, the first filmmaking destination in China that meets international standards and aspires to become the new hub of global production. Currently the world’s largest film and television industry investment project, the Movie Metropolis covers an area of 3.76 million square meters, with a total construction area of 5.4 million square meters.“Marking the entrance into the studio with a recognizable gateway structure has become a tradition in the movie business. Familiar examples include the twin gates into Paramount Studios, the five arches into Universal Studios and the floating bridge into the Walt Disney Studio in Burbank, California,” writes Steven Chilton Architects. “The simple brief for the gateway into Wanda’s new studio called for a modern, elegant gateway that looked to the future of filmmaking whilst recognizing the past.”The design incorporates a strip of perforated celluloid film as a means to recognize the past. Each frame of the strip is defined by a structural bay, while the perforations are used to house the light fittings.“After weeks of research and optioneering, we settled on a concept that created a shallow, elegant arch whose form is defined by two long and slender, gently twisting surfaces. Each surface starts either side of the entrance on the ground in a vertical orientation. As they get closer to the entrance, the surfaces fan upwards and almost seem to take off as they rise above the road and pathways before folding back down on the other side,” adds the firm.The London-based firm is also designing Wuxi Taihu Show Theater in China’s Jiangsu Province. Inspired by the Sea of Bamboo Park in Yixing, the largest bamboo forest in China, the theater’s slender white columns along the building’s perimeter represent an abstract impression of a bamboo forest.Click on the slideshow for a sneak peek at the Wanda Studios Entrance Gateway.http://www.blouinartinfo.com/ Founder: Louise Blouin Read more