Report: Long Museum in Shanghai
- Hubertus Adam
Seen from the terrace of the Power Station of Art, a power plant converted to a museum for contemporary art, the grounds on which the world exposition was held in 2010 could give rise to disillusionment. The hosts claimed that the Expo Shanghai, as it was called at the time, would leave behind neither ruins nor wasteland. On the contrary, it would become the nucleus of new neighbourhoods. But the vast unfenced swathes of land tell another story: the post-expo uses barely function, or have yet to be introduced. But at least both banks of the river Huangpu have been made accessible to pedestrians, and the postindustrial transformation continues upstream.
