8号桥艺术空间·1908粮仓

Bridge 8 Art Space · 1908 Granary occupies 1247 Nan Suzhou Road in Huangpu District, on the south bank of Suzhou Creek between Xinzha Road Bridge and Wuzhen Road Bridge, facing the Sihang Warehouse across the water. The building dates from 1908, when it served as the second warehouse of the Chinese Commercial Bank and later as the private granary of the Shanghai magnate Du Yuesheng; it remained in storage use for more than a century and is a textbook piece of the creek's industrial heritage belt. Its facade is fair-faced red brick with grey-brick insets, the warehouse windows and doors are largely timber-grained with fine detailing, and the roof is a hipped, gable-and-hip form; inside, floors and columns show rough grain and old whitewash cannot hide the cracks between bricks, so the archaic and the avant-garde sit together. In 2017 the designer Wang Changxing came across the long-abandoned house and led a 48-day restoration and reprogramming, keeping the fabric as found and preserving the five site elements of warehouse, river, bridge, brick and timber before reopening it as Bridge 8 Art Space. The building has just over 2,000 square metres over three floors: the ground floor is an interactive leisure level with the Beer Lady craft taproom and a bookshop; the second floor is a cultural and art level for exhibitions and training; the third is a performance level for theatre, film and fashion shoots. Operator Bridge 8 Group also runs exhibitions, cultural exchanges, art events, fashion releases and brand pop-ups here. It opens Tuesday to Sunday, 9:30 to 17:00, closed Monday, a short walk from Xinzha Road station on Line 1, and suits small and mid-sized exhibitions, launches, filming and salons.