THE FUSE

The Shanghai Grand Opera House opens this weekend, marking an important moment for the Chinese city, which now welcomes an important new cultural destination into its folds; and set in a linear arrangement along the Huangpu River, the new venue does not disappoint. The building was conceived to bring together state-of-the-art performance, sculptural architecture and a green, walkable public realm – and so it does, to a design by renowned Norwegian architecture studio Snøhetta.