NYU Shanghai’s new 114,000-square-meter campus in the New Bund opened in Spring 2023. Composed of four interlocked structures, the university’s 9-story new home is set around an academic quadrangle. While the furnishings may be familiar, the New Bund campus has many new features to discover, including a black box theater, a recital hall, a smaller 250-seat lecture hall and a 600-seat auditorium, a loft dance studio, an art gallery, two athletic centers, a 5,000-square-meter library, a grassy atrium, and the Magnolia House – a winter garden lounge area.
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2023 February
Spring Semester Kicks off at the NYU Shanghai New Bund Campus
The new site located at 567 West Yangsi Road has become NYU Shanghai’s new permanent home.
2022 November
New Campus Update: Just Two Months Until the Big Move
With just two months left until NYU Shanghai makes its long-awaited move from Century Avenue to its new campus in Qiantan, it’s “all hands on deck” at the construction site.
2022 July
NYU Shanghai Reopens After Lockdown, Move to New Campus Delayed to Early 2023
NYU Shanghai’s Century Avenue Academic Building, which re-opened in mid-June, will serve as the hub of university activity for one more semester than planned, since the spring lockdown also temporarily halted construction on NYU Shanghai’s new campus in Shanghai’s Qiantan district, delaying the move-in to early 2023.
2021 September
New Campus Structure Complete as Work Turns to Interior Spaces
NYU Shanghai’s new campus in Pudong’s Qiantan neighborhood is speeding toward completion as interior finishing and exterior glass installation got underway in September. Workers completed all above-ground masonry work during the summer, paving the way for contractors to install plumbing, ductwork, and wiring, nearly 50 percent of which has been completed as of this month.
Chancellor Tong Shijun said he was looking forward to the day when the campus will serve as a center of education and cultural life in Shanghai. “We will be so proud to welcome students, faculty, and scholars from all over the world. The new campus combines features from the East and the West. It connects the present with the future. With such a great campus, I am confident that we will make a lasting and vital contribution to Pudong, to Shanghai, to China, and to the world.”
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2021 March
New Campus Construction Reaches Key Milestone
Workers secured the final beam of the ten-story steel frame for NYU Shanghai’s new campus in Pudong’s Qiantan neighborhood this week, marking the latest milestone in the construction project that kicked off in the spring of 2019.
“The past year has been very challenging for the entire world. But for all of us at NYU Shanghai, one of the true bright spots has been the construction of the new campus at Qiantan,” Vice Chancellor Jeffrey Lehman said in a brief “topping off” ceremony at the construction site.
Despite a nearly three-month work stoppage due to the COVID-19 pandemic last winter, construction of the 114,000 square meter campus is on track for completion in the Summer of 2022. Some 138 workers stayed on the job throughout the Spring Festival holiday in February, taking just a half day off on Chinese New Year Eve, to keep the project on schedule.
The last beam is lowered into place.
2020 March
Construction Resumes at Qiantan Campus Site
Shanghai’s Qiantan district bustled with the sounds of construction once again as work resumed on NYU Shanghai’s new campus site on March 18.
As with other projects throughout the city, construction of the 114,000-square-meter new campus halted in late January following the outbreak of COVID-19. The site’s workers were required to remain in their home provinces – most of them in Sichuan and Anhui – as part of China’s national efforts to contain the virus’s spread. Now, on one side of the site, backhoes load a column of dump trucks with earth as they finish excavating the shared basement for the campus’s four interconnected buildings. Meanwhile, several dozen workers weave steel bars into long prisms to form the subterranean braces for the structures’ 10 above-ground stories.
“It is wonderful to see life in Shanghai gradually returning to normal,” said Vice Chancellor Jeff Lehman. “We are very happy that our beautiful new campus is resuming its rise from the ground.”
Workers pour concrete to form the braces which will support the new campus’s second basement level.
2019 May
NYU Shanghai Breaks Ground on New Campus
Ground was broken on May 30 on a new 114,000 square meter campus for NYU Shanghai in Pudong’s Qiantan district. Shanghai Vice Mayor Chen Qun, Deputy Secretary-General of the Shanghai Municipal Government Gu Jinshan, members of the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission, and other friends of NYU Shanghai were present to celebrate the occasion, just hours before NYU Shanghai’s Class of 2019 Commencement.
NYU President Andrew Hamilton, Chairman of the NYU Board William R. Berkley, Secretary of the East China Normal University Party Committee Tong Shijun, Chairman of the Board of Lujiazui Properties Li Jinzhao, and Shanghai Construction Group President Bian Jiajun joined NYU Shanghai leaders in pulling the groundbreaking lever at the small morning ceremony on the building site.
“This groundbreaking ceremony marks an important step forward not just for NYU Shanghai, but also for Shanghai’s ongoing efforts to advance educational reform and its growth as an international metropolis,” said Yu Lizhong, a long-time Shanghai educational leader who has served as the university’s Chancellor since its founding in 2012.
