Yitian Shanghai lies within an intricate network of urban confluences. Surrounded by rather uniform developments, the building’s simple and elegant architecture emerges as an urban beacon. The multi-layered building is permeated by pedestrian circulation at both ground and lower level, which enable an event space where arts, culture, cinematic experience and open space collide. A multi-layered façade is an interplay of transparencies, the inner green 'hearth' and fly-over glass bridges revealing the activities inside and turning the building towards the public.

By choosing an extroverted architectural expression with a simple geometry - a facade that borrows from the street cinematics and infuses landscape and cultural programs - Yitian Shanghai provides a continuity with Shanghai's Modernist Tradition of the 30's, while injecting an active urban component and iconic presence to the neighborhood.