架构师提供的文本描述。位于上海南外滩区的新酷码头开发项目，水屋是一座四层，19间客房的精品酒店，建于20世纪30年代的一座现有的三层日军总部大楼中。这家精品酒店面向黄浦江，眺望着闪闪发光的浦东天际线。奈里背后的建筑理念

Text description provided by the architects. Located by the new Cool Docks development on the South Bund District of Shanghai, the Waterhouse is a four-story, 19-room boutique hotel built into an existing three-story Japanese Army headquarters building from the 1930’s. The boutique hotel fronts the Huangpu River and looks across at the gleaming Pudong skyline. The architectural concept behind Neri&Hu’s renovation rests on a clear contrast of what is old and new. The original concrete building has been restored while new additions built over the existing structure were made using Cor-Ten steel, reflecting the industrial past of this working dock by the Huangpu River. Neri&Hu’s structural addition, on the fourth floor, resonates with the industrial nature of the ships which pass through the river, providing an analogous contextual link to both history and local culture.

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佩德罗·佩佩诺特

Neri&Hu was also responsible for the design of the hotel’s interior, which is expressed through both a blurring and inversion of the interior and exterior, as well as between the public and private realms, creating a disorienting yet refreshing spatial experience for the hotel guest who longs for an unique five-star hospitality experience.

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C.Derryck Menere

公共空间可以让人窥视私人房间，而私人空间让人可以看到公共场所，例如前台上方的大垂直房间窗口和俯瞰餐厅的走廊窗户。这些意料之外的空间的视觉联系，不仅带来了一种惊奇的元素，还迫使酒店的客人面对当地的上海城市环境，在这里，紧致的南唐的视觉走廊和相邻区域决定了城市独特的空间气息。

The public spaces allow one to peek into private rooms while the private spaces invite one to look out at the public arenas, such as the large vertical room window above the reception desk and the corridor windows overlooking the dining room. These visual connections of unexpected spaces not only bring an element of surprise, but also force the hotel guests to confront the local Shanghai urban condition where visual corridors and adjacencies in tight nong-tang’s define the unique spatial flavor of the city.