Following the completion of the New Soldiers Field, Ben set up a full time design studio in Shanghai.?? Working with a group of multi-lingual designers from all over the world, Ben Wood STUDIO SHANGHAI has helped transform the urban landscape of modern China. Studio Shanghai’s first project in China was Shanghai Xintiandi, a commercial cultural entertainment district with rebuilt traditional Shanghai Shi Ku Men architectures. We recently helped the Shanghai American School to complete their Puxi Campus, New buildings include a Black Box Theatre, Central Administration Complex, an Aquatic Center, and the Center for the Performing Arts. As well, we completed master plans for resort communities in Lijiang and Shangri-la, both in Yunnan Province.

Studio Shanghai’s current projects include: Shanghai Rock Bund project (located at the north Bund), “Xintiandi” projects in Chongching, Wuhan and Hangzhou, master plan for Xizang Road Taipingqiao District in Shanghai, Shanghai Pudong mixed used Project, three large residential communities - Cambridge Watertown, Cambridge Forest and Westwood Green, and a riverside high-rise complex in Danang, Vietnam.

In the Fall of 2005 Delphine Yip, a long time associate, became Ben’s partner.? Delphine is a graduate of the Harvard School of Design and is responsible for many of the Studio’s most notable projects.

No matter what the project is, Ben Wood STUDIO SHANGHAI strives to explore new relationships between form and function, and hopefully offer the users a fresh new way to experience space.?????