Historical background of the Peace Hotel is: 1854 by the designer Victor Sassoon designed, belongs to the Chicago School Gothic architecture.

Shanghai Peace Hotel North and South floors are located in Zhongshan Dong Dong Yi Road and Nanjing Road intersection vertically, in the Shanghai Peace Hotel overlooking the Huangpu River and can see the bustling Nanjing Road. The predecessor of the Shanghai Peace Hotel was the Chinachem Hotel, also known as the Sassoon Mansion. The Chinachem Hotel was designed by Victor Sassoon, a Jewish businessman, and belonged to the Chicago School of Gothic architecture. When it was first built*** it had twelve floors and was 77 meters high.

The Peace Hotel was divided into the South Building and the North Building, with the South Building being built before the North Building. The predecessor of the South Building was a three-story building, which was called the Central Hotel. The Central Hotel was built in 1854 as an inn with restaurants in Shanghai, and was renamed the Huizhong Hotel in 1903 after it was bought by a British businessman. 1906 saw the expansion of the Huizhong Hotel. The original three-story building was expanded to seven stories, which was the tallest building in Shanghai at that time. After the completion of the hotel, it had two of the earliest elevators in Shanghai and a rooftop garden.

Peace Hotel Architectural Characteristics

1, shape

Peace Hotel's north building has a 19-meter dark green pyramid of copper roofs, which has just become the Bund's iconic building, this is a kind of geometrical sense of the city's spatial contours play a stronger role in controlling the role of the city, but also different from the treatment of the roofs of any retrofitted buildings. The shape of the roof is different from any retro-architectural treatment.

2. Interior

The interior design of the North Tower is a typical Art Deco style, with bold and bright colors, using grass green, gold and white as the dominant colors, and emphasizing the gorgeous effect of the top ceiling and lighting, whose magnificence comes from the color of the materials themselves, and the exquisite details and diversity of decorative themes: the bronze carved doors, marble floor and wall parquet patterns, handrails, Lamps geometric decorations, etc., although the interior decoration is gorgeous, a closer look is mostly simple geometric, without losing the splendor of classical architecture, but also full of a sense of the times.

Refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Peace Hotel for the above