Shanghai Top Ten Travel Attractions 1. Oriental Pearl Radio and Television Tower
The Oriental Pearl Tower is second only to the Toronto TV Tower in Canada and the Moscow TV Tower in Russia. The Oriental Pearl TV Tower chooses the round curved body favored by the Oriental nation as the basic building line. The main body has three oblique cylinders, three straight cylinders and 11 spheres, forming a huge space frame structure. There are six elevators in the cylinder, one of which is a double-deck elevator that can carry 50 people, and another one operates between the upper sphere and the space capsule. The tower can be visited in the following places: the lower sphere, the middle sphere and the corridor, the upper sphere and the space capsule. Lower sphere top 118 meters high, with sightseeing corridor and dream space city, etc.; upper sphere top 295 meters high, with rotating tea room, restaurant and can accommodate 1600 people sightseeing platform. Between the upper and lower ball there are 5 small ball, is 5 sets of high-altitude luxury hotel; space warehouse for foreign guests to sightseeing. The lights can be automatically adjusted according to the weather under computer manipulation, producing more than 1,000 kinds of changes. The lighting effect of the TV tower is also breathtaking. Take the elevator on the Oriental Pearl Tower, only forty seconds, you can reach 263 meters high on the sightseeing ball, where, as far as the eye can see, Shanghai's scenery at a glance, the original skyscrapers, and now they all seem to be a lot shorter, meandering on the Huangpu River, the giant ship such as a shuttle, stretching into the sea. Separated on both sides of the two bridges, such as the two dragons, flying in the Huangpu River, and the middle of the Oriental Pearl Tower together, skillfully combined into a picture of the two dragons playing with the pearl of the giant picture.
At night, the huge sphere is adorned with colorful lights, glittering with brilliance and stars, making it even more crystal clear. With the lighted buildings on the Bund in Puxi, it shows the charming night of the modern metropolis. The tower and the expansion of 155,000 square meters of Pudong Park into one, there are 15 different sizes in the park, the TV tower of two huge sphere, so the "Pearl of the Orient," as the name. Nearby there are entertainment centers, commercial centers, will be a large multifunctional tourist attractions in Pudong. It has become one of the "Top Ten New Landscapes of Shanghai in the 90s" and "Top Ten Tourist Attractions".
2. 88th Floor Sightseeing Hall of Jinmao Tower
The 88th floor sightseeing hall of Jinmao Tower, with a height of 340.1 meters and an area of 1,520 square meters, is the largest sightseeing hall in China at present. The 88th floor sightseeing hall of Jinmao Tower, one of the first 4A tourist attractions in China, is the highest and largest sightseeing hall in China at present, and has been honored as the most of Shanghai Great World Guinness. Two vertical elevators running at 9.1 meters per second can carry 33 passengers at a time, and it takes only 45 seconds to transport visitors from the first floor to the 88th floor. Ascending to the heights and looking far away, the landscape of Shanghai can be seen at the bottom of your eyes, with high-rise buildings standing on both sides of the river, and hundreds of barges competing for the flow on the Huangpu River, you can personally experience the beauty of "the sunset sun and the lone rushes fly together, and the water of the autumn water *** long sky in one color". After enjoying the outside view, you can also view the world's unparalleled hotel atrium from above, it is 27 meters in diameter, 28 corridor handrails in the neon light, shining gold. The corridors are like rows of galleries, and the view is breathtaking. The view is so exciting that you can't help but pick up your camera to leave an eternal memory. The incomparable hotel atrium of Jinmao Tower has been hailed by architects, scientists and literary scholars as a ? ****Space for Enjoyment? The Golden Wheel Golden Wheel? and a tunnel of time and space. the tunnel of time and space.
It is even more enjoyable to see the night view from the 88th floor observation lounge, where the Bund, known as a universal architectural exposition, is ablaze with color and beauty. In the distance, the lights on the elevated roads and bridges look like colorful trains, competing with the stars and the moon. It's like you're in a heavenly paradise.
The 88th floor observation lounge features China's highest? The postal service on the 88th floor of the Jinmao Tower Observation Deck provides visitors with precious postal products and special services. The Observation Lounge also has a digital photography service to leave permanent memories for visitors.
For the convenience of visitors, there is a cafeteria on the first floor at the entrance and exit of the sightseeing hall, which provides different flavors and inexpensive fast food snacks. On the third to sixth floors of the podium there are stainless steel spiral staircases, glass-floored sky bridges and suspended nine-curve bridges. You can appreciate the unique style and boldly conceived architectural art there, as well as visit exhibitions, shop for souvenirs and enjoy a wide range of services.
Early in 1999, another landmark building in Shanghai proudly stood on the banks of the Huangpu River, and the long-awaited 88-story Jinmao Tower, which is the third largest in the world and the first in China, was finally introduced to the market. This building, which integrates a modern office building, a luxurious five-star hotel, a commercial convention and exhibition center, high-grade banquets, sightseeing, entertainment, shopping malls, and other comprehensive facilities, and which is rich in the Chinese cultural connotation and the western architectural art, has become an intelligent skyscraper with a unique style and bold ideas. The intelligent skyscraper has become the most convenient, comfortable, flexible and safe place for office, finance, commerce, entertainment and catering in Shanghai. Jinmao Tower was approved as a project on February 17, 1992, started construction on May 10, 1994, topped out on August 28, 1997, opened for business on March 18, 1999, and was fully operational on August 28 of that year. Jinmao Tower covers an area of 2.3 hectares, with a tower height of 420.5 meters and a total construction area of 290,000 square meters.
Situated at the tunnel entrance of Yan'an East Road in Pudong, next to Century Avenue, it is located in the core area of Pudong, the center of Lujiazui Finance and Trade Zone. Lujiazui financial and trade zone center, east of Pudong New Area's bustling scene, west of Shanghai and the Huangpu River's elegant scenery, south of Pudong Zhangyang Road business and trade areas, north of 100,000 square meters of central green space. The building is surrounded by a well-developed road network and very convenient transportation, with a direct access to the Cross River Tunnel and Metro Line 2. From Jinmao Tower to the busiest neighborhoods in Puxi, it takes only 2 minutes to cross the tunnel, and the driving time to Shanghai Hongqiao Airport or to Pudong International Airport is only 30 minutes, which makes the location superior.
The designer of Jinmao Tower is the famous SOM Design Office in Chicago, USA. With innovative design ideas, the designers skillfully combined the world's latest architectural trends with traditional Chinese architectural styles, and succeeded in designing a world-class, cross-century classic, which has become a milestone of Haikai architecture, and has become a famous landmark building in Shanghai, and was awarded the Illinois World Architecture Grand Prize in June 1998, and the First Prize of the Shanghai Top Ten Classical Buildings for the 50th Anniversary of New China in October 1999, and the First Prize of the Gold Prize of the Shanghai Top Ten Classical Buildings for the 50th Anniversary of New China. In October 1999, it was honored as the first prize of Shanghai Top Ten Classic Buildings for the 50th Anniversary of New China.
3. The Bund
The Bund, a symbol of Shanghai for more than a hundred years, is located on the west bank of the Huangpu River from Waibaidu Bridge to Nampu Bridge, with a total length of 4 kilometers, and it is one of the top ten new landscapes and top ten tourist attractions in Shanghai in the 1990s. The east side of the Bund is the vast Huangpu River and the beautiful new embankment of the Bund, where tourists can enjoy the mother of Shanghai's new river ---- Huangpu River, a distant view of the opposite bank of the Pudong Lujiazui area of the new posture, or a walk in the green trees and flower beds, feel the metropolis of the garden's distinctive flavor, to enjoy the metropolis of the rare fresh air of the bright sunshine.
The west side of the Bund stands a variety of different styles of Chinese and Western buildings, showing the "Far East Wall Street" style, today known as the "universal architectural exposition" of the building complex. Only from the Waibaidu Bridge in the north to Jinling East Road in the south, 1.5 kilometers long section, there are 52 buildings of various styles, including Gothic, Baroque, Romanesque, Classical, Renaissance, Chinese and Western. Accompanied by the sound of the bell, the Customs Building is always the first to attract the attention of visitors. The Customs Building is the main building of the Bund complex, which was built in 1927 and designed by the British designer Wilson. The appearance of the building has an eclectic style that combines European classical and modern styles. The clock was modeled after the one in the Houses of Parliament in London, England, and shipped to Shanghai for assembly after it was finished in England, making it one of the world's most famous clocks.
Huangpu Park, built in August 1868, is the earliest park in Shanghai, with the Huangpu River to the east and the Suzhou River to the north. With the change of time, the park has been remodeled many times, and 1989 is the most recent remodeling. After the reconstruction of Huangpu Park, covers an area of 31 acres, in the retention of the original trees at the same time, so that the green area of 10.92 acres, and make the park's attractions are also arranged in a reasonable manner. Inside the main gate of the park, there? A large bronze worker sculpture with a magnificent body, raising a sail to meet the incoming waves, fighting bravely, known as the Pujiang tide. Pujiang River Tide. In the sunken island, built by the - Comrade's handwritten title of the Shanghai People's Heroes Memorial Tower, the tower set under the Bund History Memorial Museum. Sculpture around, surrounded by greenery, flowers, is a good place for tourists to take photographs; sculpture behind the wisteria frame promenade, for people to relax; the park's two large panels of green lawn, planted with lush magnolia, camellia, osmanthus? Give a person a pleasant feeling. The overall layout of the park is decent, attractions rows are staggered. The beautiful scenery of Huangpu Park, set sightseeing, leisure, education in one, is a resort for sightseeing.
The statue of Chen Yi, the first mayor of Shanghai, stands in Chen Yi Square at the end of Ten Mile Nanjing Road. Chen Yi for the liberation of Shanghai, the construction of Shanghai set up Ding immortal merit, the people of Shanghai for the old mayor full of respect, in order to commemorate him, the Shanghai Municipal Government decided to set up the old mayor's statue in the Bund on East Nanjing Road. Chen Yi statue sitting north to south, cast in bronze, 5.6 meters high, the base with red polished granite masonry, 3.5 meters high, the statue reproduces the typical posture of Comrade Chen Yi when he inspects the work, showing that he is all the way to the dusty, hard-working image of the public servant, but also amiable, open-mindedness of the Confucian general style. Every weekend, in front of the statue will hold a grand and enthusiastic square concert. Chen Yi statue south of the square spring, it is the shape of the outer circumference of the square, the inner circle of the oval modern fountain. Water column with the sound jet, high and low, the bottom of the pool installed colorful light source, night with the change of lights, strip of water column reflecting the red, yellow, blue, green beams of light for the Bund to add a magnificent night scene.
Huangpu River tour is an important traditional tourist program in Shanghai, it is not only in the Huangpu River is the mother river of Shanghai, representing the symbol and epitome of Shanghai, but also in the two sides of the river, the collection of the essence of the cityscape of Shanghai, from which you can see Shanghai's past, present, and look forward to Shanghai's brilliant tomorrow. During the tour, you can see the Yangpu Bridge, Nanpu Bridge and Shanghai Oriental Pearl Radio and Television Tower across the river. The two bridges, like two dragons lying on the Huangpu River, the center is the Oriental Pearl TV Tower, just constitute a picture? Two dragons playing pearls? The giant scroll, and the west bank of the Pujiang River, a block of very different styles full of rich exotic colors of the world's buildings and the east bank of Pudong, a block of uprooted modern buildings towering above the clouds, people are dazzled. Wusongkou, is the Huangpu River, the Yangtze River and the East China Sea where three streams of water meet, if the tide is high, you can see the famous? Three water? Spectacle, the Huangpu River from the city with the green-gray water, the Yangtze River brings the yellow water with sand, and the East China Sea is the green color of the sea, the three different colors of water, clear and distinct, forming a brightly colored? Three water?
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4. Nanjing Road Pedestrian Street
Shanghai's Nanjing Road is Shanghai's most lively and bustling commercial street, known as "China's first commercial street". Here gathered hundreds of modern commercial buildings, old Chinese stores and famous special product stores, Nanjing Road has become China's largest retail distribution center and commercial information convergence, the daily flow of people to Nanjing Road reached millions of people.
At night, the entire East Nanjing Road is illuminated in a multitude of colors. Nanjing Road has lived up to its reputation as "China's first commercial street" with its gorgeous architecture, numerous stores, bustling markets, and brilliant night scenery, and in 1999, it was transformed into China's first all-weather pedestrian street.
The 1033-meter-long Nanjing Road Pedestrian Street Phase I planning from Middle Henan Road to Middle Xizang Road, the use of asymmetric design, in the straight north of Nanjing Road, there has always been a straight through the whole street of the "Golden Belt", which focuses on a variety of flower beds, kiosks, etc., in the setting sun, the "Golden Belt" is like a scene of rich and colorful motion picture. At the same time, Nanjing Road Pedestrian Street business pattern has also changed, store "thousands of stores one side" phenomenon has become history.
Walking Street on the one hundred, Hualian, New World continue to retain its comprehensive department store features, while the rest of the commercial buildings to "a store, a product" of the development of professional commercial buildings. At the same time, the pedestrian street has greatly increased the catering, leisure, entertainment components, so that Nanjing Road pedestrian street has developed into an "elegant eastern section, the middle section of the professional, the western section of the prosperity of the" pattern.
5. Shanghai Xintiandi
Shanghai Xintiandi is an urban tourist attraction with Shanghai's historical and cultural features, which is based on Shanghai's unique old Shikumen architecture, transformed into an international level of catering, commerce, entertainment, culture and recreation of the leisure pedestrian street.
Shikumen is frozen in the architecture of Shanghai's history and culture, it and Yuyuan Garden Ming and Qing Dynasty architectural complex, the Bund financial complex, Nanjing Road department store complex, etc., reflecting, as Shanghai's urban tourism landscape.
Shanghai Xintiandi, located in the center of the city and on the south side of Huaihai Zhong Road, is a fashionable and leisure pedestrian street composed of Shikumen buildings and modern buildings. It covers an area of 30,000 square meters with a building area of 60,000 square meters. The exterior of this complex of Shikumen buildings retains the brick walls, roof tiles and Shikumen doors of the past, as if you have traveled back in time and are in the 1920s. However, the interior of each building is tailored to the lifestyle of the modern city dweller in the 21st century. The pace of life, the emotional world tailored to become an international gallery, fashion stores, theme restaurants, coffee bars.
Hong Kong stars such as Alan Tam and Jackie Chan run the ? Oriental charm catering and entertainment center? is the star culture combined with the creativity of the restaurant, there will be star-struck people can often communicate with the idol in the heart of the place; Taiwan's famous film actress Yang Huishan operated by the Liuligongfang theme restaurant, will enable visitors to measure in the colorful crystal palace in the meal; the French restaurant's Parisian cabaret and the underground wine cellar dining room is fascinating; Japanese music restaurant night and night rock and roll around the beams; Brazilian barbecue restaurant brings the South American style show?
The fashion boutiques there follow the international trend, not half a step behind, and the Chinese Culture Mall sells home furnishings, handicrafts and souvenirs created by artisans and craftsmen, all in authentic Chinese flavor. The colorful cultural performances in the open-air plaza give visitors plenty to participate in. The Shikumen Museum has been rearranged by rearranging a building. Furniture furnishings, original reproduction of the living pattern of a family in Shanghai at the beginning of the 20th century, allowing visitors to understand the history and culture of Shanghai in a nostalgic mood of searching for their roots. The museum also through pictures. Video to understand the evolution of Shanghai Xintiandi from the old Shikumen building area to a fashionable leisure pedestrian street.
Shikumen lilong in Xintiandi embodies 21st-century comfort and convenience everywhere, with automatic elevators, central air-conditioning and broadband Internet. Consumers can go online to quickly check the prices of goods in stores and restaurants. Bar menus, as well as movies playing in movie theaters, and can reserve seats and browse directly online to view cultural performances in Xintiandi's piazza and restaurants. Walking into Xintiandi, more fashion and new trend, let a person can't see and see enough; more participation and input, let a person have fun for a day to play enough. Shanghai Xintiandi will become the best place for Chinese and foreign tourists to enjoy Shanghai's history, culture and modern life style, as well as a meeting place for local citizens and expatriates with cultural taste.
6. Memorial Hall of the First National Congress of the Chinese ****production Party
The site of the First National Congress of the Chinese ****production Party, referred to as the site of the First National Congress of the Chinese ****production Party, is the birthplace of the Chinese ****production Party. The site is located in Shanghai Xingye Road 76 (formerly Wangzhi Road 106), is a street along the brick and wood structure of the bottom of a floor of the old Shikumen residential buildings, sitting north to south.
The First National Congress of the Chinese ****production Party was held from July 23 to July 30, 1921 in the downstairs living room.
The site of the First National Congress of the C**** became a memorial hall after 1952, and on May 26, 1959, it was announced as a cultural relics protection unit of Shanghai.
In 1961, it was listed by the State Council as the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units.
In June 1997, it became a national patriotic education demonstration base.
In September 2016, it was selected as one of the ? the first batch of China's 20th century architectural heritage? Directory.
The houses of the site of China***s First Congress were built in the fall of 1920, and soon after its completion, Li Hanjun (one of the initiators of the Shanghai***productivist group) and his brother, Li Shucheng (one of the initiators of the Allied Association), rented No. 106 and No. 108 of Wangzhi Road as apartments, and opened up the inner walls of the two houses to make them into one family, which was known as the ? Li Gongguan?
July 23, 1921, from all over the early organization of the Chinese ****production party representatives Li Da, Li Hanjun, Zhang Guotao, Liu Renjing, Mao Zedong, He Shuheng, Dong Biwu, Chen Tanqiu, Wang Zhenmei, Deng Enming, Chen Gongbo, Zhou Fuhai, as well as Bao Huisheng and ****production international representatives, such as Marin, secretly converged in the French Concession in Shanghai, Beileu Road Shuderi 3 (today's 76 Xingye Road, the site), held a Chinese *****products.
In 1922, the Li brothers moved out of the house and retired the rent, which was rented by other residents.
In 1924, the house was remodeled, with additional rooms and a store downstairs.
After the founding of New China, in order to meet the 30th anniversary of the founding of the party, in September 1950, the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the **** according to the instructions of the Central Committee, looking for the site of the First Congress of the ****. After many surveys, Li Da, Dong Biwu, Bao Huisheng and Mrs. Li Shucheng and many other historical parties and witnesses on-site survey, confirmed that 76 Xingye Road as the site of the C*** First Congress.
7. Yuyuan
Yuyuan is located in the northeastern part of Shanghai's old city hall, north of Fuyou Road, east of Anren Street, southwest of Shanghai and the old City God Temple adjacent to the famous Jiangnan Classical Gardens, known as the Chinese and foreign attractions and sightseeing spots, for the national key cultural relics protection units.
Yuyuan Garden was originally a private garden in the Ming Dynasty, built during the Jiajing and Wanli years, with a history of more than 400 years. The owner of the garden, Pan Yunduan, was the former minister of Sichuan Province. His father, Pan En, known as Ziren, or Kasajiang, was the left imperial inspector of the Duzha Academy and the Minister of Justice. The Pan family was one of the most prestigious families in Shanghai at that time. In 1553, the nine-mile-long Shanghai city wall was built, which gradually calmed down the Japanese invasion along the southeast coast, and stabilized the people of Shanghai, whose lives and properties had been under constant threat for more than twenty years, and restored the social economy and began to prosper. Scholars have built gardens to enjoy their lives and sing about the wind and moon. Pan En aged resigned and returned to his hometown, Pan Yunduan in order to let his father enjoy a peaceful old age, from Ming Jiajing Jiwei year (1559), in the Pan family residence Shichun Hall west of a few beds of vegetable fields, polystone chiseling pools, pavilions, art and bamboo, the construction of gardens. After more than twenty years of painstaking management, the Yu Garden was built. Yu? There are? Pingan? and? An Tai? The name Yuyuan is a symbol of peace and tranquility. Yuyuan? and the name "Yuyuan" means "Peaceful" and "Tranquil". Yu Yue old relatives? The meaning of the name is "Yuyuan", which means "Yu Yue old relatives".
8. Shanghai Longhua Temple
Longhua Temple is the oldest and largest temple in Shanghai, more than 1,700 years ago, the name of the temple comes from the Buddhist scriptures on the Maitreya Bodhisattva under the Dragon Tree to become a Buddha allusion. Most of the buildings of Longhua Temple belong to the Tongzhi and Guangxu years of the Qing Dynasty, and maintain the format of the seven halls of the Song Dynasty, which are, in order, the Hall of Maitreya, the Hall of the Heavenly King, the Hall of the Daxiongbao, the Hall of the Three Saints, the abbot's room and the scripture collection building.
The clock tower on the side of the Hall of the Heavenly King is 3-storey high and hangs a bronze bell with a green dragon cast in 20 years of the Qing Guangxu Dynasty, which is about 2 meters high, with a diameter of up to 1.3 meters and weighing more than 5 tons, ? Longhua evening bell? is also the former? Shanghai eight scenic spots? It is also one of the eight scenic spots in Shanghai in the past. On the scripture building, there are various versions of the Great Tibetan Scriptures, Buddhist scriptures and various precious cultural relics, including the three treasures of Longhua Temple, which are known as the "Three Treasures of the Temple". Three Treasures of Longhua Temple of the Ming Wanli years Royal Edict of the Dazangjing 718 letters; Fanjin Thousand Leaf Treasure Lotus Velucca Buddha; the imperial seal of a gold.
The annual New Year's bell ringing activity in Longhua, the annual March 3 of the lunar calendar, Longhua Temple Fair, has been more than 300 years of history, has become a regular tourist festivals in Shanghai.
9. Binjiang Avenue
Binjiang Avenue adopts a hierarchical three-dimensional design, at the top of the slope covered with flowers and green grass, people can stand on a more spacious platform to get a glimpse of Puxi Bund extraordinary beauty. Introducing Binjiang Avenue belongs to the Lujiazui Finance and Trade Zone, a pedestrian boulevard along the Huangpu River, opposite to the Bund area of Shanghai. Riverside Avenue is a tourist attraction integrating sightseeing and green environment. It runs along the Huangpu River from Dongchang Road Pier to Taitong Stack Pier, about 2,500 meters long, like a turquoise ribbon with a very pleasant view. In the center of the Riverside Avenue, there is a water spraying plaza composed of 21 water spraying heads, flowing water is slowly injected into the pool in the plaza, the Huangpu River is bordered by railings with chains, there are leisure double chairs on the bank, and the river and the boats form a beautiful scenery, which makes people forget to come back to the city.
In the Fudu World section of Riverside Avenue, a yacht marina converted from an old pier is unique, with a strikingly huge iron anchor erected on the pier and the construction of several bollards. By more than a hundred water jets composed of a huge fountain installed in the colorful lights, shine in the night. Riverside Avenue is a collection of flood control wall, riverside avenue, waterfront platforms, musical fountains, marinas in one is known as Pudong's ? New Bund?
10. Shanghai Bund Complex
150 years ago, when the colonizers set foot on this piece of unfamiliar land in Shanghai, they took a fancy to this beach on the Huangpu River. Thus, this was once a slim path trodden out by boatmen and hard laborers. After more than a hundred years of construction, high-rise buildings and traffic flow. These buildings, where classicism and modernism coexist, have become the symbol of Shanghai.
The Bund, stretching from Waibaidu Bridge in the north to Jinling East Road in the south, is about 1.5 kilometers long, with the Huangpu River to the east and 52 mansions of different styles to the west, and the essence of the Bund lies in these buildings known as the ? The essence of the Bund lies in these buildings, which are known as the Expo of Architecture of All Nations. The essence of the Bund lies in these buildings, which are known as the "Expo of Architecture of All Nations". The famous Bank of China Building, Peace Hotel, Customs Building and HSBC Building recreate the old days of Wall Street in the Far East. Far East Wall Street? Although these buildings were not designed by the same designer or built in the same period, their architectural colors are basically uniform and their overall contour lines are amazingly coordinated. Whether you are looking at it from afar or wandering through it, you can feel a kind of robustness, majesty, grace, and noble momentum.
Some people say? The story of the Bund is the story of Shanghai. The Bund that a reinforced concrete buildings, is not telling the old Shanghai Bund as a dream-like prosperous past.
Asia Building
Hailed as the first building on the Bund? The First Building on the Bund?
The Asia Building
was built in 1906 and was originally known as the McBoone Building. It is 8-story, with a floor area of 11,984 square meters and covers an area of 1,739 square meters. The appearance of the building has an eclectic style. The fa?ade is of three horizontal and three vertical sections. The bottom section and the upper section are baroque modeling, and the middle section is modernist architectural style. The building is majestic, simple but not lacking in grandeur. It can be described as simple and complex, noble and elegant.
The Toyo London? is the nickname of Dongfeng Hotel, built in 1910, belongs to the Renaissance architecture, the appearance of both the American classicism, and reference to the Empire State Building in Japan, so it gets this nickname. When it was built at No. 2 Zhongshan Yi Road, it was the most luxurious club in Shanghai at that time. Shanghai Club. The first floor of the building is a restaurant, the second floor is the International Seamen's Club, and the rest are guest rooms. The entire hotel is well-equipped and beautifully decorated, making it an ideal choice for business accommodations. The chic triangular elevator in the building is made by Siemens and is 90 years old.
Favorable Building
No. 4, Zhongshan Dong Yi Road, is now owned by Singapore's Jia Tong Pte Ltd. Originally known as the Union Building, it was owned by the United States Beneficial Bank, so it was called the Beneficial Bank Building. Completed in 1916, the 7-storey building is modeled after the Renaissance architectural style. Window frames are mostly used in Baroque art rich in rotating patterns, the door is decorated with Ionic columns, tall floor-to-ceiling windows are conducive to both light, but also to add momentum to the building. The whole building is the door as the center of the axisymmetric figure. Therefore, it gives people a peaceful feeling.
East meets West in the Nisshin Building
The Nisshin Building, which combines modern Japanese Western architecture with classical architectural styles, is known as the "Nisshin Style". Nissei style? The building was constructed as a joint venture between Nippon Sei Kisen Co. and Jews. It was built in 1925, located in Zhongshan Dong Yi Road No. 5, the building is 6-storey high, covering an area of 1,280 square meters, the bottom three floors of the decoration is relatively simple, the upper three floors have classical columns and carvings and decorations, a strong sense of concavity and convexity. The whole fa?ade of the building is made of granite, reflecting with other buildings on the Bund. The Riqing Building is now used by the Huaxia Bank and the Jindu Industrial General Corporation.
The Bank of China Building
6 Zhongshan Dong Yi Road, where the Chinese opened their first bank in 1897 with their own funds. The China General Merchants Bank, which is now home to Hong Kong's Qiaofu International Enterprises Ltd. The building is a fake four-story Gothic-style building. The fourth floor of the building has five spire levels and originally had crosses. The third and fourth floors have small spires. The fourth floor of the building has windows in the form of pointed coupons, and the first and second floors have floral pane windows typical of the Gothic style. The significance of this European-style building, which is about to turn a century old, goes far beyond its historical and artistic character. It can be said that it is the opening page in China's financial history.
The Great Northern Telegraph Company Building
No. 7 Zhongshan Dongshan Yi Road is a Renaissance-style building. The building focuses on unity, symmetry and stability, and the facade is very well decorated. Classical style columns are used on each floor, either for load-bearing or just for decoration. The windows are surrounded by a variety of graphics and a strong sense of three-dimensionality, approximating the Baroque style. Its black roof and white windows form a sharp contrast. At the same time, it does not lose a sense of elegance. This building is now the Shanghai branch of Pangoku Bank. Since its construction in 1908, it has changed ownership four times, first known as the Great Northern Telegraph Company Building. It was later used by the China Merchants Bank and the Yangtze River Shipping Company.
China Merchants Building
The first new shipping enterprise run by China itself? It was during this period that the China Merchants Bureau was founded. Built in 1901, the building is a three-story brick structure facing west and east. The main door frame of the ground floor extends outward, and there are spacious arched floor-to-ceiling windows on both sides of the main door, and the fa?ade of the second and third floors is decorated with classical columns. The partial facade of the building is veneered with granite. The China Merchants Building can be regarded as a typical Bund building of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Whether it is historical or artistic, it is worth a visit.
Pudong Development Bank Building (former Shanghai Municipal People's Government Building and HSBC Building)
No. 10-12 Zhongshan Dongshan Yi Road is a neo-Greek building constructed in 1923 as the Shanghai branch of the American bank HSBC. The US boasted the building as the most elaborate building from the Suez Canal to the Bering Strait in the Far East. When the building was built, two large, striking bronze lions were placed in front of the building, and it is said that the bronze molds were destroyed immediately after the lions were cast. This made the pair of bronze lions an out-of-print treasure, which has now been sent to the Shanghai Museum of History. The top of the octagonal foyer of the building, more than 20 meters above the ground, there are 8 by hundreds of thousands of pieces of only a few square centimeters of color mosaic mosaic mural. It is 4.3 meters wide and 2.4 meters high, depicting the architectural styles of eight cities, including Shanghai, Hong Kong, London, Paris, New York, Tokyo, Bangkok and Calcutta, at the beginning of the 20th century, complete with images of mythological figures, and 24 for the forms of animals in mythological stories, with a huge mythological mural at the top, covering a total area of nearly 200 square meters.
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