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In 1959 the museum moved into the Zhonghui Building at 16 South Henan Road, which housed insurance companies and bank offices. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] During the metal-gathering campaign of the Great Leap Forward , the Shanghai Museum participated in rescuing bronzeware from metal that had been confiscated or donated and were sent to be melted down.
Union Building: Bank of Shanghai Puxi Branch: 261 Sichuan Middle Road: 1926: 25: A-III-047: Brunner Mond Building: Shanghai Warehousing Industry Association/Shanghai Commercial Warehousing Co., Ltd. 133 Sichuan Middle Road: 1922: 26: A-III-048: New HSBC Building: Shanghai Municipal Government Office: 220 Sichuan Middle Road: 1928: 27: A-III-029 ...
Charles Henry Gonda (22 June 1889 – 1 April 1969), professionally known as C. H. Gonda, was a Hungarian architect famous for his ultra-modern style of building.He was active in Shanghai throughout the 1920s–1940s and began working on his first project, the Messrs, Lane, Crawford & Co's New Frontage building, in 1922 after leaving his previous firm Probst, Hanbury & Co..
The Park and Square together occupy what was once the Shanghai racecourse, and today still make up one of the largest open spaces in central Shanghai. The building was designed by architect Ling Benli of the East China Architecture Design & Research Institute (ECADI), as a harmonious balance to the Grand Theatre, another contemporary building ...
The building has a floor area of 23,415 square metres (252,040 sq ft), and was, at the time, the largest bank building in the Far East, and second largest in the world, after the Bank of Scotland building in Edinburgh. The building exterior adopted a strict neo-classicist design, with a tripartite vertical and horizontal division. In the centre ...
In 2011 there are over 20,000 buildings 11 stories or higher and more than 1,000 buildings exceeding 30 stories in Shanghai. [3] As of January 2019, there are 165 high-rise buildings either under construction, approved for construction, or proposed for construction, of which five are over 300 m (980 ft) high. [4]
Bund Center is a 198 m (650 ft), 50-storey tower in the Huangpu area of Shanghai, China. Designed by the architects of John Portman and Associates, the tower was completed in 2002. The building is mainly used for offices and major tenants of the building are Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Nokia, APP and Regus.
In the 1990s, major changes were made to the square. The Shanghai Municipal Government was moved here from the former HSBC Building on the Bund, also the Shanghai Museum was moved here from its previous site in a former office building. More recent additions include the Shanghai Grand Theatre and the Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Hall.