Can I visit the address of Shanghai HSBC Building?

Friends who often go to the Bund will surely find a magnificent and magnificent building, that is, HSBC Tower. This building needs to be punched, and its facade is open all year round. If you want to visit the scenic spot, you can only go in if you open at 09:00- 16:00 every day!

1. The building itself HSBC Building, now known as Shanghai Pudong Development Bank Building, is located at the intersection of Zhongshan Dongyi Road and Fuzhou Road, facing west to east. The building was designed by British commercial companies and foreign companies and built by British commercial companies. 192 1 year,1June, 923. The building covers an area of 9338m2 with a building area of 234 15m2. There is one basement, five floors above ground (excluding mezzanine) and seven floors in the middle. The whole building is a steel frame structure. As a part of the Bund complex in Shanghai, the building was announced as a national key cultural relic protection unit.

The exterior of the building is a rigorous western neoclassical style, and the facade materials are clearly defined. The main facade along the street adopts granite and exquisite copper doors and windows, and the secondary facade adopts water brush stone veneer and steel doors and windows. The architectural modeling adopts vertical and horizontal three-stage processing, and the vertical and horizontal lines connecting the main entrance and the dome form bilateral symmetry, which visually constitutes a sense of stability. The base adopts rough granite walls and arches, and the middle part is supported by Corinthian colonnade running through the second, third and fourth floors, which enhances the three-dimensional sense of the whole building. The proportion of eaves is appropriate, the dome at the top is prominent, the height is ups and downs, and the layers are distinct.

The main facade of the building is located in the east, with three bronze doors, which are beautifully cast. Step by step from the main entrance and enter the business hall of the bank through the octagonal hall. The first to third floors were originally rented offices, with a zigzag plane, a big yard in the middle and an aisle in the middle. Offices are arranged on both sides of the aisle, and the plane of each floor is basically the same except for some differences. At the east end of the fourth floor are rented houses, and the rest are apartments. The floor of the central tower is an octagonal plane with two floors under the dome. The lower floor was originally a ballroom and the upper floor was a lounge.

The predecessor of Shanghai Pudong Development Bank is HSBC. 1874, HSBC bought a piece of land on the south side of Jiang Customs, and then built a three-story English classical building. Due to the rapid development of HSBC's business, the old building was demolished and a new HSBC building was built at 192 1. The building costs 8 million taels of silver and is called "the most exquisite building in the Far East from Suez Canal to Bering Strait".

1in the 1950s, HSBC moved out and became the office of the Shanghai Municipal People's Government with the office address of 1956- 1995. 1996, Shanghai Pudong Development Bank entered the building. In order to meet the functional requirements of modern banks, the building was completely restored, mainly including the architectural appearance, octagonal hall and business hall on the ground floor, restoring the functions of banks on the ground floor and the first floor, and updating the building equipment.

2. Building renovation 1998 Building renovation project is based on the principle of "respecting history, restoring the original appearance, improving functions, implementing laws and regulations, and making scientific decisions", and comprehensively renovating buildings and equipment with a history of more than 70 years.

External repair design

For the cleaning of granite walls of buildings, the method of "drug application and adsorption" is used to clean the dirt in granite, which avoids the loss and hidden dangers of traditional methods on stone walls. In order to coordinate with the overall style after the transformation, the bank abandoned the inherent corporate logo and adopted the bronze casting corporate logo with the same style and material as the building, which achieved a relatively coordinated effect.

The "Commemorative Nameplate for Building Completion" at the entrance has been repaired, mended and restored.

Internal maintenance and update

In order to safely and effectively peel off as many as four layers of putty paint on the surface of murals and avoid damaging mosaic murals, experts and old craftsmen adopted the construction technology and procedures of first painting and then shoveling, and repaired about 200 square meters of precious murals and more than 50 detached, cracked and damaged parts of murals.

The interior lighting of the building should not only meet the use function, but also maintain the historical context of the original building. Therefore, it is finally decided to continue the original layout of lamps and chandeliers, and completely transform the light source configuration and lamp structure.

This restoration design uses the basement space to arrange the air conditioning room and the return air duct system, and uses the original radiator wall cabinet and the return air outlet of the ground cabinet in the hall. At the same time, in combination with the business counters rearranged in the business hall, air return openings are set up, and a small number of high-speed air supply nozzles with small mouths are set up at the high part of the inner wall of the hall.

3. Business address: Zhongshan Dongyi Road 12.

Opening hours: 09: 00- 16: 00 from Monday to Sunday (the exterior of the building is open all day, and only business can be handled inside).

4, building perforated octagonal hall

There are eight Italian marble columns around the octagonal hall of this building. The cap and pedestal are inlaid with bronze leather. The copper skin pattern is exquisite, and the marble parquet floor pattern on the ground is complete and clear. The upper part of the octagonal hall is a dome ceiling, inlaid with colorful mosaics with the pattern of HSBC.

business hall

The business hall of the building is rectangular, surrounded by 28 marble-faced pillars in Onek style. In the center of the hall is an arched glass ceiling with a height of13.2m. There are two Onek-style decorative columns carved from a whole piece of marble at the north and south ends of the ceiling.

Foreign exchange business office

The foreign exchange business hall of the building was originally the China business hall, which entered and exited from No.40 Fuzhou Road. It is equipped with China chandeliers, and the walls and columns are made of marble. The decoration is simple and generous, with the traditional style of China.

Bronze lion at the main entrance of the building

As witnesses of history, a pair of bronze lions at the main entrance of the building have become an inseparable part of the building in the minds of Shanghai residents (here, they are replicas, and the original is hidden in the Shanghai History Museum).

5. Dongfeng Hotel (waldorf on the Bund), near the punch point.

Dongfeng Hotel, located at No.2 Zhongshan Dongyi Road, 1864 was officially completed. It is a European neoclassical steel beam column and brick-concrete structure building. The building basically adopts classical composition, but the tower at the top of the north and south end walls, the upper details and decorations are all baroque style.

Address: No.2 Dongyi Road, Zhongshan City

Opening hours: all day

Asia building

Asia building is square, calm, luxurious and elegant. Because its house number is Zhongshan Dongyi Road 1, and it is also the starting point of the southernmost Bund complex, it is called "Bund No.1 Building". Today, Asia Tower has become Jiushi International Art Center, a brand-new artistic landmark.

Address: Zhongshan Dongyi Road 1

Opening hours: adjusted according to the exhibition time.

6. The recommended tourist route is Asia Building → Dongfeng Hotel → Shanghai Pudong Development Bank Building → Customs Building → Waibaidu Bridge → Shanghai Post Museum.