What are the famous buildings in Shanghai?

Peace Hotel

The Peace Hotel was built in 1929, formerly known as the Chinachem Hotel. It is a Chicago School Gothic building with a height of 77 meters and a maximum of 12 floors. The exterior walls are made of granite stones, and you enter through the revolving hall door. The lobby floor is paved with milky white Italian marble, and the top bronze engraved chandelier is luxurious and elegant. It has the reputation of "the first floor in the Far East". ?After liberation, the hotel reopened in 1956 and was named Peace Hotel. In recent years, the Peace Hotel has renovated its guest rooms, restaurants, etc., but the architectural style still maintains the appearance of the year. The entire building integrates modernity and tradition, trendy and retro.

Plaza 66

As the "Golden Triangle" on Nanjing West Road alongside CITIC Pacific and Westgate Plaza, Hang Lung has not only become a gathering place for top international brands in Shanghai, but more importantly Yes, they prefer personalized products, and the real trend of Shanghai’s high-end fashion can be seen here.

No. 18 on the Bund

No. 18 was formerly the Standard Chartered Bank. This 1,500-square-meter building is built near the water and mixes classicism, neoclassicism, baroque and syncretism. style. Even 80 years later, No. 18’s simple lines and elegant appearance still exude the pride of that era. In November 2004, Bund 18 opened and became a new cultural and fashionable landmark. The operator positioned himself as a creative space called "Bund18 Creative". After re-planning, No. 18 on the Bund has not only attracted many high-end consumer goods, but also has world-class brands and high-end restaurants such as Cartier and Ermenegildo Zegna. It also often holds many exhibitions, fashion shows, or forums. ?

Oriental Art Center

Shanghai Oriental Art Center was designed by the famous French architect Paul-André. The entire building exterior is made of metal laminated glass curtain wall, and the interior walls are decorated with special light yellow and ocher red colors. , brown and gray ceramic pendants.

As a masterpiece of post-modern architectural concepts, the entire design embodies the most avant-garde and culturally significant style in the world today—returning to nature. Appreciating music and art in such an environment is a truly edifying enjoyment. As "Shanghai's latest high-end art launch venue", the Oriental Art Center attracts many fashionable people.

M50 (No. 50 Moganshan Road)

M50 is one of the first batch of "Shanghai Creative Industry Parks" awarded by the Shanghai Municipal Economic Commission. It is also planned by the Shanghai Municipal Government as the Shanghai Creative Industry Park. One of the 11 characteristic cultural blocks, the old mottled and abandoned warehouse has finally shed its Cinderella veil and become an authoritative gathering place for China's creative and cultural industries. It currently brings together more than 80 art groups, creative design companies and artist studios from different countries. It is the most tasteful, large-scale and influential art center in Shanghai, and has been named "Shanghai Fashion Landmark" by the American "Times" magazine is listed as a "recommended place to visit", and its reputation is on par with Soho in New York and the Left Bank of the Seine in France. ?

Xintiandi

Xintiandi is based on the old Shikumen building area, a symbol of modern Shanghai architecture. For the first time, it changed the original residential function of Shikumen and gave it a commercial function. , transforming this old house that reflects the history and culture of Shanghai into a fashion, leisure, cultural and entertainment center integrating international-level dining, shopping, performing arts and other functions. The exterior of Xintiandi’s Shikumen complex retains the original brick walls and roof tiles, while the interior of each building is tailor-made according to the lifestyle, rhythm of life, and emotional world of modern urbanites, all reflecting modern leisure life. atmosphere. Walking around Xintiandi feels like stepping back in time, like being in Shanghai in the 1920s and 1930s, but stepping inside each building is very modern.

Shanghai Drama Center

Although watching dramas is still a very niche hobby, the Shanghai Drama Center has continuously introduced original foreign plays and produced excellent contemporary dramas. The center has cultivated Launched the drama performance market in Shanghai. Nowadays, the drama performances on Anfu Road are a unique scenery in Shanghai. Going to Anfu Road to watch dramas has become a fashionable culture, a way of life, and even a habit among contemporary Shanghai youth.

Shanghai Drama Center has become a large-scale national performing arts troupe with a complete range of art professionals, advanced performance hardware and facilities, and assets of more than 120 million yuan.

Shanghai Dramatic Art Center also often carries out various forms of cooperation and exchange visits with artists from Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States, France, Australia, Russia, Singapore, South Korea and other countries. Some excellent plays such as "Home" , "Tokyo Moon", "The Joy Luck Club", "OK, Stock", "The Left Behind Lady", "Shang Yang", etc. were also invited to perform in Japan, Singapore, Germany, South Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan, and won cultural and artistic awards at home and abroad. highly praised by the industry.

Shanghai Art Museum

This was once the horse racing club of the old Shanghai Shili Yangchang. The expansion project of the new museum completely retains the original neoclassical appearance of this British-style building. It was transformed according to the functional requirements of the art museum. The interior design inherits the traditional European language and emphasizes the bright modern atmosphere. Looking up at the solemn beams and columns in the museum, then climbing up the spacious stairs, stroking the bronze horse heads from the 1930s, and browsing the exquisite works of artists, you will definitely appreciate the historical changes of old and new Shanghai and feel fascinating cultural charm. As an important business card of Shanghai culture, the Shanghai Art Museum also hosts fashion events and provides an important stage for various avant-garde experimental arts.

Park97

The Italian-style Baci Restaurant, Japanese-style Tokio Joe Restaurant and Cali-fornia Club are three popular dining and entertainment restaurants from Lan Kwai Fong Catering Group Company in Hong Kong. Places make up Park97.

Whether you are enjoying a glass of wine in front of the bar, enjoying a cup of afternoon coffee on the sofa, or having an exquisite modern Italian-style dinner... Baci Restaurant with Italian cooking style can do it all. All this is provided to you.

The Paramount Ballroom

The appearance of the Paramount adopts the modern avant-garde ArtDeco architectural style of the United States. It was a trendy building in China and even the world in the 1930s. It was popular all over Shanghai. The main social gathering place for Shanghai’s socialites and gentlemen.

After entering the 21st century, Paramount, which has gone through more than seventy years of ups and downs, has undergone restorative reconstruction. It has not only restored its former graceful style, but also incorporated more modern fashion elements, attracting People who are nostalgic or fashionable come here, setting off a trend of fashion and leisure intertwined with retro and modern in Shanghai. It can be said that "the elegance is restored, still better than before".