04. June 2021

Bank of Communications on the Bund No. 14. The modern Art-Deco style building, combined with Chinese elements, was designed by Austro-Hungarian architect C. H. Gonda. Construction was interrupted in 1937 because of the Second Sino-Japanese War and it was only completed by 1948 making if the last classic building to be erected on the Shanghai Bund. The Bank of Communications was founded in 1908 and emerged as one of the first few major national and note-issuing banks in the early days of the...

24. April 2021

The building of the former Shanghai Chamber of Commerce on Soochow Rd. & Honan Rd. Completed in 1916, renovated in 2018 & now managed by Bvlgari Hotels