Building sights in Shànghǎi
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Shanghai Exhibition Centre
The hulking great monolith of the Shanghai Exhibition Centre can be seen from West Nanjing Rd. It was built as the Palace of Sino-Soviet Friendship, a friendship that soon turned to ideological rivalry and even the brink of war in the 1960s. Architectural buffs will appreciate its monumentality and unsubtle, bold Bolshevik strokes – there was a time when Pǔdōng was set to look like this. The site of the Exhibition Centre was originally the gardens of the Jewish millionaire Silas Hardoon.
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Shanghai Children’s Palace
A striking white, two-storey 1920s building, this was formerly Kadoorie House, named after its wealthy Jewish owner. Architecture detectives can still peek in the rooms of Elly Kadoorie’s 1920s mansion, once the site of Shanghai’s most extravagant balls. It now hosts after-school activities for kids.
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Dajing Pavilion
Dating from 1815, this pavilion is attached to the sole preserved (and restored) section of the Old Town wall, which was toppled in 1912. On the ground floor is a Chinese-language exhibition of the Old Town and you can climb the battlements.
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