With the Bund offering a showcase of the world's great architecture styles, representing art deco is the Bank of Communications Building with its classic geometric facade dating from 1948.
Bank of Communications Building
The Bund & People's Square
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Nearby The Bund & People's Square attractions
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The neoclassical Custom House, established at this site in 1857 and rebuilt in 1927, is one of the most important buildings on the Bund. Capping it is Big…
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3. North China Daily News Building
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The former building of Shanghai-based English newspaper North China Daily, this 1921 neoclassical building is notable for its top-level Atlas art-nouveau…
4. Hongkong & Shanghai Bank Building
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Adjacent to the Custom House, the Hongkong & Shanghai Bank Building was constructed in 1923. The bank was first established in Hong Kong in 1864 and in…
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This intriguing little museum, in essence a long room stuffed with period objects and photos relating to the colourful history of the Peace Hotel, is an…
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Originally established in 1897, the Bank of China relocated its headquarters from Beijing to Shanghai in the 1920s. Although the bank has occupied this…
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One of several buildings along the Bund designed by British architecture firm Palmer & Turner, the Yokohama Specie Bank was built in 1924 mixing…
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