China - Shanghai - More Buildings, and Bridges
Looking down from Shanghai Tower to a few much smaller skyscrapers.
On the far riverbank left is the "Bund", an area of preserved early 20th century colonial buildings; see below.
Closer view from Shanghai Tower of the early 20th
century colonial buildings known as the Bund, and
surrounds.
The Shanghai Bund, lining the Huangpu River, has dozens of historical
buildings that once housed numerous banks and trading houses from the United
Kingdom, France,
the United States, Italy, Russia, Germany, Japan,
the Netherlands,
and Belgium,
as well as the consulates of
Russia and
Britain, a newspaper, the Shanghai Club and
the Masonic Club.
On the left river front is the Observation or Signal Tower originally
built in 1884 and replaced in 1907, see below. Just behind and to the
right of the tower is the Asiatic Building built in 1916; then, moving
right, is the Shanghai Club, built in 1910. The building with the turret
is the Union Insurance building, built in 1922. On the right hand river
front is the former Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank building (see below).
The tall building middle left, with the flowery top, is the
198m Bund Center, completed in 2002.
(Western end river front of the Bund)
Eastern end river front of the Bund
Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank building (on the left), and the Shanghai Custom House Building (both early 20th century colonial buildings in the Bund, Shanghai).The former building now houses the Shanghai Pudong Development Bank.
Sino-Soviet Friendship Building - at 110 m to the star it was the tallest building in Shanghai from 1955 to 1988.
It is now called the Exhibition Building, while since 1988 there have been 150 buildings built in Shanghai over 150 m tall.
Looking south from the Shanghai Tower: middle right residential districts;
and in the background, 2 of the bridges across the Huangpu River can be seen (close ups below).
The Nanpu cable-stayed bridge across the Huangpu River, Shanghai
The Nanpu cable-stayed bridge across the Huangpu River, Shanghai
The Lupu steel arch bridge across the Huangpu River, Shanghai;
(long distance view from the Shanghai Tower)
Looking NNE from the Shanghai tower: 2nd highest and 3rd highest buildings in Shanghai (the World Financial Center with the hole and the Jin Mao Tower). In the murky distance can just be made out one of the longest bridges of its type, the Yangpu cable-stayed bridge with its red towers (sister to the Nanpu bridge).
To the right are residential districts - close-ups below.
Inner Residential District, Shanghai
Inner Residential District, Shanghai
1933 AD Heritage Building, Hongkou district, Shanghai, China.
A brilliantly designed unique slaughterhouse by British architects Balfours, it was rescued from years of abandonment in 1998, and is now home to a number of small innovative businesses, and a must-see tourist attraction.
1933 AD slaughterhouse, Hongkou district, Shanghai, China
In a city of 24 million people, there are also many high-rise apartment buildings, some old, some new
