Stepped tiers
Brown brick.
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A nineteen-storey Art Deco building near the meeting of Suzhou Creek and the Huangpu at the north end of the Bund, completed in 1934 to designs by Palmer and Turner. On completion it was the tallest apartment building in Shanghai, and remained so for decades; it was the city's closest approach to a modern American skyscraper. Its brown-brick mass steps back in tiers as it rises, and for more than fifty years it was one of the main symbols of Shanghai. Renamed Shanghai Mansions in 1951, it later took back its original name, and today it is a hotel said to command one of the best views of the Bund and the Huangpu. The building can be seen free from Waibaidu Bridge and the Bund promenade, and it photographs best rising behind the steel bridge at sunset.
Brown brick.
The classic shot.
At the Bund.
20 North Suzhou Road, Hongkou District, Shanghai
Waibaidu Bridge (Garden Bridge)A steel bridge at the mouth of Suzhou Creek, close to where it meets the Huangpu2 minutes walk
Rockbund (Waitanyuan)A historic quarter at the north end of Shanghai's Bund, where Suzhou Creek meets3 minutes walk
Suzhou CreekA river crossing central Shanghai, also called the Wusong River and named after 5 minutes walk
Shanghai Postal MuseumA museum inside the General Post Office Building on the north bank of Suzhou Cre5 minutes walk
Peace HotelA historic hotel on the Bund where it meets Nanjing Road, in two buildings. The 7 minutes walkIt is a working hotel, so it is usually admired from outside, from Waibaidu Bridge and the Bund promenade; shooting it from the bridge at sunset is a classic old-Shanghai photo.