Scenic spots around Shanghai Customs Building

Known as "the first floor of the Bund", Asia Building was built in 1906, formerly known as Mai Bo En Building. The building is eight stories high, with a building area of 1 1984 square meters and an area of 1739 square meters. The appearance of this building is eclectic.

Oriental London-Dongfeng Hotel "Oriental London" is another name for Dongfeng Hotel now. Built in 19 10, it belongs to Renaissance architecture. Its appearance not only imitates American classicism, but also refers to the Japanese Empire State Building, hence its nickname.

Woori Mansion, No.4, Zhongshan East 1st Road, is now Tong Jia Private Investment Co., Ltd., formerly known as union buildings, owned by Beneficial Bank of America, so it is called Beneficial Bank Mansion. The building was completed in 19 16, and the 7-story building imitates the Renaissance architectural style.

Nissin Mansion, which combines eastern and western architecture with classical architecture, is called "Japanese Jewish style". The building was jointly built by Japan Qingdao Shipping Co., Ltd. and Jews. Built at 1925, located at No.5, Dongyi Road, Zhongshan. The building is 6 stories high and covers an area of 1280 square meters. The following three floors are relatively simple to decorate, and the upper three floors have classical columns and carved flowers, which have a strong sense of concavity and convexity.

China Commercial Bank Building, No.6 Zhongshan Dongyi Road, 1897, China Commercial Bank, the first bank established by China people with their own funds, is now the location of Hong Kong Qiaofu International Enterprise Co., Ltd. This building is a pseudo-four-story Gothic building.

Zhongshan East Road 10- 12 Shanghai Pudong Development Bank Building (formerly Shanghai People's Government Building and HSBC Building) is a neo-Greek building, which was built in 1923 and originally belonged to HSBC Shanghai Branch. At that time, the United States boasted that this building was the most exquisite building in the Far East from the Suez Canal to the Bering Strait.

Zhongshan Dongyi Road/KOOC-0/4 Bank of Communications Building, built in/KOOC-0/940, covers an area of/KOOC-0/908 m2, and has a building area of/KOOC-0/0088 m2. It belongs to the modernist style.

The Sino-Russian Dawson Bank Building is a Renaissance-style building, which has gone through more than 80 years. Kuomintang Central Bank, Shanghai Space Agency and China Foreign Exchange Trading Center have all worked here successively.

Taiwan Bank Building is now the location of China Merchants Bank Shanghai Branch. The building was built in 1924, covering an area of 904 square meters. On the whole, it belongs to the modern Japanese western architectural style.

AIA Mansion (formerly Guilin Mansion and Yu Zi Mansion) was once the largest news and publishing organization in Shanghai-Zilin Xibaoge. AIA Company was officially renovated on 1998, so it was renamed "AIA Building".

The South Building of Peace Hotel (formerly Zhonghui Hotel) strolls along the Bund. There is a clear white brick wall, and the building with red brick waist line is particularly eye-catching. This American-style Liuzeng Building is the south building of Peace Hotel, located at No.1 Zhongshan East Road 19, formerly known as the Central Hotel. This hotel built in 1906 has far-reaching historical significance. 1909, the World Anti-Smoking Conference was held here; 1996, the Shanghai International Doping Conference jointly organized by UNDCP was held, and the site of the World Anti-Smoking Conference was marked. 19 1 1 year, the headquarters of China United League also held a welcome meeting for Sun Yat-sen as interim president in this hotel. This series of unforgettable historical facts adds more luster to the South Building of Peace Hotel.

The North Building of Peace Hotel (formerly Sassoon Building) is scattered in the north and south floors of Peace Hotel. Compared with the South Building, the North Building feels magnificent and luxurious. This 77-square-meter-high building is known as "the first building in the Far East" because of its exquisite interior and exterior decoration. The building has the architectural style of Chicago school in the United States, with simple and clear modeling and emphasis on vertical sense. Granite walls, conical roofs and copper roofs are permeated with simple and elegant atmosphere. Inside the hotel, there are nine suites in Britain, America, India, Germany, France, America, Japan, Spain and China. The dining room and lobby are richly decorated. There is also the Shanghai Old Jazz Band, which is very popular among foreign tourists, playing famous songs from all over the world, making people feel as if they are in a palace where world culture and classic art blend.

The Bund of Bank of China Building is famous for its European style, and Bank of China Building is one of the few buildings with China national characteristics. The building is divided into the main building and the auxiliary building. The exterior wall is Jinshan stone, and the roof is a flat square pyramid roof, covered with green glazed tiles and decorated with a bucket arch on the eaves. Coin-shaped hollow window frame with high to low deformation in the east facade. The original stone carving of Confucius traveling around the world above the gate tells a fascinating story. The ceiling of the business hall was originally carved with the pattern of "Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea". There is an antique atmosphere everywhere. At the same time, these carved beams and painted buildings and pipa flying eaves are also the crystallization of Chinese wisdom and hard work, which can be inherited and carried forward by future generations.

At the intersection of Zhongshan East Road in beijing east road, there is a seemingly ordinary but interesting building, Yitai Post Building, which is the Green Post Building. This is a typical Renaissance style building.

Zheng Jin Mansion, built in 1924, has a unique post-Renaissance style. Like other Renaissance buildings, it has granite exterior walls, clear main lines and symmetrical shapes, but it lacks many complicated decorations to make it smoother. The ground floor of this building is made of large stones. The whole building gives a sense of stability. The second to fifth floors are supported by two Onek-style columns, showing the classical style. The rectangular glass ceiling in the inner hall is a typical building on the Bund, with elegant shape and exquisite workmanship.

Since the opening of 1943 Shanghai Yihe foreign firm building, foreign businessmen have set up foreign firms one after another, and Yihe foreign firm is the earliest group. Since then, British businessmen have carried out a lot of trade activities here. Yihe foreign firm building, located at No.27, Zhongshan East 1st Road, is a Renaissance-style building.

Oriental Building, now the traffic office building of the Municipal Public Security Bureau, was originally the office of Shanghai Branch of Credit Suisse Oriental Company. Designers use luxurious and grandiose handwriting to integrate architecture, sculpture and painting in churches and palaces, and create a mysterious religious atmosphere in buildings with short eaves, wavy walls, overlapping columns and murals. Architecture emphasizes facade decoration and treatment, especially the proportion of the building itself. Above it is a huge pillar of love Onek, with thick walls on both sides horizontally divided into three sections, and a deep eaves at the top, beautifully carved. The doors and windows on the first floor form three tall stair doors with a linear relief in the middle. In addition, the small structure of the building is also exquisitely carved and refined, which can be described as a baroque classic.

The British Consulate was built in 1873. The building is two stories high, similar to the Renaissance style. The foundation of this building is very high. There are five arched windows in the vertical middle section of the ground floor, but the windows in both rooms are arched. The fa? ade is neat and changeable. The facade of the whole building was originally made of fair-faced bricks, and the roof was paved with China butterfly tiles. Now that the exterior wall has been painted with cement, there is a large lawn in front of the East Building, and the environment is more beautiful. After liberation, China International Travel Service Shanghai Branch is located here. After the authorities moved out, Shanghai Foreign Investment Working Committee, Shanghai International Economic and Trade Research Institute, Shanghai Center for International Studies and other institutions were all located here.

Waibaidu Bridge is located on the Suzhou River between Zhongshan Dongyi Road and Dongdaming Road on the west side of Huangpu Park. Built in 1970, it is the first steel structure bridge in Shanghai, with a span of 52.16m and a width of18.3m.. It is an important channel connecting Shanghai downtown and Hudong, with a large traffic volume. Because it is a foreigner crossing, people don't pay for crossing the bridge, so it is called Waibaidu Bridge.

Shanghai Mansion Shanghai Mansion is located on the north side of Waibaidu Bridge and consists of the main building and the auxiliary building. This is a splayed apartment structure in early modernist style. The exterior treatment and interior decoration are simple and clear, and the appearance is magnificent. The main building was originally named "Baiyaojiang Building". The annex building is also called Pujiang Hotel. Now it's a three-star hotel. The hotel has superior suites with Chinese, American, British, French, Japanese and Arab characteristics, and has received many heads of state and Chinese and foreign tourists.

Russian Consulate General is located on the north side of Waibaidu Bridge, at the intersection of Suzhou River and Huangpu River. The building was built in 19 16, with an area of 1700 square meters and a building area of 3,264 square meters. It has four floors and an attic. The lower part is placed underground, and the ground is 2 meters high. There are classical double columns on both sides of the gate, circular arch and flat arch window frames on the second and third floors, and pilasters between the windows. The roof has two folds and four slopes, curved pointed windows, two-story watchtower on the west side of the roof, green iron dome, embankment along the river and hexagonal pavilion on the east side, which can enjoy the scenery at the intersection of Huangpu River and Suzhou River.

The weather signal station is one of the landmark buildings on the Bund, and it is listed as a national key protected building. 1884, the Xujiahui Observatory founded by the French Catholic Church set up a meteorological signal station on the Bund of Pidgin (now the Bund of Yan 'an East Road). The signal station is a long wooden pole erected on the ground. According to the meteorological information from the Observatory, a cylindrical meteorological signal was reconstructed at 1907. The platform system is 50 meters high and the tower is 36.8 meters high, which is called "Atangpo" building. In order to protect this building, in the renovation project of 1993, the Bund moved 20 meters eastward.