Visiting The Bund, Shanghai after 6+ years
Monday, November 19th, 2007
Good Year is on the sky in Shanghai Bund, who else?
Two flying fishes！Who is on the ground?
Banks！
I haven’t visited Shanghai Bund for more than 6 years after I graduated in 2001 until yesterday. My parents-in-law are visiting us and we wanted to walk around the city in weekend. The bund obviously is our first choice of sightseeing. The weather wasn’t perfect, windy, cloudy and chilly, especially by the Huangpu River.
Things have been changed so much: Jinmao Tower is no longer the most visible building in Pudong from the Bund; Chartered Bank Building was redesigned and renovated by a team of international architects led by Italian designer Filippo Gabbiani, and was reopened in Nov. 2004. It is now no longer a bank; one of the Big Four nation-owned banks China Bank of Communications moved out of the Bund, but the other 3 (BoC, ABC, ICBC) of Big Four are still on the Bund. Wikipedia page didn’t catch these changes.
China Citic Bank
Take a real virtual tour on the Bund to see all the buidlings here:
http://shgov.city8.com/sh10951_BA1H-0.833_0.206_1.309.swf
You wil need to install Flash 9 in order to take this grand tour developed by a Chinese map company city8.com
Grigo