Some cool business in china images:
Peace Hotel, Bank of China
Image by Canadian Pacific
(LEFT)
No. 20, the Bund, originally Sasson House, including the Cathay Hotel. It's been the Peace Hotel since 1956.
Built 1929 by the famous Sassoon family who dominated Shanghai business and real estate in the early 20th Century. He was a British Sephardic Jew of Iraqi origin, and his family had extensive business in Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Calcutta. Sassoon House later housed the Cathay Hotel and since 1956, the Peace Hotel. It was, and still is today, internationally famous for its jazz band in its cafe.
www.chinese-architecture.info/BUND/SH-BU-012.htm
(RIGHT)
No. 23, the Bund. Built 1936 as the head office of the Bank of China. An interesting Art Deco building with Chinese elements. It resembles the Bank of China Hong Kong branch's head office in Hong Kong. (Photo to come).
www.chinese-architecture.info/BUND/SH-BU-016.htm
