Construction cranes are familiar sights across Shanghai but even set against this city’s frantic pace of development, the plans for its prestigious waterfront are ambitious.
The Bund is a strip of 19th- and early 20th-century grand banking offices and wharves lining the western bank of the Huangpu river, directly opposite the ultra-modern skyscrapers of Shanghai’s Pudong financial quarter.
Although one of Shanghai’s oldest surviving addresses – many of the Bund’s buildings were created by Britain and America 120 years ago and became trading houses and consulates – the area deteriorated under Mao Zedong and a motorway separated it from the water.
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