1. Tucked away off the Bund in Shanghai lies the Swatch Art Peace Hotel, a gallery space-meets-hotel that not only holds countless works of art, but also the artists themselves.. Roughly three ...

Restoration of Shanghai's parade of landmark buildings – the Bund – passes a key milestone this week as the famed Peace Hotel throws open its doors. When it was completed in 1929, tycoon ...

And then suddenly, with the outbreak of war, the party was over at the Peace Hotel. There is no other landmark in Shanghai so closely associated with the city’s storied history. The hotel’s ...

At the height of Shanghai’s hedonistic heyday in the 1930s, the Bund was the city’s most fashionable address and the Cathay Hotel its glamorous epicenter. Opened in 1929 by real estate magnate ...

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In 1956, the hotel was nationalized and renamed the Peace Hotel. It only accommodated guests invited by state-owned organizations during the planned economy period before 1978.

The former Palace Hotel fronting Shanghai's Bund waterfront is one of the city's oldest ... Behind the russet-and-white Victorian Renaissance façade, the Swatch Art Peace Hotel is a bold reinvention.