Shanghai News - Iconic Shanghai Peace Hotel Reopens

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SHANGHAI News : One of Shanghai’s most iconic buildings, the Peace Hotel, has reopened.

The Peace Hotel is a hotel on The Bund in Shanghai, China which overlooks the Huangpu River. The hotel today operates as two separate businesses. The North Building, built as Sassoon House, originally housed the Cathay Hotel and is today the Fairmont Peace Hotel. The South Building was built as the Palace Hotel and is today the Swatch Art Peace Hotel . The two buildings both face the Bund, but are divided by the famous Nanjing Road, arguably Shanghai News as the busiest street in Shanghai.

After three years and US$64 million, the city’s famous Peace Hotel — now known as the Fairmont Peace Hotel — is now ready to welcome guests.

Fairmont Peace Hotel general manager Kamal Naamani said the intention behind the hotel’s restoration was not so much of a physical change. The newly refurbished hotel will also house the Peace Hotel Museum where visitors can learn more about the hotel’s unique and colourful history through the treasures on display and its good Shanghai News.

And the next Shanghai News returning to bring back a taste of swinging Shanghai is the original Peace Hotel Jazz band plus a new contemporary jazz ensemble.

The art-deco hotel residence known in the 1929 as Cathay Hotel was among the most famous landmarks in the world.