Shanghai's first bars opened at Heng Shan Road in the early 20th century, and they remain more popular than those elsewhere. Close to Xujiahui, the street has the reputation of a high end uptown with elegant surroundings. A wide variety of bars ranging from the brash to more intimate and quiet abound to suit visitors.
The 1.5 mile long Heng Shan Road was built in 1922. Half a century has left at Heng Shan Road a number of historical architecture and humanistic sights with exotic appeal. With the growing prosperity of Xujiahui Commercial City, Heng Shan Road, as a branch street of the commercial center and with its unique foreign environmental feature attracted a great number of overseas personages and returned students from abroad to invest in projects while bringing along new concept of the operation of catering and recreational business.
Our client would like to propagate such uptown, hip, luxurious life style in the neighborhood. This fostered the idea of a boutique hotel operation in join venture with the Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group. Constrained by the set back requirement and building height, the 5-storey hotel accommodates 170 guestrooms, soaring not more than 60 feet from street level. All other amenities such as health club, lounge, restaurant, meeting rooms, back-of-house, and garage are planned in two separate basement floors. A 50 feet tall featured granite stone wall acts as an element holding all floors together. Granite stones also serve as a principle facade materials.
