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This exterior of this 1930s era townhouse in Shanghai isn’t anything you’d think twice about. The inside, however, which has sliding wall partitions, a double height living room and a bamboo courtyard, is decidedly less historic. More »
Traveling at 415km/h, Shanghai’s latest bullet train has smashed the previous record held by the country last year, by 21km/h. It services the Shanghai to Hangzhou route, which are about 202km apart. More »
My aunt in Vancouver shared a wise Chinese adage recently: “If you don’t go to the Shanghai Expo, you will regret it. If you go to the Shanghai Expo, you will regret it even more.” More »
Take a quick look around the offices of Bartle Bogle Hegarty, and you might think you missed your plane to Shanghai. Rooms ripped straight from a meticulous English household offer a respite for the homesick, and commentary on Shanghai’s boom. More »
Chinese Apple fan club members have a new meeting place to talk about Apple in, with the Shanghai Apple Store opening this weekend. Fanatics descend from street level through a 40-foot cylinder, then serenely glide in via a glass staircase. More »
Looking like an English hedgehog with over 60,000 7.5m-long transparent acrylic rods shooting out of the building, the United Kingdom Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo is costing the equivalent of $US38.6 million to construct. More »
