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HSBC Building

The HSBC Building, at No. 12 on the Bund, is a six-storey Neoclassical building built between 1921 and 1923 by the Palmer & Turner practice for the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation. Its granite façade features Ionic columns, a central dome and a three-part division. Inside, the main lobby retains four single-block marble columns and a domed ceiling with mosaics depicting eight cities where HSBC had branches, restored in 1997 after being covered for decades. At the entrance, two bronze lions (replicas of the 1923 originals, now in the Shanghai Museum) flank the steps. It now houses the headquarters of the Shanghai Pudong Development Bank, but its value as a historic and artistic monument makes it a notable stop on the Bund.

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