Buildings On The Bund (Waitan), Shanghai (6)

Block Seven

No. 16 – Bank of Taiwan Building | 台湾银行大楼 (上海)

Built in 1927.

Past: Bank of Taiwan (founded in 1899 by the Bank of Taiwan to promote trade between Taiwan, the Japanese Empire, and the rest of Asia; purchased the building from HSBC)

Now: China Merchants Bank

In-between: 中国农民银行（台湾），市工艺品进出口公司（改名工艺大楼）

No. 17 – North China Daily News Building | 字林大楼

Rebuilt and opened in in 1924.

Past: The North China Daily News, first English-language newspaper to be published in Shanghai

Now: AIA Group, a subsidiary of American International Group

In-between: American Asiatic Underwriters (forerunner of AIG), Tairiku Shimpō (大陆新报, a Japanese newspaper), various Chinese government offices

No. 18 – Chartered Bank Building | 渣打（麦加利）银行大楼

Built in 1923

Past: Standard Chartered Bank

Now: high-end restaurants including Hakkasan, Mr & Mrs Bund, L’ATELIER de Joël Robuchon, Ultraviolet by Paul Pairet (three-Michelin-stars), Ginza Onodera

In-between: 房管局（改名春江大楼），上海家用纺织品进出口公司，上海市机电设备总公司, Chipolbrok chinese-polish shipping company (the oldest Chinese deep-sea shipowner and the first enterprise with foreign capital in the P.R.C)，上海水产总公司