1.Tianma Hill
Height: 98.2 m above sea level
The vast majority of Shanghai's land area is flat. On land, this is the highest point .
Location: Songjiang District
2.The peak of Dajinshan Island
Height: 103.4 m
It is the highest point within Shanghai municipality.
Location:Hangzhou Bay
3.The Dharani Column Building
A remaining height: 9.3 m
From the Tang Dynasty in Songjiang.
It is the oldest stone carved architecture in Shanghai.
Location:In a school on East Zhongshan Road, Songjiang District.
4.The Qinglong Pagoda
Remaining height: about 30 m
Built in the Northern Song Dynasty during 821-824, lies at the former site of Qinglong Town, which witnessed the booming foreign trade in the Jiangnan region during the Tang and Song dynasties.
Location:Qinglong Village, Baihe Town, Qingpu District
5.The Longhua Pagoda
Height: 40.64 m
Said to be first erected in the period of the Three Kingdoms and rebuilt in the North Song Dynasty, was one of the major landmarks of Shanghai.
Location:2872 Longhua Road, Xuhui District
6. The City Wall of Shanghai County
Height: nearly 8 meters in height now, remains about 50 m long with the Dajing Pavilion
Location: 257 Dajing Road (near Renmin Road), Huangpu District
7.Shikumen Lilong
Height: ranges from 10 – 11 m
Jixiang Li, built before 1876, was one of the earliest Lilong that survived till today. It represents Shanghai’s residential architecture of the 20th century.
Location:Lane 531, Middle Henan Road (near Ningbo Road), Huangpu District
8. Yangshupu Water Works
Height:29m
The first modern Chinese water supply and purification plant, was established in Shanghai in 1883.The remaining chimney was built in 1928.
Location: 830 Yangshupu Road (near Xuchang Road), Yangpu District
9.The Gutzlaff Signal Tower
Height: 49.8 m
It was originally erected in 1884, as the first signal tower in Shanghai to provide weather information, in particular typhoon warnings. It was rebuilt in 1908.
Location: No.2 East Zhongshan Road & East Yan’an Road, Huangpu District.
10. Sincere Department Store
Height: nearly 60 m
Opened in 1917, it was the first global department store founded by Chinese. It was also the first one to have amusement facilities on the roof terrace, the first to hire female shop assistants and the first one to set labelled prices.
Location:690 East Nanjing Road , near Middle Zhejiang Road, Huangpu District
11.North China Daily News building
Height:40.2 m
It was one of the earliest English newspapers published in Shanghai. In 1924, the North China Daily News Building was built and was then the tallest building on the Bund.
Location: 17 No.1 East Zhongshan Road, near Jiujiang Road, Huangpu District
12.The Great World Amusement Arcade
Height:55.3m
It was nationwide well-known amusement arcade. The original two – story building was built in 1917.It was reconstructed in 1924, topped with a tower.
Location:1 South Xizang Road, near East Yan’an Road, Huangpu District
13.The General Post Office
Height:51.6 m
It was built in 1924 on the Suzhou Creek and was China’s earliest post office building.
Location:276 North Suzhou Road (near North Sichuan Road), Hongkou District
14.The Customs House
Height:70 m
It was built in 1927 and its most noted feature is the clock tower and clock. The clock tower offers views over the entire Bund and Shanghai city centre. It has four faces, each made up of more than 100 pieces of glass The music, when the clock is striking, resonates across the Huangpu River.
Location: 13 No.1 East Zhongshan Road, near Hankou Road, Huangpu District
15.Fairmont Peace Hotel – former Sassoon House
Height:77 m
Completed in 1928, it is the highest historical building of the Bund. It was built by Sir Victor Sassoon, of the Sassoon family, which built a Shanghai business and real estate empire in the early 20th century (click the link below this post – we told you the story of this gentleman a while ago).
Location:20 No.1 East Zhongshan Road, near East Nanjing Road, Huangpu District
16.Park Hotel
Height:83.8 m
Built in 1934, held the record of the highest building in Shanghai for almost 50 years.
The former Shanghai Joint Savings Society Building, was named after the Joint Savings Society, founded in 1923 by the merger of Yienyieh Commercial Bank, Kincheng Banking corporation, the China and South Sea Bank, and the Continental Bank. It was built as a competitor for the Cathay Hotel. The building was designed by the man who changed Shanghai - László Hudec.
Location: 170 West Nanjing Road, near Huanghe Road, Huangpu District
17. The Broadway Mansions
Height: 76.7 meters
Built in 1934 and at the northern end of the Waibaidu Bridge (Garden Bridge), was Shanghai’s popular landmark.
For over five decades one of the primary symbols of Shanghai. Completed in 1934, the same year as the 19 feet taller Park Hotel. Upon its completion it became the tallest apartment building in Shanghai and remained so for several decades. Its completion in 1935 signaled the commencement of the high-rise building era in Asia.
Location: 20 North Suzhou Road, near Changzhi Road, Hongkou District
18.Shanghai Municipal Library
Height:25 meters
Built in 1935, was one of the projects of the Greater Shanghai Plan launched by the Shanghai Special City Government.
Location: 181 Heishan Road , near Zhengli Road,Yangpu District
19.The Sun Department Store
Height: 42.3 m
Built in 1936, was famous nationwide and was the first department store to install escalators in Shanghai!
Location:830 East Nanjing Road, near Middle Xizang Road, Huangpu District
20. Bank of China Building
Height: 69 m
Built in 1937.The only building designed by a Chinese person among the Bund historical architecture complex.
Location: 23 No.1 East Zhongshan Road, near Dianchi Road
21. Caoyang New Estate
Height:11 – 12 m
Built in 1952, New China’s first residential district for the workers.
Location: Lanxi Road, near Huaxi Road, Putuo District
22.Sino – Soviet Friendship Building
Height: 110.4 m
Built in 1955 to commemorate the alliance between China and the Soviet Union, a name by which many locals still refer to the building. Reflecting its original name, the design draws heavily on Russian and Empire style neoclassical architecture with Stalinist neoclassical innovations.
Location:1000 Middle Yan’an Road (near Weihai Road), Jing’an District
23.Shanghai Television Tower
Height: 210 m
Location: Qinghai Road (near West Nanjing Road), Jing’an District
24. Xuhui New Estate
Location: 750- 1000 North Caoxi Road (near Yude Road), Xuhui District
25.Huangpujiang Bridge
Height:50m
In coordination with the construction of a petrochemical factory in Shanghai, the first road-rail bridge over the Huangpu River was completed in 1976.
Location:Cheting Highway (near Chedun Town), Songjiang District
26.St Ignatius Cathedral
Height: 56.6 m high,
Built in 1910, it is the largest cathedral in Shanghai.
Designed by English architect William Doyle, and built by French Jesuits between 1906 and 1910, it is said to have once been known as "the grandest church in the Far East." It can accommodate 2,500 worshippers at the same time.
The cathedral was featured in the opening scenes of Steven Spielberg's 1987 film 'Empire of the Sun'. Although in fact it is not the cathedral in the original book 'Empire of the Sun' by J.G. Ballard, who attended the school at the Anglican Holy Trinity Church in Shanghai.
27.Shiliupu Passenger Station
Height: 42.3m
In 1928, Shiliupu Passenger Station was re-constructed at the old site of Shiliupu Port, which witnessed the history of Shanghai over 100 years.
The name 'shi liu' means '16' in Chinese. The one of the parlances is there were sixteen ports situated along the Xiaodongmen which was the main street along the coastline. The authentic parlance by historian is that “pu” is the local name here, the town was separated as twenty pu, and the port was located at the sixteenth pu in the town. So it was called Shiliupu.
Location: Along No.2 East Zhongshan Road, Huangpu District
28.Shanghai Hotel
Height: 90.5
It was the first building whose height surpassed Park Hotel and was completed in 1983.
29.The Union Friendship Tower
Height: 106.5 m
Built in 1985, it's Shanghai’s first building that reached over 100 m.
Location: 250 Huashan Road, Jing’an District
30. East China Electric Power Tower
Height: 125.5 m
It was completed in 1988 and its distinctive style was then the focus of the public.
31.Former Jing’an Hilton - now Kunlun Hotel
Height:143.6 m
Shanghai’s first five -star hotel completed in 1988.
32.Shanghai Centre
Height:167m
It was one of the very first contemporary skyscrapers to be built in Shanghai.
Location: 1376 West Nanjing Road (near Xikang Road), Jing’an District
33.Yangpu Bridge
Location: Songpan Road, Yangpu District
34.The Oriental Pearl Radio & TV Tower
Height: 468 m
The Landmark of Shanghai in the new era. It was the tallest structure in China from 1994–2007, when it was surpassed by the Shanghai World Financial Center.
Location: 1 Century Avenue, Lujiazui, Pudong
35.Jin Mao Tower
Height: 420m
Completed in 1998, its design draws on the traditional pagoda. One of the tallest buildings in the world. It contains a shopping mall, offices and the Grand Hyatt Shanghai hotel, which at the time of completion was the highest hotel in the world.
Location:88 Century Avenue, Pudong New Area
36.Shanghai World Financial Center
Height:492 m
Completed in 2008. It is a mixed-use skyscraper, consisting of offices, hotels, conference rooms, observation decks, and ground-floor shopping malls. Park Hyatt Shanghai is the tower's hotel component and it is now the third-highest hotel in the world after the Ritz-Carlton, Hong Kong.
The original design specified a circular aperture, 46 m in diameter, to reduce the stresses of wind pressure and to reference the Chinese mythological depiction of the sky as a circle.It also resembled a Chinese moon gate due to its circular form in Chinese architecture. However, this initial design began facing protests from some Chinese, including the mayor of Shanghai, Chen Liangyu, who considered it too similar to the rising sun design of the Japanese flag. The leading architect – Kohn Pedersen Fox - then suggested that a bridge be placed at the bottom of the aperture to make it less circular.
Location:100 Century Avenue, Pudong New Area
37.Shanghai Tower
Height:632 m
The apex of Shanghai architecture, completed in 2015.
It has the world's highest observation deck within a building or structure (level 121, 561.25 m), and the world's fastest elevators at a top speed of 20.5 metres per second (74 km/h; 46 mph). It is the world's second-tallest building by height to architectural top.
The Shanghai Tower incorporates numerous green architecture elements; its owners received certifications from the China Green Building Committee and the U.S. Green Building Council for the building's sustainable design. In 2013, a spokesman for its design company Gensler described the tower as "the greenest super high-rise building on earth at this point in time". The building is designed to capture rainwater for internal use, and to recycle a portion of its wastewater.
Location:501 Middle Yincheng Road, Pudong New Area
Information sources
'Shanghai Height' by Jiang Qing
shanghaiguide.org
Wikipedia