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Park Hotel (), once the tallest building in Asia from 1934 to 1958, is a famous hotel on Nanjing Road West overlooking People's Park in Shanghai, China. ==History== The Shanghai Joint Savings Society Building, known today as the Park Hotel or in Chinese as the International Hotel (国际饭店), located at No. 170 West Nanjing Road, was named after the bank founded in 1923 by the merger of Yienyieh Commercial Bank, Kincheng Banking corporation, the China and South Sea Bank, and the Continental Bank. The JSS Building was designed in March 1931 and completed in December 1934. The building is 83.8-metres high and contains 22 stories above ground and another 2 stories underground. Built by Voh Kee Construction Company, the piling project was finished by a Danish Company established by Corrit.〔(Joint Savings Society Building )〕 Built in 1934, a prime example of Art Deco architecture designed by the Slovak-Hungarian architect László Hudec.〔 It was built by the Joint Savings Society as a competitor for the Cathay Hotel. Strongly inspired by the American Radiator Building, it is most well known building from Hudec in Shanghai. It was the tallest building in Asia at 22 floors / 84 m (275 ft) until 1952. It remained the tallest building in China until 1966, and in Shanghai until 1983. On February 23, 1938, G.H. Thomas wrote: "I stayed at the Park Hotel on Bubbling Well Road, where I had a great room and bath. The appointments, the bath and the service are just like in any first-class hotel in New York. A single room such as mine costs $8 a day without food."〔G.H. Thomas, in (Old China )〕 It was built overlooking the horse racing course owned by The Shanghai Race Club one of the most prestigious locations in Shanghai at the time. The Shanghai Race Course and the Shanghai Recreation Ground that it enclosed was turned into People's Park by the PRC government. Originally the Park Hotel accommodated the Joint Savings Society Bank in its lower two floors, and the hotel on the upper floors.〔Warr, Anne: ''Shanghai Architecture'', The Watermark Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-949284-76-1〕 In 1997 the building was refitted by American architect George Grigorian.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Park Hotel Shanghai」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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