Grand Banks Boutique Restaurant, Shanghai Commercial Interior, Chinese Architecture Project, Images
Grand Banks Boutique Restaurant in Shanghai
10 Aug 2021
Architects: Chris Shao Studio LLC
Location: Shanghai, China

Grand Banks Boutique Restaurant
Standing in front of the restored Brunner Mond Building, the ethereal and distant vision of transitioning away from the abstract became concrete. This is our stage, where a prologue to the new story of Grand Banks is presented.

In 1921, Brunner Mond, a foreign bank engaged in the soap business, bought the land on the south side intersection of Sichuan, and Fuzhou Road. This land later became the headquarters of Brunner Mond in China. The Building was created in a neoclassical style, with characteristic three horizontal columns in its facade. These columns along with the bronze cast iron gate, imitation stone facade, French windows, and lost sculpture of Atlanta, all pay homage to the golden age of Shanghai, when East encountered West.
Since then, the former foreign bank has changed owners and undergone many rounds of repair and renovation giving us today?s Brunner Building, completed in 2019. By continually referencing the building?s archives and images of different historical periods, the two-year project aimed to revitalize the historical building, enhancing its overall appearance through repairing and restoring damaged carvings in accordance with the heritage regulations of minimum intervention, reversibility and integrity.
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