Shanghai Centre () is located on West Nanjing Road,

Jing'an District Jing'an District () is one of the central districts of Shanghai. In 2020, it had 975,707 inhabitants in an area of . The district borders the Hongkou, Shanghai, Hongkou to the east, Huangpu, Shanghai, Huangpu to the east and south, Putuo, Shangh ...

Shanghai Shanghai, Shanghainese: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: is a direct-administered municipality and the most populous urban area in China. The city is located on the Chinese shoreline on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the ...

. It is a comprehensive building complex consisting of three towers rising from an eight-

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base. Designed by

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, the Shanghai Centre was one of the first contemporary skyscrapers to be built in Shanghai. It occupies a prestige location, across West

Nanjing Road Nanjing Road (; Shanghainese: ''Noecin Lu'') is a road in Shanghai, the eastern part of which is the main shopping district of Shanghai. It is one of the world's busiest shopping streets, along with Fifth Avenue, Oxford Street, Orchard Road, T ...

from the Russian neo-classical style

Shanghai Exhibition Centre The Shanghai Exhibition Centre ( zh, c=上海展览中心, p=Shànghǎi Zhǎnlǎn Zhōngxīn) or the Shanghai Exhibition Hall ( zh, c=上海展览馆, p=Shànghǎi Zhǎnlǎn Guǎn''; Shanghainese'': Zånhae Zuelae Gue) is an exhibition and conve ...

complex, with whose central axis the Shanghai Centre's central axis is aligned. The whole complex hosts 472 apartment units, 30,000 sq. meters of high-end office area, a supermarket, three stories of luxury department stores, the Shanghai Centre Theatre, a Trading Exhibition Centre, and a 5-star hotel ( The Portman Ritz Carlton Shanghai, named after the architect). The complex opened in April, 1990, and it consists of three towers and several accessory buildings. The eight-storey pedestal building fronts onto West Nanjing Road. The building's frontage is not aligned with the street: in order to align the central axis with that of the Shanghai Exhibition Centre on the other side of West Nanjing Road (the main frontage of which in turn faces, and therefore is aligned with,

Yan'an Road Yan'an Road ( zh, c=延安路, ; Shanghainese: ) is a road in Shanghai, a major east–west thoroughfare through the centre of the city. The modern Yan'an Road is in three sections, reflecting three connected streets which existed pre-1945: Ave ...

), the Shanghai Centre was built at an angle to West Nanjing Road. The three towers are arranged symmetrically "rising" out of the pedestal: one at the centre and towards the back, and two symmetrically to the left and right, further to the front. The three towers have similar profiles, with a memorable feature being a slight widening of the long side of each tower towards the top, giving each tower a profile reminiscent of traditional Chinese monumental stelae or

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The building also hosts a number of foreign consulates or their delegate offices, including

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, the

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and the

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. The Consulate-General of the United States in Shanghai has some satellite offices in the Shanghai Centre. At one point

Northwest Airlines Northwest Airlines (often abbreviated as NWA) was a major airline in the United States that operated from 1926 until it Delta Air Lines–Northwest Airlines merger, merged with Delta Air Lines in 2010. The merger made Delta the largest airline ...

operated a ticket office in Suite 207.

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, which merged with Northwest, moved the ticket office to the Kerry Centre. At one time

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set its Shanghai sales office in Suite 808 of Shanghai Centre.ANA Directory

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