Clean-up for Bund treasure

Scaffolding is seen around the dome of the 90-year-old Shanghai Pudong Development Bank, or the No. 12 building on the Bund, yesterday. A three-month cleaning and repair program is under way.

The white, neoclassical edifice was the Bund's tallest building until surpassed by Sassoon House and Customs House in the late 1920s. The building, once headquarters of the HSBC bank, was known as the most luxurious building between the Suez Canal and the Bering Strait after its completion in 1923. At 23,415 square meters, it was then the second-largest building in the world, after a Bank of Scotland building in the UK.

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