“Bund 18 is the essential way to experience both the old and the new Shanghai.” On the crossroad of Nanjing East Road on the Bund, there stands the building of Bund18, as the former headquarter of the Standard Chartered in China which was built in 1923. After the two-year renovation which began in 2002 and lasted more than two years, Bund18 has opened a new page of the Bund at the end of 2004. Following the winning of the Palace Museum renovation project, Bund18 has been honored the Award of Excellence in the 2006 UNESCO Asia-Pacific Heritage Awards for Culture Heritage Conservation. Anyone who enters into the building will feel the new and old parts homogeneity, the Bund18 renovation project had adopted a new construction mode that all the new designed ideas were based on keeping the original style. In line with the original style, the new elements give new functions and vitality to this unique building. While going through the bronze copper door of Bund18 which has been called the “Most Beautiful Copper Door” along the Bund, entering the elegant atrium, checking out the ancient Greek style marble pillars which stand majestically and silently on both sides, you will find out that everything’s combined the last century’s heritage and today’s modern renovation techniques. The luxury boutiques, high-end restaurants, bars and the unique art gallery, make Bund18 the remarkable landmark of Shanghai.