The Vandals of Shanghai are Back at Work – & Trying to be Stealthy About their Destruction

And so goodbye to another old Shanghai building – The Ezra Building (1930), just back off the Bund (take note all those who say the Bund is safe!) – they tried to do this demolition by stealth but got found out anyway. As others have said the trend to bulldoze a building and then claim it as a heritage site is one of the most disgusting aspects of the ongoing total destruction of old Shanghai – in the last twelve months major destruction in Hongkou, Yangpu, Beijing Lu, Kangding Lu, the broad swathe of Laoximen and Huangpi/Hefei Lu in Frenchtown to name but a few….tragic….and, yes, the building has a historic preservation plaque awarded in 2015 in case

Katya Knyazeva has the story they tried to hide…click here