Architecture: "Between old and new"

THE WATERHOUSE AT SOUTH BUND - SHANGHAI

I visited this hotel during my last trip to Shanghai, and today i found this interesting comment on Phaidon.com :

"NHDRO's project The Waterhouse, on the South Bund in Shanghai, China, was praised for its 19-room hotel remodelled from a derelict 1930s building. Jury member Gurjit Singh Matharoo said: 'What they have done is to leave old as it is: rough and dirty...So there’s a beautiful contrast created, and by just leaving it, it enhances both the old and the new.' Slessor adds: 'NHDRO's remodelling of an existing building in Shanghai's docklands into a new boutique hotel is an intelligent paradigm for the creative reuse of historic structures, which has a wider and hopefully instructive resonance in China's current expansionist milieù."

And here are some of the pictures i took there...