Bank of Communications Building

The building was designed in a modern Art-Deco style, combined with Chinese elements, by Hungarian architect C. H.

[1] It is an eight-story concrete-frame structure, framed by black marble around the doors.

The building is now occupied by the offices of the Shanghai Federation of Trade Unions.

[2] The first European buildings on the site were constructed in 1880,[citation needed] after several German banks joined with a local Chinese businessman to form the Deutsch-Asiatische Bank.

After the Japanese surrendered in 1945 the bank returned, and completed its construction of the current building in 1948.

The China Bank of Communications Building was the last building completed on the Bund before the founding of the People's Republic.