Former industrial sites given imaginative new lease of life
By Shi Jing and Yu Ran in Shanghai | China Daily | Updated: 2013-06-14 07:40
A dancer performs at the 1933 Creative Park in Shanghai. The local government plans to build the cosmopolitan city into a creative hub servicing the industrial heartland of the Yangtze River Delta region. Provided to China Daily |
Despite efforts to liven up its gray concrete structure with colorful lights and attractive signs, the old abattoir in downtown Shanghai, renamed 1933 in memory of a bygone age, remains an eerie place, with a chill draft blowing through the premises.
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