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URBN Boutique Shanghai
Shanghai, China · URBN · Near Luxury
China's first carbon-neutral hotel is 26 rooms in a 1970s prosthetics factory that later served as a post office, at 183 Jiaozhou Road in Jing'an. Jules Kwan and Scott Barrack of Space Development converted it with the Shanghai-based Canadian architects A00, keeping reclaimed Shanghai brick and old hardwood in the factory shell. Jing'an Temple is a short walk, the house runs four floors, two of the keys are suites, and the penthouse looks over the small garden the factory yard became.
- 26 rooms
- Opened 2008
- Neighborhood: Jing'An
- Architect: A00 Architecture
About URBN Boutique Shanghai
- Jules Kwan said the carbon-neutral title was not a prize they chased. It followed from keeping the old building, with reclaimed brick, old hardwood, passive shades, and water-based cooling.
- The house is four floors. Two of the 26 keys are suites, and the penthouse looks over the small garden the factory yard became.
- Before this hotel, Barrack and Kwan had already reused more than twenty old houses and industrial buildings around Shanghai. The 26-room factory was their first hotel.
History
URBN Boutique Shanghai, still the URBN hotel at 183 Jiaozhou Road, Jing'an, opened at the start of 2008 in a 1970s prosthetics factory that had later been a post office. Scott Barrack and Jules Kwan of Space Development developed it. A00, Shanghai-based Canadian architects, did the conversion. Indesign and the opening press called it China's first carbon-neutral hotel. A later Wikipedia note names Robert Roche as owner and mentions the Cachet Hotel Group.
The setting
183 Jiaozhou Road, Jing'an, a short walk from Jing'an Temple and close enough to the old French Concession that the opening press sold the walk. The door is a low factory building.
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