Worms Eye View des Paramount Halle in Shanghai, China, 15. Januar 2013. Shanghai plant, die Paramount Hall, ein Symbol der kolonialen Vergangenheit zu drehen, ich
Worms eye view of the Paramount Hall in Shanghai, China, 15 January 2013. Shanghai plans to turn the Paramount Hall, an icon of its colonial past, into a modern jazz theater, officials said. Internationally eminent architect Ieoh Ming Pei and Hong Kong designer Alan Chan will be invited to design the Paramount Jz Center, a Jingan District Cultural Bureau official said. The 80-year-old building on Yuyuan Road near the Jingan Temple will be restored to its original grandeur and every design detail will be kept intact. If the Lincoln Center in New York City is called the center of Western jazz, then the renovated Paramount in Shanghai will be the center of Eastern jazz, said Chen Chao, deputy director of Shanghai Library who is in charge of Paramounts restoration. Apart from being a dance hall, visitors can also watch movies and enjoy a cabaret show, according to the plan. Built in 1933, the Art Deco building was the biggest entertainment venue in Shanghai in those days and a popular haunt for the rich and famous, such as Chinese poet Xu Zhimo and warlord Zhang Xueliang. Claire Chennault, commander of the Flying Tigers, and his fiancee Chen Xiangmei held their engagement ceremony there.
