World Expo 2010 left Shanghai with prime riverfront land and infrastructure. This route shows how those assets are being transformed into a major cultural and ecological park anchored by the new Shanghai Opera House and surrounding mixed uses. The tour highlights landscape-led planning, integration of cultural venues with everyday public space, and how a global event site can become a long-term city asset.

Registration for this tour will open in April.

Walk through one of Shanghai’s fastest-rising CBDs where a new cluster of supertalls meets a fully opened-up waterfront. From Raffles City North Bund to the riverfront promenade, this tour showcases how vertical mixed-use towers, public open space, and transit links are being woven together into a next-generation financial district facing Lujiazui across the water.

Registration for this tour will open in April.

Registration for this tour will open in April.

Stroll the Bund at dusk and watch a century of Shanghai unfold. This gentle walk highlights the Bund’s iconic Art Deco and early 20th-century architecture, paired with city stories and photo moments along the Huangpu River. Hosted by AIA.

Registration for this experience will open in April.

Crystal Bridge is a new mixed-use landmark in Shanghai’s Changning District, developed by Tishman Speyer with Xinchangning Group and Mitsubishi Estate. The 250,000-square-metre complex features five Grade-A office towers and a lifestyle retail podium, linked by skybridges, rooftop gardens, and an outdoor amphitheatre to form a three-dimensional “garden workplace.” Sitting directly atop the Line 2 and 15 metro interchange and connecting to the Hongqiao hub, it is emerging as a key business gateway and everyday destination in west Shanghai.

Registration for this tour will open in April.

Positioned as Shanghai’s ‘2.5 CBD’, Qiantan is planned around wellness, lifestyle, and public space as much as commerce. Through a masterplan briefing and visits to Qiantan Taikoo Li and Crystal Plaza, delegates will see how offices, retail streets, housing, parks, and the riverfront are woven into a dense yet human-scaled district with a strong emphasis on everyday well-being.

Registration for this tour will open in April.