Plans have now been agreed with English Heritage to refurbish the 300-year-old building in its original style.

BBC: Fire-damaged Croxteth Hall to be restored

One of the clearest examples of the Shanghai Deco style is the old Bank of China headquarters building next to the Peace Hotel on the Bund.

WSJ: Touring Asia's Art Deco Gems in Shanghai and Napier, New Zealand

Several departments emblematic of old-style central planning, such as coal and machine-building, have been subsumed under a new "super-ministry, " the State Economic and Trade Commission.

CNN: A New, Slimmer Government