Positioned at Pudong's tip, the Oriental PearlTower was a cartoonish totem for China's race into modernity and an emphatic counterpoint to the Bund, a strip of colonial-era buildings on the opposite Puxi bank of the Huangpu River.
Look for cameos of the The British School of Falconry at The Equinox, a Mother of Pearl pool at The Phoenician and an iconic pink beach tower at The Royal Hawaiian.