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Shanghai Eye’s neighbour has made the local news, to be filed in the you learn something new everyday department. According to this the strangley named Club 508, used to be the house of Empire of the sun author J.G. Ballard. You can read all about it here, where Shanghaiist interviews Ballard fan Rick McGrath.

“McGrath took a last look down Xinhua Lu and recalled the famous scene from the book: the Japanese tanks rolling past the lane on their way in from the Hongqiao airfield.”

If he took a look now he probably also spotted a soon-to-open City Shopper, a Starbucks, a couple of bakeries and various other eateries. Truly we live in a new golden age.

In sort of related news he would have seen, if he walked a bit further ot the Pingwu Road, Fanyu Road intersection z58. Z58 is a new headquarters building designed for Chinese lighting specialists Zhongtai by acclaimed Japanese architect Kengo Kuma in the heart of Shangahi.

In other news, there is this video of some artists and directors getting busted…less said about that the better.

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