Aiqun Hotel

Aiqun Hotel | ©wyliepoon/Flickr
As a three-star hotel located in Yuexiu district that opened in 1937, Aiqun Hotel has been dubbed the ‘hotel champion of North China’. The 15-storey hotel was once appraised to have initiated a new epoch in high-rise architecture in China, as Aiqun was the first building in China to imitate the design of 1930-style modern skyscrapers in New York and construct a building with concrete on a steel framework. The designer of Aiqun took reference from the Woolworth Building, the first skyscraper in New York. Aiqun boasts its neo-Gothic design that is blended with the horticulture characteristics of gardens in the south of the Five Ridges.