- Heaven is up in the clouds as everyone knows and so is Jade on 36. It floats 36 stories above Pudong, the new prime business area of Shanghai on the east bank of the Huangpu River, where skyscrapers grow faster than daisies, each new building more amazing than the last.
Jade on 36 commands dream-like views over to the opposite bank, across to the Bund, a river-side boulevard of early twentieth-century architectural splendour now dwarfed by the twenty-first century surge of Shanghai. Huge neon lights glow as night falls with the silvery sheen of the river still busy with barges and other vessels providing the perfect foil. Sometimes, when mist rolls in and swathes the city in a milky, mysterious veil, it all seems to be under an enchanted spell.