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183 Jiaozhou Road
Shanghai
China
200040
Tel: 86 21 5153 4600
Serene little URBN is a hotel with lofty environmental ambitions, implementing eco-friendly elements such as solar shades and water-based A/C, and allowing patrons to buy carbon credits. Two blocks from Nanjing Road, this former warehouse has been creatively renovated with reclaimed materials such as the stack of 1930s leather suitcases that forms the wall behind reception. The 26 Zen-like rooms, each adorned with a single orchid, come with a huge bed and a sunken living area whose large windows overlook the hotel's bamboo grove and the weathered rooftops of an old lane. A bank of glass doors opens onto a courtyard that holds the lively restaurant, Roomtwentyeight. The effect of all this is rather like being in a familiar and beloved art museum café. Indeed, URBN's patrons tend to be the clad-in-black art and fashion set. Eager-to-please staff create an atmosphere far more relaxed than at the rest of the city's growing league of high-end small hotels.
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