Forty-five floors above the low-rise lanes of Shanghai's Jing An district, a slender tower crowned with a luminous teal cupola rises above its neighbours with the quiet authority of a building that knows exactly what it is. The St. Regis Shanghai Jing An, which opened in 2018, fills the upper floors of this mixed-use tower with 161 rooms and suites, each positioned high enough to draw the full panorama of the city — on clear days, the Pudong skyline with its trio of landmark towers fills the floor-to-ceiling glazing like a painted backdrop. The interiors work a familiar St. Regis register — padded leather headboards in warm champagne tones, hand-tufted carpets with faint Art Deco patterning, silk throw cushions in teal and amber that echo the building's illuminated crown — but the bar lifts the formula somewhere more interesting. Deep teal walls, a gilded coffered ceiling with pendant globe lights, and a horseshoe arrangement of oxblood Chesterfield sofas give the cocktail lounge the atmosphere of a 1930s Shanghai salon, framed paintings adding a layer of collected personality that most hotel bars never achieve. The indoor pool, lined in veined marble and flanked by classical sculptures, borrows its proportions from a European bathhouse and floods with natural light through a glazed ceiling — an unexpected counterpoint to the tower's vertical ambitions above.

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