EKA Tianwu Treasure Hotel Shanghai: Live in the Artistic Utopia of a Century-Old Bund Granary!

EKA Tianwu Treasure Hotel Shanghai: Live in the Artistic Utopia of a Century-Old Bund Granary! 🌾 Pushing open this rusted bronze door, I felt as if I had triggered a time-travel mechanism. Built in 1908, the Minsheng Granary has now transformed into the most hardcore industrial-style art museum hotel in Shanghai. The weathered concrete pillars carry the humid breath of the Huangpu River, and the elevator shaft still retains the original tracks used for transporting grain in the last century—this is not just a check-in, it’s like receiving a time capsule from a hundred years ago. 🛏️ The "Tiangong" suite we stayed in felt like being inside a contemporary art installation. In the 15-meter-high space, metal mesh clouds float, and Italian Flos lamps cast geometric light patterns on the rough walls. The most stunning feature is the wall facing the shower—completely preserving the grain storage records chalked by workers in the last century. When hot water steam rises, those blurred writings briefly reappear, and for a moment, you can almost hear the dockworkers’ chants blending with the modern shower’s drizzle. 🍽️ The rooftop restaurant hides the most rebellious "Granary Renovation Project"! The chef turns coarse grains like brown rice and buckwheat into fashionable molecular cuisine, strongly recommending the "Granary Afternoon Tea": mung bean mousse shaped like mini grain stacks, black sesame macarons stamped with granary numbers, and even the latte art is a simple crane sketch. Sitting on the terrace sipping coffee while watching the Lujiazui skyline, you suddenly understand what it means to "chew history with contemporary teeth." 🎨 The hotel itself is a giant art museum! The basement level hides the curator’s private collection of installation art. The piece called "Grain Universe," made from old burlap sacks and LED tubes, is soul-stirring. Every Saturday morning, artists lead tours, telling you that a rusty iron door in the corridor is actually a ready-made artwork by Xu Zhen, and the "Caution: Slippery Floor" sign in the elevator was specially created by Qiu Anxiong—here, even fire hydrants might be art pieces. 💡 Three magical moments you must experience: 1️⃣ At 7 a.m., sunlight streams through the silo skylight, casting golden wheat ear patterns on the walls 2️⃣ Holding meetings in the conference room that retains the grain chute (the projector is installed on an old bucket elevator) 3️⃣ Ordering a "Rice Fragrance Sour" cocktail in the late-night lounge, where the bartender uses dry ice to recreate the granary’s misty insect-repellent fog effect 🛎️ Butler service details that impress: • Night turndown service brings peach gum stew served in an enamel pot • The minibar uses tin grain scoops for snacks, and when restocking, the attendant says, "Let me stock you up with some more grain" • Noticing we glanced twice at the old-fashioned thermometer in the corridor, we received the same style as a cultural souvenir upon checkout 📸 Photo tips for great shots: √ Wear camel tones and take silhouette photos in front of the silo elevator √ The spiral staircase in the atrium looks like a giant wheat ear cross-section from above √ Let the projector cast pages from the ancient book "Tiangong Kaiwu" onto your face 💬 Real experience notes: Bringing my parents, they praised it as "cultured," but the many stairs are definitely tiring; the deliberately preserved concrete texture in the room can stain light-colored clothes; art tours must be booked three days in advance; the legendary SPA room converted from the granary manager’s lounge really has a faint scent of rice grains...