Maintaining a tradition begun with the historic
HSBC Building across the
Huangpu River on
the Bund, the front of the north tower features a pair of bronze lions, the fourth pair of copies of the original which once graced the bank's old Shanghai headquarters. The original lions are now held by the Shanghai Historic Museum (which has no permanent home) and are separately on display at the museum's display room under the
Oriental Pearl Tower and the Shanghai Banking Museum, both nearby in Lujiazui. The Shanghai IFC copies were cast from the copies outside
HSBC's Hong Kong headquarters; the other two copies (outside
HSBC's global headquarters in London and the historic
HSBC Building in Shanghai) were cast from the Hong Kong copies and Shanghai originals respectively. ==Gallery==