Ben Wood is a modern day renaissance man: a former fighter pilot now on a mission to bring the joys of flying light aircraft to China; a long term bar owner who claims to do the best Martini in Shanghai, he will always be best known as the architect behind the city’s entertainment enclave Xintiandi. Design runs through his veins and into the Nehru collared shirt he wears for the interview, another of his creations.

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