The following areas to be introduced, some of you are familiar, some of you may never heard of. For the Bund building, there are several floors is worthwhile to look into the.
Asia Tower, The Bund Zhongshan Dong Yi Road No. 1, is now mainly used unit: China Pacific Insurance Company is headquartered in the mouth of Zhong Shan Dong Yi Yan An Road East Asia Building, known as the "Bund first floor", so called first, because it is located along the Bund in Shandong Province 1, 2 because it was built in 1916, high-seven-story, building an area of 10000, the Bund was the tallest of a building. Asia Tower, look for the eclectic style, is the baroque-style facade, the main entrance there are four Ionic columns, left the two inside doors have a small Ionic columns, semi-circular door on the top of the coupons, carved in order to pattern. Population Office has baroque-style decoration, the building again in 1939, increasing the height of a layer. Asia doors on both sides of the building columns, the two Shell companies hold the original column (ie arc) bronze, when the company had to leave the building together with demolition of the office floor at his Summer Palace is as historical artifacts, hidden in Shanghai History Museum .
Commercial Bank of China building Bund Zhongshan Dong Yi Road 76, also known as Yuan-Fang building.
Commercial Bank of China was founded in 1897, is China's first bank. The first building in 1898 (Guangxu twenty-three years) completed, the building now was built in 1906, is the Bund complex than earlier in the construction of a building. The building of brick-wood structure, the following three are complete, the top layer of fact, similar to the roof with dormer windows to open the practice, except to say half-layer, so some people say this building as a "pseudo-four-storey." However, architectural forms, though it seems a complete composition, style uniform. As construction of the upper part of a sharp triangular roof decoration (a senior small), they were considered to be "Gothic" architecture. But it's the lower part of the lack of Gothic architecture symbols, so it can at best be described as "Gothic Revival" was also said to be "eclecticism" building. The building's Gothic style is incomplete, mainly in the following three levels, including the roof included, three horizontal lines is very strong, vertical lines weak, it should be said to be away from the Gothic-style and almost Renaissance-style (The two styles are mutually exclusive). However, it has been very co-ordination on the composition is indeed commendable.
Shanghai Jardine Matheson Building (also known as: Foreign Trade Building)
Bund, Zhong Shan Dong Yi 27. Now use the units: Shanghai Foreign Trade Bureau.
The first to enter one of Shanghai's three foreign Matheson: English Jardine Matheson, the English name is called Jardine Matheson and Company. The last century, around 80 years, Jardine Matheson, not only in Shanghai, even in the world have enjoyed, "Matheson of the King" laudatory. To 1861, Jardine Matheson in Shanghai is the third turned build housing, in situ reconstruction of an East Indian-style architecture. 1920 Matheson turned again made by the MA Ocean Xingsi 9 Health Design, Chinese merchants Yuchang Thailand Matheson construction, high-six-layer, covers an area of 2100 square meters, construction area of 14.3 thousand square meters, completed in November 1922. Kang Linte shape for the new classical style, reinforced concrete frame structure. Of the whole block wall built with granite Lei Qi, one, two-story granite rough chisel, Shanghai's early popularity of the practice of building construction. Door entrance with stone steps, Bao Cu door, looked solid doors on both sides of a pair of wall lamp. Three to five layers of the central branded with four marble Corinthian columns, column capitals at the end of a four-square. Between columns and the stone railing for the balcony. On the second floor of the Central sheep's head decorated with stone carvings. Sixth floor, wide eaves, it looked like five layers. The bottom of both the internal walls and floors paved with marble.
Xu, Lu Xiaoman Residence Foch Road, (now Yan'an Road) four-Ming Village, No. 923.
"I have to look during the day, and night prayer, and dreams lingering, and usually fascinating - the only love of success, it is life's success." Hsu Chih-mo as the love of his life, he thoroughly for Lu Xiaoman the heart of love as the heart of all his life. Although this before Xiaoman yes there Luo Fu-fu, he is Shijun are women. Ran lovers finally Chengjuan Zhu.
PS: I personally think that Xu is a more talented, and his work was also recently begun to read. Lu Xiaoman is a talented woman, is grown very beautiful. She never leave the country abroad, but fluent in French, English and other languages, of course, does not stop there. Although both of them get married, but Lu Xiaoman the extravagance of life led to the premature death of Hsu Chih-mo. Personally, I prefer to attach some of Xu's poem.
1. You and I meet on the night of the sea, you have yours, and I have my direction; you remember'd be better you forget, in this intersection when the light in each place.
2. I want you to love there is purity steel like a strong flow of health in the years since making a wall; left to autumn Chuijin filled with yellow leaves, left to draw thousands of termites rotten walls; on so that one day Charlie Chen turned the universe, but also shock does not turn you I love the freedom wall!
3. The most is the bow of the tender which, like a lotus numerous cool water, the modesty, the Dow soon as treasure, Road soon as treasure, that treasure soon as there are sweet sorrow - Sha Young Nala!
East weeds Church today Pudong Chuansha chengxiangzhen Lanfen Church 74 get 1 1 8. Township taipingcun Chuansha town, there's a place Huang Yanpei childhood reading - East weeds Church. From 9 years old, the Huang Yanpei grandfather set up in the "East Hall weeds," a private school where to study, live in houses that he called "the first in history", which is an ancient residential group, from the Qing dynasty years of the Cabinet Tongzhi book Toneri SHEN Shu-Yong construction. Interestingly, when Huang Yanpei students, now over 100-year-old Cui Yanbing talked about a little-known anecdotes. At that time, Huang Yanpei and the Pudong College Council have for the school to the National Ban Cheng-class secondary schools and open universities, find ways to raise funds. At that time, the school founder Youngs Sheng life savings in the late, lamented before the 1O million donated to the Fund for the school. Huang Yan-pei, who will use this loan to others, to invest in the development Ussuri River and the northern Jiangsu exploit it. However, one of these two utilities failed. How can force the borrower to repay debt. Resulted in Pudong Middle School large sum of money funds go down the drain. So great shock caused by the school. The direction of the school to prosecute the borrower, Huang Yanpei for their involvement with the case has become a "defendant"; young Della Cuiyan Bing is a party as a student representative to join the plaintiffs. For a time, teachers and students of thin Gong Tang, becoming a "deep-seated antagonists." "In fact, Mr. Huang is eager to raise funds in the final analysis, or for society, vocational education ah!" Cui Yanbing old emotion he said. October 18, 1991, the CPC Central Committee Propaganda Department formally approved the establishment of the Chuansha Huang Yanpei house, and plastic Huang Yanpei like.
Azusa Park, a former residence of Wang Lao Chengxiang QIAO Jia Ting Road 113, "Catalpa Garden." Calligraphy and painting circles and collection professionals who do not know the sea of fresh school of painting masters, Wang Yi-ting persons, but few people still know the name Park, was once the sea-ting Wang, a former residence of "Catalpa Park" has. Wang Yi-ting's masterpiece has often appear at auction, "Azusa Garden" can be any one piece?
Marble House - Kadoorie Garden (now the Children's Palace Building)
Kadoorie owner of the garden was originally a British Jew Ely. Kadoorie, 1926, he was organizing charity (founded in Shanghai Yucai Engineering, now the Sir Ellis Kadoorie Secondary School; contributions to the first one was founded Shanghai hospital treatment of tuberculosis), King Jazz titles conferred on him. Kadoorie family that year, when the construction of new homes, because there are events left temporarily in Shanghai, will be built regarding the commissioned designer Graham. Brown. But I do not know Graham is a well-known drunk, often after drinking brandy full of great drawings express sentiments, the result that for the 45 people living in houses resulted in a marble palace. When the Kadoorie a home, the face of the huge bills sent by the construction contractor was stunned surprise, and she drunk designer, is lying in hospital, waiting for the ambulance. But this, after all, a huge luxury of beautiful buildings, construction of the marble used in all shipped from Italy, after charges of 100 million taels of silver, when to buy five more than 10 million kilograms of rice, a total of 14 million people eat for 1 year. Its cost of expensive, over Kazakhstan with the Garden (Kazakhstan with the cost of 70 million taels Garden silver). This is the only one marble building on the beach.
Author: lianglucia