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This list of outstanding historic buildings of Shanghai (Chinese: 上海市优秀历史建筑; pinyin: shànghǎi shì yōuxiù lìshǐ jiànzhú) is a list encompassing 'Outstanding Historical Buildings' of Shanghai, China, nominated by the Shanghai Municipal People's Government starting from 1989. There are currently 5 batches of buildings ...
Haipai culture, the root of Shanghai city, came from the 1920s and 1930s. Before colonization (1843), Shanghai culture was mainly influenced and shaped by the ancient kingdoms of Wu and Yue (districts of now Jiangsu and Zhejiang Provinces). Following the defeat of China in the First Opium War by the British Empire, several ports were opened to ...
The heyday of the "new type" shikumen was in the 1920s. From the 1930s they were replaced by newer building types, including newer types of lilong residences, as well as larger modern apartment buildings, before the civil war and the Second Sino-Japanese War completely disrupted the property market in Shanghai.
In three years, Shanghai’s foreign population almost doubled, from 36,500 in 1930 to 70,000 in 1933. Architects abandoned the Beaux-Arts styles of earlier decades and whole-heartedly embraced Art Deco and Modernism. ... During this period, clashing concepts of nationalism, imperialism and internationalism were
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Luo Xiao Wei (Chinese: 罗小未; September 10, 1925 - June 8, 2020) was a Chinese architect. started her education at the St. John's University in Shanghai where she graduated in 1948 as an architecture major.
The five buildings were built in 1933 during the Republic of China period. [2] Property managers say that they comprise 32,500 square meters, [3] described by the Atlas Obscura travel guide as "an eerie Gotham-Deco achievement in concrete, glass, and steel, and the last remaining of its design in the world."
Institut Pasteur of Shanghai (formerly Musee Heude), Shanghai, 1930 Jiangwan Sports Center (stadium, natatorium), Shanghai, 1934 Jinjiang Hotel (former Cathay Mansion, 1929 and Grosvenor House, 1934), Shanghai