ARCHIVE № 001 An illustrated field guide to Shanghai
Wander through the Bund, Wukang Road, and Yuyuan Road. Discover the eras, people, and stories behind each façade—and build a Shanghai archive of your own.
№ 024 · 1924
A CITY, READ ONE FACADE AT A TIME
ABOUT · THE ARCHIVE
This is not a navigation tool or another checklist of sights. Shanghai Architecture Archive turns the bricks, balconies, and street corners around us into a field guide you can read, wander through, and make your own. Every stop is a new way into the city.
EXPERIENCE · HOW IT WORKS
Find a building on the map, read its archive, then follow a curated chapter that connects scattered places into a richer urban story.
Explore the Bund, Wukang Road, and Yuyuan Road through a quiet native map designed around architecture—not distractions.
Move from a one-minute introduction to timelines, notable residents, transformations, and the stories that made each building matter.
Banking façades, the apartment age, gardens and former homes—editorial chapters reveal the history connecting one street to the next.
CHAPTERS · CURATED WALKS
Each chapter is a carefully edited reading route. Understand how the neighborhood came to be, then take those clues out into the real city.
Hudec's signature work, riding like a great ship into the corner of Huaihai and Wukang Roads
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The largest bank building in the Far East at its completion, and the crowning work of classical architecture on the Bund
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Landmark clock tower of the Bund, home to the largest surviving mechanical chiming clock in Asia
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Art Deco landmark once hailed as 'the No. 1 Building in the Far East', now the north building of the Peace Hotel
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One of Shanghai's earliest luxury apartments for foreign residents, completed in 1924 and now revived as the Blackstone M+ music quarter
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We want the app to feel like a book worth returning to, not a product competing for attention. There are no accounts and no third-party analytics. Your reading history and collection stay on your device.
FIRST EDITION · VOLUME ONE
Shanghai Architecture Archive is now available on the App Store. Take this field guide with you and begin reading Shanghai, one building at a time.