ARCHIVE · BUILDINGS
Start with these five
The Shanghai Architecture Archive documents 73 historic buildings. Five of those records are published here in summary: completion dates, architects, heritage listings, changing uses and a timeline. The full histories, the close readings and the people behind them live in the app.
Normandie Apartments / Wukang Mansion
Hudec's signature work, riding like a great ship into the corner of Huaihai and Wukang Roads
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HSBC Building, the Bund
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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Custom House, Shanghai
Landmark clock tower of the Bund, home to the largest surviving mechanical chiming clock in Asia
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Sassoon House
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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Blackstone Apartments
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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FIRST EDITION · VOLUME ONE
Read the full chapter in the app
The full history, a close reading of the architecture, and the people and city stories behind it are all in the Shanghai Architecture Archive for iOS.