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Internal view of the mansion. The Moller Villa (Male zhuzhai, 马勒住宅), located at .30 South Shanxi Road in the French Concession area of Shanghai, China, is a colonial-era mansion. [1] The villa was built by Eric Moller, a Swedish shipping magnate, in 1936. [2] The distinctive design includes brown-tiled Gothic and Tudor gables, spires ...
In 1982, the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Planning and Natural Resources submitted a draft list of 155 damaged buildings that needed protection to the State Council of the People's Republic of China. In 1985, a plan was drafted, and in 1986, the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Housing and Urban-Rural Construction recorded and recovered ...
The Wukang Mansion or Wukang Building ( Chinese: 武康大楼 ), formerly known as the Normandie Apartments or International Savings Society Apartments, is a protected historic apartment building in the former French Concession area of Shanghai. It was designed by the Hungarian-Slovak architect László Hudec and completed in 1924.
The Old City of Shanghai ( Chinese: 上海老城厢; pinyin: Shànghǎi Lǎo Chéngxiāng; Shanghainese: Zånhae Lo Zenshian ), also formerly known as the Chinese city, is the traditional urban core of Shanghai. Its boundary was formerly defined by a defensive wall. The Old City was the county seat for the old county of Shanghai.
The Shanghai Custom House was first set up in the late 17th century, when the Qing dynasty Kangxi Emperor lifted the ban against sea trade after conquering Taiwan. To facilitate trading along the east coast of China , the Qing government set up customs houses in the four coastal provinces of Jiangnan (now split into Jiangsu and Anhui), Zhejiang ...
Transcriptions. The Shanghai Museum is a municipal public museum of ancient Chinese art, situated on the People's Square in the Huangpu District of Shanghai, China. It is funded by the Shanghai Municipal Culture and Tourism Bureau. Rebuilt at its current location in 1996, it is famous for its large collection of rare cultural pieces.
Traditional Chinese house architecture. Traditional Chinese house architecture refers to a historical series of architecture styles and design elements that were commonly utilised in the building of civilian homes during the imperial era of ancient China. Throughout this two-thousand year long period, significant innovations and variations of ...
Shanghai Tower ( Chinese: 上海中心大厦; pinyin: Shànghǎi Zhōngxīn Dàshà; Shanghainese: Zånhe Tsonsin Dusa; lit. 'Shanghai Center Building') is a 128-story, 632-meter-tall (2,073 ft) megatall skyscraper located in Lujiazui, Pudong, Shanghai. [10] It is the tallest building in China and the world's third-tallest building by height to ...