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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 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 Bund [a] is a waterfront area and a protected historical district in central Shanghai. The area centers on a section of Zhongshan Road (East Zhongshan Road No.1) within the former Shanghai International Settlement, which runs along the western bank of the Huangpu River in the eastern part of Huangpu. The area along the river faces the ...
Location. Shanghai, China. Created. 1577. Yu Garden [1] or Yuyuan Garden [2] ( traditional Chinese : 豫 園; simplified Chinese : 豫 园; pinyin : Yù Yuán, Shanghainese YuyoeWu Chinese pronunciation: [ɦy²².ɦɥø⁵⁵], lit.Garden of Happiness [3]) is an extensive Chinese garden located beside the City God Temple in the northeast of the ...
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 ...
The Custom House (simplified Chinese: 江海关大楼; traditional Chinese: 江海關大樓; pinyin: Jiāng hǎiguān dàlóu) is an eight story building on the Bund, Shanghai. Built in 1927, the building remains a customs house today. Together with the neighboring HSBC Building, the Custom House is seen as one of the symbols of the Bund and ...
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 ...
In southern China, the houses are built with multiple stories. In the northeast, land is abundant but the weather is cold, so courtyards are built broad and large to increase the exposure to sunlight, and there are more open areas inside the walls. Neo-siheyuan style