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The American Club, located at No. 209 Fuzhou Road, was designed by L.E. Hudec working for the American architectural firm, R.A.Curry. Having been recently occupied by the Shanghai High People’s Court, it is now empty. Commissioned by the American Club in China, offices were also provided to The American Chamber of Commerce and LaSalle Extension University. Hudec’s design was completed in May 1923, and the steel and concrete construction was finished in August 1925. Built by Xin Ji Construction Firm, the seven storey building with one underground covered 916 sq-meters with 6,753 sq meters of building area.
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Avenue Apartments, known today as Lianhua Apartments, is located at 1341 to 1383 West Beijing Road. Designed in March 1931 and completed in May 1932, the four- to five-floor reinforced concrete structure takes 12923 square-meters of building area. It was commissioned by Lianhua Real Estate Company, under the design of Bengtlindskog for the structural works and of Philip A. Sergeant Contracting End for the engineering project.
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Yan Xi Tang, known today as the Catholic Country Church in the western suburbs of Shanghai, was previously known as the Chapel of the Westerners Cemetery on Rubicon Road.
Ma Xiangbo and other famous Chinese educators and Catholic patriots raised funds to complete the Church in 1925.
The two-storey reinforced concrete structure has a building area of 239 square meters.
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Built in about 1928, Zhabei Power Station was of the typical industrial style in Europe of that time. Besides the design, Hudec took charge of all construction. Skodaworks of Czechoslovakia installed the most advanced power generation plant in Zhabei Power Station. Without any necessary decoration, the façade left a calm and harmonious impression for its geographic volumes and blocks. Independent from the traditional decoration elements, the power station enjoyed a unique visual effect for its treatment of facing tiles and narrow and thin sashes. It was the reflection of the architect’s concept that modern industrial architecture should combine artistry in the most feasible solution.
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Christine Literature Society Building, which is located at 128 Huqiu Road, was once the site of Shanghai Stationery and Sports Goods Import and Export Company Limited, and now is vacant. Designed in August 1930 and completed in March 1932, the nine-story (with one floor underground) reinforced concrete structure covers 613 square-meters of site area and 4089 square-meters of building area. Bengtlindskog did the structural engineering.
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Columbia Circle, known today as the “Foreign Lane”, consists of Lane 119, 155, 185, 211 and 329. It was named after the adjacent street Fanyu Road, which was called Route de la Columbie in old times. Commissioned by Shanghai Asia Real Estate Company, Lane 211 and 329 of Xinhua Road with two-or three-story single houses was designed in 1928 and completed by Caishun Ji Construction Firm in 1932.
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Located at No.211 West Yan’an Road, Country Hospital, known today as the 10th Building of Huadong Hospital, was a polyclinic which had been donated to the Municipality of Shanghai International Concession by an anonymous British businessman. The hospital was designed in 1923 and completed in 1926. With a site area of 2,300 square-meters and built-up area of 10,649 square-meters, the five-storey building was constructed by Pan Rong Ji Construction Firm with a steel-concrete structure.
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Estrella Apartment, known today as Ruijin Building, is located at No 150 Ruijin Yi Road. The building was designed in April 1926 and was completed in 1927. The seven-storey steel-concrete framed structure takes 0.7 Mu and has the building area of 2,941 square-meters. The structural engineering was designed by J. E. Hayes Engineering Company. Structural Engineering and the contractor was Chinese United Engineering Company.
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Grand Theatre, known today as the Grand Cinema, is located at 216 West Nanjing Road. It was built on the site of old houses owned by the United Movies Co., Ltd, who took 1.1 million Liang of Silvers to clear the site. Designed in October 1931 and completed in May 1933, the three-storey building with reinforced concrete structure covers 4,016 square-meters of site area and 6,249.5 square-meters of building area.
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Hubertus Court, known today as the Da Hua Hotel, is located at No. 918 West Ya’an Road. Enjoying a reputation as the “little Park Hotel”, the building was commissioned by Hudec’s own real estate company, and his family lived here from 1941 to 1947. Designed in 1935 and completed in 1937, the ten-storey reinforced concrete structure covers 3,000 square-meters on site and takes up 9,846 square-meters of the building area.
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Standing at No. 261 Middle Sichuan Road, the Joint Savings Society Bank Building on Hankou Road was designed in May 1926 and completed in May 1928. The Joint Savings Society was an amalgamation of four banks, which, by 1927, had become one of the ten largest banks in China The structure was contained in the steel-concrete framed structure covering 607 square-meters and taking up 5441 square-meters of building space. With nine stories above the ground and one storey underground, it was 50 meters in height.
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McGregor Hall in McTyeire School for Girls, known today as the Wu Si (4th May) Building of Shanghai No.3 Girls High School, is located at No. 155 Jiangsu Road. The school was built in 1935 and founded by the American Southern Methodist Mission. The three-and-a-half-story building was constructed in a brick-and –stone structure.
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Moore Memorial Church, known today as the Mu En Tang, is located at No. 316 Middle Xizang Road. It was formerly a Methodist Church, established in 1887 and then changed its’ name to “Moore Memorial Church”, when rebuilt in 1931 with money donated by Mr. JM Moore, in memory of his daughter. Occupied by the Japanese army from 1941 to 1945 and then by a Nanjing Middle School, it resumed its religious functions in 1979. Covering a site area of 1,347 square-meters and building area of 3,138 square-meters, the church was of a three-storey steel-concrete structure, constructed by the “English Eastern Ironworks” Company.
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A strong example of the neoclassical style of the French Renaissance period, and built for the French Firm, The International Savings Society, its name was later changed to the “Normandie”. The building is located at No. 1836 to 1858, Middle Huaihai Road, formerly Avenue Joffre. The building was designed in October 1923, and completed in 1924. The eight-storey steel-concrete structure was the first apartment building with single loaded corridors in Shanghai.
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Shanghai Joint Savings Society Building, known today as the International Hotel, or Park Hotel, is located at No. 170 West Nanjing Road. It was named after the allied bank founded in 1923 by the Yienyieh Commercial Bank, Kincheng Banking corporation, the China and South Sea Bank and the Continental Bank. Designed in March 1931 and completed in December 1934, the building is 83.8-metres high and contains 22 stories above ground and another 2 stories underground. Built by Voh Kee Construction Company, the piling project was finished by a Danish Company established by Corrit.
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This is the former home of Liu Jisheng, brother of China's industrialist Liu Hongsheng. The Liu brothers were known as the "coal magnate," and one of the four biggest industrial and commercial magnates before 1949 (the other three were the Rong Brothers, the Jians' Nanyang Tobaccos, and the Guos' Yong'an Group).
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Mr. DV Wu Tongwen’s Residence, formerly Shanghai Urban Planning Design Institute, now with restaurant facililities on the ground floor and office for Zhonghenghao International Trade (Shanghai) Com., Ltd on the upper floors, is situated at No. 33 Tongren Road. Containing over 2,000 square-meters of building area, the four-storey reinforced concrete structure was designed in September 1935 and completed in July 1938. Because of the surface covered with green glazed tiles, it is commonly known as "the green house".
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Sun Ke’s (Dr. Sun Yat Sen’s son) Residence, which is, today, the graduate students’ administrative building of the Shanghai Institute of Biological Products, is located at No. 60 Panyu Road. It was designed in 1929 and constructed in 1931 by the famous Hungarian architect L.E. Hudec as his own residence. Because Sun Ke had earlier helped Hudec obtain the commission to design the JM Moore Memorial Church (also known as the Mu En Tang), the architect sold the house to him at a very low price. With its land area of 8000 square-meters and building area of 1000 square-meters, the three-storey building was built of a wooden and brick structure.
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The Mansion was designed and built in 1920 for Sir Robert Ho, a successful businessman from Hong Kong. Sir Ho and his family lived in the building until 1949. Much of the architecture including the design and building characteristics are typically neoclassical, giving it a real sense of character and elegance.
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Designed in October 1931 and completed in May 1933, the factory once boasted being the biggest beer producer in the far-east containing 11,100 square-meters of plot area and 28,800 square-meters of building area and it was the heaviest building in the Far-East.
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