[architecture can be read] color dome, bronze lion… Have you ever been to this magnificent Centennial building on the Bund?


As an integral part of the Bund complex in Shanghai, the building has been announced as a national key cultural relics protection unit.

The center of the hall is an arched glass ceiling with a height of 13.2m.

In order to safely and effectively peel off up to four layers of putty paint applied on the surface of the mural and avoid damage to the mosaic mural, experts and old craftsmen adopted the construction process and procedure of applying first and then shoveling, so as to restore the precious mural of about 200 square meters and repair more than 50 falling off, cracked and broken parts in the mural.

The architectural modeling adopts vertical and horizontal three-stage treatment, and the vertical and horizontal lines formed by the main gate and the dome form symmetry on both sides, forming a sense of stability visually.

In order to meet the functional needs of modern banking, the building has been comprehensively repaired, mainly including repairing the building appearance, octagonal hall and business hall on the ground floor, restoring the functions of banks on the ground floor and the first floor, and updating the building equipment.

The base adopts rough large granite wall and arch, and the middle part is supported by Corinth colonnade through the second, third and fourth floors, so as to enhance the three-dimensional feeling of the whole building.

12, Zhongshan East 1st road opening hours: 09:00-16:00 from Monday to Sunday (the exterior of the building is open all day, and the interior is only accessible for business).

The middle walkway is adopted.

The column caps and column bases are inlaid with bronze leather, with exquisite copper leather patterns, complete marble mosaic floor patterns on the ground Clear.

This building was the HSBC building, which covered the largest area, the widest facade and the most spectacular building by the Huangpu River at that time.

In 1996, Shanghai Pudong Development Bank entered the building.

Opening hours address: No.

There are two floors below the dome.

The lower floor was originally a dance hall and the upper floor was a lounge.

The high-speed air supply nozzle on the inner wall of the hall, the air supply and return air outlet of the business hall, this repair design uses the basement space to arrange the air conditioning equipment room and air supply and return duct system, and the air supply and return air outlet uses the original radiator wall cabinet and ground cabinet in the hall.

There are two ionic decorative columns carved from the whole marble at the north and south ends of the ceiling.

The building itself, HSBC building, now known as Shanghai Pudong Development Bank building, is located at the intersection of Zhongshan East 1st Road and Fuzhou Road, with the west facing east.

It is equipped with Chinese chandeliers.

The decoration is simple and generous, with Chinese traditional style..

Step up from the front door and enter the business hall of the bank through the octagonal hall.

The first to third floors were originally rental Offices, with a mouth-shaped plane and a large patio in the middle.

HSBC building under construction the predecessor of Shanghai Pudong Development Bank is HSBC.

Business hall building the business hall is rectangular and surrounded by 28 Ionic columns decorated with marble.

40 Fuzhou road.

The east end of the fourth floor is rental rooms, and the rest are apartments.

Due to the rapid development of HSBC business, the old building was demolished and a new HSBC building was built in 1921.

In order to coordinate with the overall style after repair, the bank abandoned the inherent corporate logo and adopted the bronze casting corporate logo consistent with the building style and the same material, which achieved a relatively coordinated effect.

The planes of each floor are basically the same except for local differences.

The upper part of the octagonal hall is a dome ceiling inlaid with the patterns of HSBC banks in the world composed of color mosaics.

The offices are arranged along both sides of the walkway.

In the 1950s, HSBC moved out and was the office of the Shanghai Municipal People’s government from 1956 to 1995.

Building repair the building repair project in 1998 carried out comprehensive building repair and equipment renewal of the old building that has been more than 70 years based on the principle of “respecting history, restoring the original appearance, improving functions, implementing laws and regulations and making scientific decisions”.

The middle tower floor is an octagonal plane.

The exterior walls of the main facade along the street are made of granite and exquisite copper doors and windows, and the secondary facade is made of brushed stone and steel doors and windows.

The appearance of the building is a rigorous Western neoclassicism style, and the facade materials are primary and secondary.

The land area of the building is 9338m ², Building area 23415m ², There is one floor underground, the main building on the ground is five floors (excluding mezzanine), the middle part is seven floors, and the whole building is a steel frame structure.

The main entrance of the building is located in the East, with three bronze gates, which are exquisitely cast.

The interior lighting of the building should not only meet the use function, but also maintain the historical context of the original building.

In 1874, HSBC bought a piece of land on the south side of Jiang customs, and then built a three story British classical building.

The eaves are well proportioned, with the dome protruding from the top, ups and downs and distinct layers.

Today, let’s understand its story.

The foreign exchange business hall of the foreign exchange business hall building was originally a Chinese business hall, which came in and out from No.

At the same time, combined with the re arranged business counter in the business hall, the air return outlet is set, and the high-speed air supply nozzle with small volume and small mouth is set up at the high part of the inner wall of the hall.

The building was designed by the British business corporation and the foreign bank, and built by the British business corporation Deloitte foreign bank; Construction started in 1921 and was completed in June 1923.

Therefore, it is finally determined to continue the original lamp layout and chandelier form, and completely transform the light source configuration and lamp structure.

External repair design: the main entrance of the large building after repair adopts the method of “drug application and adsorption” to clean the dirt in the granite wall, so as to avoid the loss and hidden danger of the traditional method to the stone wall.

At that time, it was known as “the most exquisite building from the Suez Canal to the Bering Strait in the Far East”.

Double Ended Ferrule

The walls and columns are built with marble benches.

The “building completion and opening commemorative nameplate” at the entrance and the “building completion and opening commemorative nameplate” at the entrance were restored, repaired and restored.

There are eight Italian marble columns around the octagonal Hall of the building.

Among the buildings on the Bund, there is a magnificent and famous building, which frequently appears in scholars’ works and students’ textbooks.

The building cost a total of 8 million taels of silver.

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