To install click the Add extension button. That's it.

The source code for the WIKI 2 extension is being checked by specialists of the Mozilla Foundation, Google, and Apple. You could also do it yourself at any point in time.

4,5
Kelly Slayton
Congratulations on this excellent venture… what a great idea!
Alexander Grigorievskiy
I use WIKI 2 every day and almost forgot how the original Wikipedia looks like.
Live Statistics
English Articles
Improved in 24 Hours
Added in 24 Hours
Languages
Recent
Show all languages
What we do. Every page goes through several hundred of perfecting techniques; in live mode. Quite the same Wikipedia. Just better.
.
Leo
Newton
Brights
Milds

Former American Club, Shanghai

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Former American Club in Shanghai

The American Club, 209 Fuzhou Rd, Shanghai was built by László Hudec of Curry & Co. between 1923 and 1925 in the American Georgian Style.[1] Originally built as an all-male club after purchasing the site in 1922, it was a popular club for expatriates. A six-storey building plus basement, around 1000m2 per floor, designed in the common steel and concrete construction prevalent along The Bund area of Shanghai. Containing bars, billiard room and 50 bedrooms there was also a rooftop garden.[2]

Original corner stone of the American Club

“Architect Laszlo Hudec chose the American Georgian colonial style, which was popular with social clubs in the US at that time,” says Tongji University associate professor Hua Xiahong, author of the book “Shanghai Hudec Architecture.” “The interior is designed ... with a lot of dark wood, classic applied columns and white door frames. It is not widely known, but the mahjong room on the second floor came from the hand of a Chinese expert, who adapted the typical Chinese official style,” Hua adds. “The room has a Chinese-style coffered ceiling with colorful paintings and palace lanterns as ornaments. It is furnished with traditional Chinese square tables and fauteuils to enhance the Chinese ambience.”

Between 1960 and 1991 it became the premises of the Shanghai Higher People's Court and the Shanghai Second Intermediate people’s court.[3] A Shanghai Architectural Plaque was mounted in 1994, but in 2017 the building had been unused and empty since 1991. On 20 August 2018, the newly established Shanghai Financial Court opened in the building.[4]

High resolution photograph of Former American Club, Shanghai.
Former American Club, Shanghai

External links

References

  1. ^ "Shanghai Walks: Laszlo Hudec in Shanghai". Timeout Shanghai. SEEC Media. 3 June 2013. Retrieved 26 September 2017.
  2. ^ American Club's New Building, North China Herald, April 4, 1925
  3. ^ "Venetian Style American Club Building (in Chinese)
  4. ^ ""Country's First Financial Court Opens in Shanghai"". Archived from the original on 2018-09-15. Retrieved 2018-09-15.


This page was last edited on 25 April 2024, at 10:13
Basis of this page is in Wikipedia. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported License. Non-text media are available under their specified licenses. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. WIKI 2 is an independent company and has no affiliation with Wikimedia Foundation.