Highlights of this project appear on the Facebook page Mapping Old Shanghai. Here is a selection of images from the latest hundred:

Flood on the corner of Avenue Foch and Seymour Road, during a summer rain in 1940:

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This beautiful drawing shows the first known project of Charles Henry Gonda, Shanghai's modernist architect:


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Designed by C. H. Gonda and built in 1931, on the southeast corner of today's North Shaanxi Road and Xinzha Road.


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This is Cosmopolitan Theatre (普庆影戏院 or 国光大戏院) in Hongkou, designed by C. H. Gonda in 1930 and subsequently built on East Seward Road. Its more recent name was 国光剧场, and the address was 550 Dongchangzhi Road 东长治路550号. It was demolished around 2004 to widen Xinjian Road.


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Thanks to marenzhi's priceless involvement, there is now a detailed English-language Wikipedia entry on the Shanghai architect C. H. Gonda.


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Sun Sun Co. department store 新新百货公司
Built in 1924-1925, opened in January 1926.
Architect: C. H. Gonda
Address: 720 East Nanjing Road 南京东路720好

Read the article in Russian in magazeta: https://magazeta.com/arc-xinxin/


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