Never noticed before - the cover design of Carl Crow’s 400 Million Customers, published in 1937, features what looks like a street scene on Rue du Consulat, with its characteristic arcades...



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1937, Rue Tourane leading to the French Concession from the Chinese City is blocked by the gate:



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I have to sterilize my cursor with alcohol before picking these toxic upbeat articles and dropping the link in my blog. This is just another typical rah-rah-redevelopment propaganda, legitimizing the forcible overtake of people's houses by Shanghai government and developers in order to turn them into playgrounds for the rich. You see, the street's ( Read more... )

This week's article in the Russian-language architecture series in Magazera introduces the little-known (and frequently misidentified) family home and company headquarters of the Tata & Co., at 8 Rue du Consulat: https://magazeta.com/arc-tata-building/

Here I wrote about the Tata Building in English.


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https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/hqYJIVCtwNYkuZMBp-NMkA

I do not recommend this read, but I do recommend my investigation into the real origins of arcade houses along Jinling Road, which refutes the "Southern China influence" theory. And here is my older post - or rather, lonely hysterical cry - about the destruction of this inimitable historic street ( Read more... )

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After I mapped this corner I looked up 美华照相馆 photo studio (the building on the far left):

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https://magazeta.com/2018/06/arc-jinlinglu/


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