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Continuing on the topic of buildings that have long disappeared, here is another forgotten pearl - the 'old' Wheel casino and its successor the Ritz Café.

This image of the Commercial Press under construction, at 26 Paoshan Road, may be showing the casino building in the background:

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This article was originally written for the Shanghai Architecture Series in Magazeta: https://magazeta.com/2019/04/arc-majestic/


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I never knew that a 1910s building is preserved in the middle of the much-changed West Nanjing Road. The Star Garage on Bubbling Well Road, designed by Abelardo Lafuente's firm now houses the Windows bar.


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