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Artist, photographer and Shanghai history enthusiast Emmanuel Chantebout has been producing animated documentaries about Shanghai's famous architects.

Here is his film on Leonard, Veysseyre & Kruze:

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...and here is an earlier one, on L. E. Hudec:

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Yesterday's publication about the Midget Apartments put under scrutiny the common understanding that Leonard, Veysseyre & Kruze designed the building. This attribution has wormed its way onto the heritage plaque on the facade:

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A nice portrait of the architect Alexandre Leonard, in 1931. His confidence and expertise shines through, in this anonymous photograph in Le journal de Shanghai:

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