Xinmin Bao News (reporter Le Mengrong) reporter learned from Shanghai Rock Bund Source Company yesterday that the much-anticipated Rock Bund Source is initially scheduled to open the street in an all-round way next spring, and it is expected to be built into a new urban landmark that narrates history and looks forward to the future.
Photo: Shanghai Locke Bund Source Xinmin Evening News reporter Wang Kai photo
Rock Bund Source is located at the confluence of the Huangpu River and Suzhou Creek, bordered by Yuanmingyuan Road and No. 33 Parkland to the east, Huqiu Road to the west, Suzhou Road to the north, and Beijing East Road to the south. Compared with the homogenization and standardization of other urban spaces, Locke Bund is rooted in a unique historical and cultural environment, which is a public environment that can shape a unique local culture. It has always attracted attention for its historical and geographical importance, and the beginning of China's modern city a hundred years ago has now transformed into a cutting-edge community that integrates history, art and commerce, guarding and continuing Shanghai's urban memory with a new image.
In 2006, Rock Bund invited the renowned firm Dai Wei Chippfield Architects DCA to undertake the renovation and design of the historic building and remodeled the ZhongAn Mei Feng Building. The 11 historical buildings were built in the 1920s, namely: Guanglu Building, Guangxue Building, Asian Cultural Association Building, Zhongshi Building, Ampere Foreign Firm, Yuanmingyuan Apartment, YWCA Building, Hami Building, Xiejin Building, Lyceum Building, Lyceum Building, Zhenguang Building, which carry important urban archives. The renovation of the old building is as old as the old, following the authenticity of history, the design retains the historical buildings on the Yuanmingyuan Road and the street style of the overall plot of the Bund Source, making the building full of vitality without changing the original regional style. The original texture of the city has also been preserved, and it is integrated with the new design, making the texture of the entire area coherent and permeable.
Illustration: Bund Source Historical Building Map
Many of the 11 historic buildings have left the footprints of legendary figures. The YMCA building, in the early years, the 4th floor was the International Arts Theater. On the afternoon of March 9, 1936, the film master Chaplin met here with Peking Opera master Mei Lanfang and actor Hu Die, and visited the exhibition of modern Chinese paintings participated by Liu Haisu and Huang Binhong, leaving a good story in the history of Cultural Exchanges between China and foreign countries.
The True Light Building on Yuanmingyuan Road, named after the publication True Light published by the church institution, is a sister building with the same architectural style, back-to-back, and connected to the Guangxue Building, both designed by the Hungarian architect Hudak.
The Lyceum Tower on Yuanmingyuan Road was identified as the site of the Lyceum Theatre, and in 1866, a timber-framed Lyceum Theater was built at the corner of Upper Yuanmingyuan Road (present-day Tiger Hill Road) and Nomen Road (present-day Hong Kong Road). On March 1 of the following year, the Shanghai Westerners Love American Drama Society, composed of Western expatriates, premiered here.
Pictured: Overlooking the Bund source Xinmin Evening News reporter Wang Kai photographed
On the site of the former Asian Cultural Society Building, where the Rockbund Art Museum is located today, the earliest museum in China was built in 1874. Tens of thousands of collections became one of the important collection sources of the Shanghai Museum of Natural History, the Shanghai Museum, and the Shanghai Library. Therefore, Tiger Hill Road was originally named "Museum Road", which has extraordinary historical significance.
Xinmin Evening News and the Bund Source also have a relationship. On May 1, 1946, The Shanghai Xinmin Bao Evening Magazine was founded at No. 50 Yuanmingyuan Road, and every afternoon, the Xinmin Evening News, which was full of ink, was sent to the whole country from here, and the coordinate works of Chinese journalism history spread from here. There are other news organizations along the way, such as Wen Wei Po.