Speyer Church
Repubblica Square, Berlin
In fact, German architecture is in line with the development of different periods throughout Europe.
Cologne
Speyer Cathedral, the largest surviving Romanesque architectural church in the world; Cologne Cathedral, a masterpiece of the Gothic period; St. Michael's Cathedral in Munich in the Renaissance style; pilgrimage church of the Fourteen Saints in Bamberg in the Baroque period;
St. Michael's Cathedral ©www.touristspy.com
Then there is the classicist Brandenburg Gate in Berlin – what other architecture in Germany as strongly describes the separation and unification of modern Germany;
The Brandenburg Gate in Berlin
Then came the Modernist Bauhaus – concise, practical, humane spatial details, an emphasis on integration with the surroundings... The world's first college, established entirely for the development of design education, later known as the "Cradle of Modernist Design," subtly influenced the world.
Bauhaus-style Gropius House
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In Shanghai, how can we really touch the fabric of a city?
Many have proposed various ways to "enter" the city, of which architecture is undoubtedly the most conclusive and easy to locate.
Together with Lei Tao, the "No Two Travelers" and Dalong, a non-famous wild architect in Shanghai, we followed the citywalk route carefully designed by the Scarecrow Travel, strolling through the streets of Shanghai, and professional architects explained to us the old bungalows with different styles, these buildings are three-dimensional cultural landscapes, and the stories behind them are the vivid memories of Shanghai's urban development.
Architect Da long and lei Tao, the "no two travelers", visit the old building on the Bund in Shanghai
The Bund is a landscape of more than a century in the minds of Chinese, and it is also a place where national cultural relics protection buildings are piled up, with modern Western buildings lined up one after another, similar styles but different personalities standing on the Huangpu River, witnessing the history and vicissitudes of Shanghai and even China's integration with world culture more than 100 years ago.
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Brushing away the dust of time, Shanghai's old bungalows still exude dazzling brilliance today, highlighting the city's heritage and soul, and time has allowed the stories that happened here to grow into part of the building, constituting its long-lasting vitality.
Each old building tells its own story and past, incorporating the style of the builder and the fun of the user. This time, our protagonist Lei Tao, the "No Two Travelers", follows Dalong, a non-famous wild architectural architect in Shanghai, to discover the German past hidden in Shanghai, and to appreciate the buildings that were once related to Germany and the stories related to Germany on the beach.
Meet the original Germany in Shanghai
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An old western-style building soaked in time
Look at the Holy Trinity Church opposite from the arch of the Liturgy and foreign trades
Shanghai's Jiujiang Road seems to be a dream intertwined with time and space, not like the hustle and bustle of Nanjing Road, the strands of the Bund, and the sparse people walking and stopping in the light and shadow of the Jiujiang. Walking in the direction of the Oriental Pearl, there is the Holy Trinity Church with a slight Gothic Revival style, and the Liturgy and Foreign Trade in the Revival style of Queen Anne, which tells the bustling situation of the Ten Mile Ocean Field in the last century.
Hearing Krupp's name at Reed & Co. reminded Lei Tao of the days when he visited the Krupp family manor in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Etiquette and foreign appearance
Carlowitz & Co. Once the agent of the Hamburg Steamship Company, the German Krupp Steel Mill, and the ZEISS Optical Equipment Factory, this building was built in 1898, located in 162 Neighborhood, Huangpu District, Shanghai, south of Jiujiang Road, the building is 4 stories high, brick and wood structure, slope roof, registered construction area of 6076 square meters, the designer is unknown. It is one of the earliest foreign firms founded by German businessmen in China, and it is also the most famous German-funded enterprise in the Far East, famous for importing German heavy machinery, precision instruments, railway and mining equipment and arms, and is the largest arms dealer in the late Qing and early Ming dynasties.
Etiquette and foreign trades
When it was built, the building was the largest commercial building in the Shanghai Public Concession. The façade is made of clear water and red brick masonry, which, according to the architect Dalong, also explains the European architectural cultural tradition. On the ground floor there are continuous semi-circular arches, and above them are a continuous flat-curved colonnade. The architectural form still retains much of the characteristics of colonial veranda architecture, but is much larger in scale than earlier colonial architecture. Today, the old bungalow has undergone a conservation renovation, with a café and restaurant on the first floor, a trend exhibition space on the second floor, and a co-working space with a sense of design on the third floor – is there a feeling of entering an old European house and transforming it into a new space?
Reiwa foreign firm after the renovation of the interior
The red wall that has been repainted can still faintly glimpse the imprint of a hundred years. The black steel window frames the ancient and the present with the mottled rust, and time and space seem to be reversed and solidified. Looking out the window, at the end of the road is the Oriental Pearl, and not far away is the Holy Trinity Church. Traffic, straight asphalt roads, clear-water red brick buildings, reinforced concrete urban forests, dingdang bicycle bells, buses with wires, intertwine the past and the present.
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Architecture is the art of solidification
Entrance to the Old Peace Hotel Shanghai
Pei said: "Architecture is alive, although it is solidified, but it contains humanistic ideas on it. ”
The Shanghai Federation of Trade Unions Building was originally the office of a number of German banks, and in 1880, a number of banks from Germany jointly bought the property of No. 14 on the Bund from the Upside Down, a four-story German Renaissance building, and the Deutsch-Asiatische Bank was established. However, with the outbreak of World War I, in October 1919, deutsch-Asiatische Bank was taken over by the Bank of Communications as an enemy property, and the Bank of Communications naturally moved into the Building at 14 The Bund.
Www.heritage-architectures.com of the Shanghai Federation of Trade Unions Building ©
Among the "Big Brother" buildings completed in the early 20th century or even in the late 19th century, this building is one of the few buildings that was born in the 1940s, although it is as young as it is, it has also gone through 70 spring and autumn seasons. The building is in the more fashionable Art Deco style of the time, where you can get an insight into the charm of Art Deco architecture. The façade emphasizes the vertical line composition, the central axis is symmetrical, and the top center is raised by two layers for tower-like shape. The ground floor and entrance are finished in black marble, while the rest of the walls are painted with white cement. Although simple and simple, the design of the architect Hongda at that time actually had a beautiful interior, and it was not simple at all.
Fairmont Peace Hotel building
The modern artistic symbols and urban spirit represented by Art Deco have integrated the aristocratic temperament into the architectural texture. Under the collision of Western artistic value and Eastern historical heritage, the brilliant colorful life situation is intertwined, which appears exquisite, elegant and noble.
Since 1951, the Shanghai Federation of Trade Unions has been working at No. 14 on the Bund, and the building has been renamed the Shanghai Federation of Trade Unions Building, which continues to this day. Today, it's more like an old building outside Frankfurt's train station, while the buildings of financial institutions in the center of Frankfurt are like moving from Lujiazui. In fact, architecture itself is an artistic presentation, connecting the past and the future, and is also filled with fascinating stories.
Above: Shanghai
Below: Frankfurt
East China Architectural Design and Research Institute Building, located at No. 151 Hankou Road, was originally Zhejiang First Commercial Bank, which is a modern style reinforced concrete structure built in 1948. The façade is simple, the bottom of the outer wall is stone, the main entrance of Hankou Road is treated with vertical lines, and the two sides of the façade are composed of horizontal lines with continuous sunshades. Simple and modern, functional and practical, with the Bauhaus style of German modern architecture that has been deeply influenced around the world.
East China Architectural Design and Research Institute Building
With the passage of time, the century-old style has gradually spread out, from Lihe Foreign Firm, to the East China Design Institute, to the Shanghai Federation of Trade Unions, to the Bund, just like the old movie scene flashbacks, like returning to Berlin and Hamburg.
Above: Cooper Copter GmbH at the Hamburg Concert Hall ©
Below: The Berliner Philharmoniker ©www.architecturerevived.com
Cultures overlap here, time collides here, and on the bustling pages of brick by brick and door, looking back at the magnificent shadows. Architecture becomes a container for life, blooming the fancy years of the modern era for those who have experienced the storm.
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