Hengshan road's Petty bourgeoisie literary feelings

hengshan road, located in Xuhui District, Shanghai, is a main traffic road connecting Xujiahui and Huaihai Road. It was once the most famous leisure street in Shanghai. Hengshan road was founded in 1892, built by the French Public Board. It was named after philip petain, a famous French politician at that time, who became a French hero during World War I, and was renamed hengshan road in 1943.

hengshan road, with a total length of 2.3 kilometers, originally belonged to a high-grade residential area in the French Concession. In the 193s and 194s, there were nearly 2, old houses where many famous cultural figures and dignitaries lived. The lush French phoenix trees on both sides of the road and mysterious old houses with different styles in the tree-lined trees added a strong exotic cultural atmosphere to hengshan road, and all of them told people about their past history and glory. Once hengshan road, known as the "Oriental Champs Elysé es Avenue", was the most prosperous bar street in Shanghai. Every night, the bars along the street were full of colorful lights and became the first choice to verify the charm of Shanghai at night.

Later, with the birth of Xintiandi, the appearance of Julu Road Bar Street and the rise of sinan mansions, the popularity of hengshan road was much less. Today, hengshan road seems a little lonely, but it has a fresh breath of elegance and literature. Hengshan road is still a fashionable and classic leisure street, with all kinds of restaurants, various leisure bars, entertainment and fitness, bookstores and galleries.

No.4, Lane 9, hengshan road, built in 1923, is a modern detached garden house, registered as an immovable cultural relic in Xuhui District. Lin Qiaozhi, one of the founders of modern obstetrics and gynecology in China, once lived here in 195s and 196s.

Lin Qiaozhi (191-1983) was a native of Gulangyu, Siming, Fujian. Peking Union Medical College Hospital is the first director of obstetrics and gynecology in China and the only female member (academician) of the first China Academy of Sciences. Lin Qiaozhi personally delivered more than 5, babies in his life, and made contributions to the research on intrauterine breathing, female pelvic diseases, gynecological tumors and neonatal hemolysis. He is one of the founders of modern obstetrics and gynecology in China. She died of illness in Beijing on April 22, 1983. She donated her life savings of 3, yuan to the hospital nursery, and her ashes were scattered in the sea of Gulangyu, her hometown. After Lin Qiaozhi's death, the Lin Qiaozhi Memorial Hall named "Yu Huan" was built in Gulangyu, Xiamen in 1984.

hengshan road No.1 was founded in 1922. It was originally Shanghai Meitong Public School, also known as Shanghai American School. It was an international school mainly for American children in Shanghai from 1912 to 1949, when many Christian children studied at Meitong Public School. The building was listed as an outstanding historical building in Shanghai in 1994. Now it is used by 74 Research Institute of Shanghai Ship Equipment Research Institute.

This historic building was designed by American architect Henry Murphy. The architectural design mainly imitates the style of the Independence Hall in Philadelphia, USA. It consists of three buildings: the main building, the dormitory building and the water tower. The whole building is L-shaped, with a total construction area of 6,118 square meters.

the facade of the main building is long and stretched, symmetrical from left to right, and vertical in three stages. There are tiger windows arranged in succession on the roof, and there is a protruding tower in the middle of the roof. The walls are mostly clear water red bricks, and the eaves and coupons are decorated with white stones. The water tower is simple in shape, with overhangs at the top, clear water red brick exterior wall, slightly concave and convex wall surface at the corner, decorative pattern on the wall surface, and a circle of iron railings at the top. The window hole area is small, and the overall style is heavy and reliable. The dormitory building is a Western-style building, with simple building shape, gentle sloping roof and not far from the eaves. The roof is regularly decorated with tiger windows, fair-faced red brick exterior walls and triangular gables, and the facade composition is regular. The bottom floor is a continuous circular arch door and window, and the upper two floors are rectangular windows and holes. The composition of the facade is neat and rigorous, and the decoration is simplified.

hengshan road No.12 is a five-story building. It is a luxurious five-star hotel, which opened at 12: 12 on December 12th, 212. It is a boutique brand owned by Starwood, an internationally renowned hotel chain. The hotel adopts the concept of hotel design, and is designed by mario botta, a famous Swiss contemporary architect. His landmark buildings include the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Samsung Art Museum in Seoul.

The hotel has a total construction area of 5, square meters, with three floors underground and five floors above ground. There is an oval inner courtyard with a long axis of 7 meters, a pool, a French phoenix tree and various shrubs, and a roof garden on the top floor. The exterior wall of the building is decorated with more than 2, Italian-imported natural terracotta bricks, which echoes the impression of the city of hengshan road block covered with phoenix trees and red brick walls, showing the elegance of luxury boutique hotels in a low-key manner.

At the intersection of hengshan road and Urumqi North Road, a 23-storey neoclassical art building, its design style is the crystallization of inspiration from architectural elites all over the world. This building, commonly known as "Zhi Building", is a luxury serviced apartment that can be rented and sold, but its price is the most expensive in Shanghai. It's expensive, not only because of the elegance and luxury of the building's interior architecture and the intimate service of its international five-star hotel standards, but more importantly, in this building, from the carved doors for welcoming guests, the seats placed at random, to the seemingly ordinary oil paintings on the walls, all of them are written by top international artists or design masters.

The hostess of Zhi Mansion is Lin Mingzhu, the founder of the prestigious first luxury art gallery in Asia and a gorgeous woman with various titles. His father is Lin Baixin, a famous Hong Kong industrialist and billionaire, and honorary chairman of ATV. The second son is Lin Jianyue, the head of the whole Asia film, who invested in Infernal Affairs and achieved great success.

Located at No.53, hengshan road, which is tree-lined, it is a world-famous Christian international chapel. It is the largest Christian church in Shanghai, with 1,4 seats. It is a place for Christians from all countries and sects to worship together. In 1923, it was built by American expatriates in China. At that time, the directors, priests and believers of the church management board were mainly Americans, and they had to speak English when they entered the church.

The church is a modern Gothic brick-wood structure, with English folk rural architecture style. It covers an area of more than 7,33 square meters, with a building area of 1,372 square meters. It is a red brick structure with a hall height of 16 meters. The plane of the church body is L-shaped, with the gate facing north. On the left side of the church is a three-story building, with the pastor's office on the ground floor and a small auditorium on the third floor. There are pointed arch corridors on both sides of the lobby, and the window frames are arc-shaped and inlaid with plum-blossom glass. In the center of the lobby is the altar, and on both sides are the two-story gallery halls. In 1931, a small auditorium, a priest's house, an office and an activity room on the three-story wing were built, and then double-deck large electronic organ, grand piano and closed-circuit television were installed. All the walkways are ground floors with ground stones, and the hall is fully equipped and heated. The total cost is about $33,.

There are two services on Sunday morning, which can be visited inside. The choir of the chapel is very famous, and grand music activities are held every religious festival and Sunday in the third week of every month. The chapel has received a large number of overseas people, including former US President Jimmy Carter, Nobel Peace Prize winner desmond tutu, the first black archbishop of South Africa, and countless believers attend religious activities every Sunday.

hengshan road 3 Lane has two residential buildings, north and south, which were built in 1928. It is a new residential area in Lane, and the fourth batch of outstanding historical buildings in Shanghai. Because its west is connected with Libo Garden Villa, No.87, Wu Xinglu, people also call this new-style lane Libo Garden.

The exterior details of Libo Garden have the characteristics of Art Deco. The facade is simple, the eaves on the top floor are large, there are horizontal decorative belts under the eaves, the walls are brushed, the windows are regular, there are light-colored geometric decorations around the window openings, and the window lintels are folded arch coupons, which are different from the facade materials. There are exquisite iron railings on the windowsill of the protruding part of the facade. The whole building is harmonious and unified, and the scale is cordial. Indoor black and white tile floor has its own characteristics.

Washington apartment, built in 1928, is an excellent modern building in Shanghai and a municipal-level building protection unit. Now it is West Lake apartment. Art Deco apartments. Because it is located at an acute corner, the overall plane is slightly triangular. The wall is simple, and the appearance was originally brushed with yellow cement, and then painted with light green paint. The white decorative pattern between the windows and the shrinking pattern above the entrance door frame show the influence of Art Deco style.

It is said that the apartment was built with Chinese investment. After the completion of the project, the owner took the real estate as collateral, borrowed money from Chinachem Real Estate Company, which belongs to New Sassoon Foreign Firm, and later sold it to Chinachem Real Estate Company at a premium because it was unable to repay the principal and interest, and then changed hands several times. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the apartment was renamed Xihu Apartment. In 1982, two floors were added to the original building, which had a great influence on the original architectural style.

When it was first built, the apartment was 9 floors with reinforced concrete structure, which was the largest apartment at that time. The standard floor is made up of three units, and each unit has a main staircase and an auxiliary staircase. Besides the stairs, there is also an elevator. It is one of the earliest apartments using elevators in Shanghai apartment building. In that era when many people still regarded electric lights as a rarity, it was too fashionable to use elevators. Moreover, the apartment completely abandoned the European Renaissance style popular in Shanghai at that time and accepted the calendar years of western modern architecture, which was very concise.

Huisile Apartment, now Jiya Apartment, was built in 1942. At that time, according to the requirements of the owner, the design was designed for simple families and single solitary households, similar to today's serviced apartments. The apartment is simple in shape and its style was popular in Shanghai in the 193s and 194s.

The building plane is T-shaped, with seven stories high in the middle of the facade and four stories high in the wings, and the two sides gradually drop symmetrically. The vertical white cement decorative belt in the middle is in sharp contrast with the yellow exterior wall.

Although the apartment is unremarkable, it is not small. It is the first project of Fan Wenzhao, a famous architect in China, after completing the Meiqi Grand Theatre in 1941. Fan Wenzhao is an important architect in the history of modern architecture in China. His early works were mostly western retro styles, and later influenced by modern western decorative art school, his works turned to decorative art style, with Jiya Apartment as one of his representative works. The building is built along the street, with shops on the ground floor and apartments above the second floor. The architectural style is simple and generous, and the style was popular in Shanghai in the 193s and 194s. In the 198s, when the house was overhauled, the exterior wall was changed into a yellow mosaic.

Kevin Apartment, the north building is located at No.525, hengshan road (and No.75, Jianguo West Road), which is called Big Kevin Apartment, and the south building is located at No.75, Jianguo West Road, which is called Little Kevin Apartment, which was built in 1932. The building is a modernist apartment with a simple appearance. The shape of the building is raised in the middle and gradually dropped on both sides. After 1949, it was converted into an athlete's dormitory. Until the 199s, it became the earliest hotel-style apartment in Shanghai.

Hengshan Hotel, No.534, hengshan road, was originally Picardi Apartment, a luxury apartment on Bettan Road in the west of the French Concession. Picardi is a regional name in northern France. This is a modern point apartment, which was built in 1934. It was invested by China Jianye Real Estate Company, a subsidiary of the French merchant Shanghai International Livestock Storage Association, designed by the French merchant construction company, and built by Pan Rongji, Hu Shunji, Liyuanji and Chen Yongji.

After 1945, the World Savings Association closed down and cleaned up, and Bikadi apartment was also auctioned. In 1955, Bikadi Apartment was changed into Hengshan Guest House to receive Soviet experts. In 196, it was changed to a hotel, called "Hengshan Hotel", where the municipal government received distinguished guests. In 1985, two floors were partially added. Now it is Hengshan Hotel.

Hengshan Mountain is adjacent to Xujiahui Greenland and Hengshan Park, with elegant environment, spacious and comfortable rooms, which are favored by guests, and the interior decoration is mainly in French style. The whole apartment faces south and consists of three parts: east, west and middle. The building is a steel frame structure with a height of 16 stories. The building plane is surrounded by three sides according to the wedge-shaped terrain, and it was originally a spiral three-story garage. The elevation of the wedge end is symmetrical, emphasizing vertical composition, with the middle height and two low, and the wings are stepped and falling, but without any additional lines or patterns, only the feeling of vertical vertical lines is formed by its own body, and the Art Deco style is only slightly reflected in the overall image.

No.7 Hengshan Apartment in hengshan road, built in 1936, was formerly known as Betan Apartment. The building belongs to an apartment with the characteristics of Art Deco style. During the Anti-Japanese War, the apartment was once occupied by Japanese businessmen. In 1946, it was nationalized by the Industrial Processing Bureau of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui Provinces of the National Government. Now it is a residential building.

The apartment is seven stories high, with one staircase and two households, and the space and facade are organized in a symmetrical way. Compared with other higher-grade apartment buildings in the same period, this apartment has infiltrated the simplicity of modernist architectural style, and the center of the south facade is no longer the vertical decorative line used by Art Deco. The design of large bay windows and large rooms shows that the architectural style has gradually given way to practical and economic needs here.

No.811, hengshan road, the "Little Red Mansion" in Xujiahui Park, is the fourth batch of outstanding historical buildings in Shanghai, and a detached garden house with some style characteristics during the Art Nouveau Movement in the West. Because of its red tile roof and red brick walls all over it, it is called "Little Red Mansion". This small building was once the central nerve of EMI.

At the end of 19th century, EMI Records Company landed in Shanghai, and in 1921, it bought the land at No.1434 Xujiahui Road (that is, No.811 hengshan road), set up a record manufacturing company and built the first recording studio in Shanghai. In the past, the Red Chamber was not red now, but the cement on the outer wall was gray. The ground floor of the small building was used for recording and entertainment, and the second floor was the editing room. The third floor is the living room and bedroom of the company boss. On the wall of the ground floor, there is still a picture frame with recording instructions, which was signed in 1983. It is conceivable that the original recording studio was still in use until then.

in 1934, EMI closed down and British businessmen took over. After the Pacific War broke out, it was taken over by the Japanese army. After liberation, Chinese record factories took over. In 1982, China Record Corporation was established, and here is China Record Shanghai Company. The second phase project of Xujiahui Greenland started, and the record company was relocated. Later, Xiaohonglou became a western restaurant.

For quite a long time, Xiaohonglou was the best recording studio in China. Almost all the heavyweights in the history of modern art in China have left their footprints here. Xian Xinghai, Zhou Xuan, Hu Die, Li Xianglan, Mei Lanfang, etc. are all proud to record in Xiaohonglou. The wonderful representative works of the 193s and 194s, such as "Cordate telosma" and "Rose Rose I Love You", were recorded here. In 1931, Nie Er began to work as a music editor in EMI Company, where he created a large number of famous works. Until the last decade or two, many musicians still chose this place as their first choice for recording. The strings and chorus in Tayu Lo's Love Song 2, including A Night in Shanghai, were all completed here.

The architecture of Xiaohonglou is like these music playing a perfect chapter of the integration of Chinese and Western architectural arts, and it is a witness to the history of Chinese records. It is a perfect combination of music and architectural rhythm.

Hengshan Cinema was built in 1951 and opened on January 5, 1952. Chen Yi, then mayor, wrote the name of the cinema. It was the first cinema built in Shanghai after the birth of New China, and it enjoyed the reputation of the only "garden cinema" in Shanghai with its unique courtyard atmosphere. In 21, Shanghai Film Group and Xuhui District Guangqi Culture Communication Company * * * jointly invested, renovated and reopened, and now it is the new Hengshan branch of SFC Shanghai Film Studio.

Hengshan Cinema is quietly located in hengshan road, near Xujiahui business district, opposite Xujiahui Park. With the prosperity of Xujiahui