With the launch of the "Year of France", the Sino-French cultural exchange year, Shanghai, known as the "Paris of the East", is being shrouded in an increasingly strong "French" atmosphere this spring.
In Shanghai, many French-style old buildings, although many years have passed, are still hidden in the green trees in a perfect posture. During the long vacation, if you have leisure time, you might as well take advantage of the atmosphere of the French Culture Year to enjoy an authentic French architectural "big meal" and listen to the classic stories brought by those old houses.
Guotai Cinema: Old Koehler chased girls that year.
This cinema, written repeatedly by Zhang Ailing, is located at the corner of Maoming Road on Huaihai Road. It was originally named Guotai Theatre. 1930 starts construction and will be completed by the end of next year. Covering an area of 1559 m2, with reinforced concrete structure. The exterior wall is made of Taishan brick and filled with purple sauce. Like Jinjiang Hotel, it belongs to French architecture.
The interior of this building is very spectacular. There are no pillars in the whole projection hall, and the space is extremely wide. No matter which seat the audience looks at, it is very comfortable. In addition, the air conditioning of the theater and the two upright lamp posts on the left and right sides of the stage complement each other with the bowl lamps on the left and right steps in the venue, which is very imposing.
1 93265438+1October1day, Guotai Cinema officially opened to the public. On that day, the slogan published in Shenbao was: magnificent, leading the ears of Shanghai cinemas, exquisite and comfortable, integrated with modern science. At first, the cinema was dedicated to MGM films, and the film released on the opening day was Soul of Freedom. By June, 1933, after the opening of the new Great Bright Film with an investment of more than one million yuan, MGM's film rights were seized by Great Bright, and Cathay Pacific switched to Warner and Columbia films.
Watching movies was a fashionable activity in those days, and chasing girls by watching movies was a common means of "Old Koehler" in those days. Cathay Pacific is favored because it is located in Joffrey Street (now Huaihai Middle Road).
Shanghai Concert Hall: the first air-conditioned cinema in Shanghai.
Shanghai Concert Hall, which was founded in 1930, has been known as "Paris Opera House in Shanghai" for its good acoustic effects and western European classical architectural features for decades. Shanghai Concert Hall, formerly known as Nanjing Grand Theatre, was renamed Beijing Cinema on 1949. This is the first cinema in Shanghai to show foreign films. Universal Studios musical Broadway premiered that year. 1959, officially changed to Shanghai Concert Hall.
1989 was listed as an excellent building protection unit in modern Shanghai.
At that time, the Nanjing Grand Theatre was invested by American merchant companies and designed by China Design Teachers College. Fan graduated from St. John's University and went to Pennsylvania State University to major in architectural design. Nanjing Grand Theatre is a model for China designers to build western classical architecture.
This grand theater was the best among the first-class cinemas at that time. The pillars of baroque buildings, Spanish shapes, Roman teak doors and windows, halls, stairs and cloisters are all decorated with marble. It is also the first air-conditioned cinema in Shanghai.
No.9 Dongping Road: Chiang Kai-shek inscribed "Ai Lu"
This building is located on Dongping Road, near hengshan road. It was once the former residence of Chiang Kai-shek and Song Meiling's newly-married house, and was given to Song Meiling by Song Ziwen as a dowry. This French garden house consists of a main building and two annex buildings. Now this building and garden have become part of the middle school attached to Shanghai Conservatory of Music. The East Annex Building is the administrative office building of the school. The second floor on the east side of the main building used to be the bedroom and bathroom of Chiang Kai-shek and Song Meiling. There is a secret tunnel that can reach the outside of the building in an emergency. Now the dormitory and bathroom have been connected, which has become a classroom for students to practice the piano, leaving only the back passage.
On the rockery in the garden south of the main building, the word "Ailu" inscribed by Chiang Kai-shek is engraved. Chiang Kai-shek called Lushan Guling Villa "a beautiful house", Hangzhou West Lake Villa "Lu Cheng" and Shanghai Villa "Ailu", which shows his love for this villa.
There are more than one garden villa 10 left by Song, Kong, Chen Lifu and Chen around "Ailu". There are bars at the intersection now, and some ancillary buildings have opened stores. There are freshly ground coffee, Swiss hot pot, French dinner, cigars and red wine, and sunshine cut into strips by French windows.
Changde Apartment: Zhang Ailing's Former Residence in Shanghai
Changde Apartment, the former residence of Zhang Ailing in the 1940s, has recently put up a nameplate, which has been protected as a celebrity apartment.
Located at Changde Road 195, this French apartment building was built in the early 1930s and named Eddington Apartment. Zhang Ailing lived here in Room 605 for seven years.
194 1 At the end of the year, Zhang Ailing came to live here from Hong Kong and officially started her writing career. Zhang Ailing has completed a series of novels here, such as Love in the City, agarwood crumbs-the first incense burner, agarwood crumbs-the second incense burner, The Golden Lock, Blockade, Heart Sutra and Flower Xie. This is also the apartment where she has lived for the longest time in Shanghai.
According to the residents of Changde apartment, over the years, fans of Zhang Ailing at home and abroad have often come to pay their respects. Many readers and tourists feel very sorry that they can't go upstairs and sit in Zhang Ailing's apartment and feel her life in those days. Many people can only take photos in front of Changde apartment. With the protection of the apartment, a cafe will be built downstairs where Zhang Ailing often drinks coffee, and a gallery will be built to introduce Zhang Ailing's life, giving fans more room for imagination and memory.
Brother Building on Nanjing West Road: the former residence of the boss of Yongan Company
The office building of Foreign Affairs Office of Shanghai Municipal People's Government (hereinafter referred to as "Foreign Affairs Office") located at No.0/400 Nanjing West Road is adjacent to Portman Hotel. Two three-story French buildings with similar styles are the residences of Guo Le, the former boss of Shanghai Yongan Company, and Guo Shun, his younger brother. People are used to calling these two buildings "brother buildings".
Guo Le, a Guangdong native, works in a fruit wholesale bank in Australia. Ma Biao, the owner of the wholesale bank, is the owner of Shixian Company, and will open a business opposite Yongan Company in the future. Guo Le later moved from Hong Kong to Shanghai, registered Yongan Company, chose the intersection of Nanjing East Road and Zhejiang Road, built a large department store Universal Pictures, and built Yongan Company on the opposite side. That land was Harbin's real estate in those days, so Guo Le has always maintained a long-term cooperative relationship with Harbin. When I built an apartment for myself, I took the land from the place opposite Harbin Aili Garden, which was called Xiajiazhai.
The design of Brother Building was handed over to Gonghe Foreign Firm, which designed and supervised the buildings of union buildings and hankou road Industrial and Information Bureau at No.4 Bund. The appearance of the "Brother Building" has quite the architectural style of the French Renaissance. But because the owners and builders are both from China, they still have the traditional three-cabin aircraft in China. Now, it has been listed as an excellent protected building in modern Shanghai.
Advocate the beauty of conflict
French architecture pays attention to embellishment in nature, regardless of the size of the area, and pursues color and internal connection, which makes people feel that there is a lot of room for activities. However, sometimes the conflict between the building and the surrounding environment is intentional. Therefore, French architecture often advocates the beauty of conflict rather than simple coordination.
Another feature of French architectural style is strict grasp of the whole building and good at carving details. For example, La Villette Park in Paris, Pompidou Art Center, I.M. Pei's pyramid, and Germany are typical representatives of this style.
French architecture attaches great importance to elegance, nobility and romance. It is based on the consideration of the ideal scene, pursuing the poetic and poetic environment of the building, and striving to give people a profound infection in temperament. French architecture is classic, not fashionable, and it has been preserved after hundreds of years of historical screening and time polishing. Buildings in Paris and other cities have experienced hundreds of years of architectural age, which embodies the genius and wisdom of countless great architects. The style of French architecture in China can be traced back to the beginning of last century, or even further. Since 1980s, the French architectural style has fully recovered from south to north in China and Europe, which has become a major landscape of the property market.
interconnection
The French villa on Fenyang Road at Fenyang Road 150 was originally commissioned by the famous American Klee architectural firm at that time to be built by wealthy French businessmen, and its style followed the characteristics of the French Renaissance.
The design and construction started from 19 19, and was not completed until 1930. At that time, people called it "the French house on Bixun Road (now Fenyang Road)". "Bi Xun" was the name of the French consul in China at that time. This French villa, once Bai Chongxi's residence, later became the Shanghai China Painting Academy, and in the 1960s it became the Shanghai Yue Theatre, and now there is a restaurant in it.
Tang Mansion is located at No.35, Lane 2023, Sichuan North Road. Built in the 1920s. It is a French neoclassical style building with elegant appearance and magnificent momentum. After the end of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, it became Tang's residence.
Other famous French buildings in Shanghai include the representative works of French gardens, such as Ruijin Hotel, Shannan Zhuang, Garden Hotel, Jinjiang Hotel, Grand Mansion and Fuxing Park.