At the beginning of its birth, Sammy building was successively the seat of Sammy foreign bank, Shanghai Trust and other companies.
The transformed Shami building is no longer just a “good film” photography stand for young people, but an entrance to understand and experience the Bund.
Reclining on the balcony of the hotel, there are busy urban traffic at the foot, and residents on the left and right are hanging clothes and basking in the sun.
Zhang Ailing doesn’t like socializing, but she likes to stand on the balcony and overlook the lively life in Shanghai.
In June 1928, A western restaurant called dengtuomo (Dinty Moore Cafe) opened on the ground floor of the Sammy building, which once became a landmark leading the lifestyle of Shanghai style.
Today, the mysterious building has been repaired and designed by Huajian historical conservation Institute for five years.
In the last two months, you must have been swiped by “the most beautiful balcony in the magic capital”.
As soon as the news came out, many people wanted to enter it to find out.
Light and shadow flow on the stone wall spanning a century, emitting classical romance.
It has been vacant for more than 20 years and has only recently reopened to the outside world.
Open the window, the classical buildings on the Bund are close at hand, and the “four piece set” of Lujiazui in the distance is also clearly visible.
The exterior stone finish retains the original style, reflecting the typical British neoclassicism style.
Silent riding together and looking back before leaving all take place in the narrow space of this iron grid elevator.
Located on the second to sixth floors, the hotel retains the texture of the old building itself and carefully repairs and restores the details of the building.
Building enthusiasts carry photographic equipment, step through the ruins of bricks and rubble, grope for steps in the dark, and go up steps, trying their best to see its true face.
Live in a room with beautiful scenery on the Bund, turn on the vinyl player, play a jazz, and visit an avant-garde art exhibition in a century old building.
The six storey building was built and designed for the French businessman Sassoon Solomon Sammy with the joint efforts of Ying Ziyun, a well-known Ningbo businessman in Shanghai, yingshangtong and a foreign firm.
Even if it is so small that it is difficult to turn around, it must be.
Many young people punch in the old buildings, but few really live on the Bund.
It is located in a prime location.
The two banks of the Pujiang River, which alternate between the old and the new and have different styles, are intertwined and integrated in the field of vision.
Up to the atrium garden on the third floor, dozens of arched glass windows surround a more than 4m high patio.
The wall has not been deliberately refreshed, showing an original mottled state.
It may be the most mysterious building on the Bund.
Balcony is one of the essence of Shanghai style architecture.
There are many luxury hotels on the Bund, almost all of which are equipped with tall French windows for viewing.
A circle of lamp balls hung under the semicircular arch hole at the entrance, inspired by the profit and loss of the moon, pay tribute to the 100 years of experience of the Sammy building.
In this reconstruction, the elevator in the past was restored and the original cast iron carving was used.
02 in the balcony closest to the Bund, there are magic skyline and market smoke, fire and gas.
The sun fell from the glass dome and was cut by the clock like iron frame, flashing solemn and sacred beauty.
But the old balcony of the Sammy building has a different style.
After more than 700 days of construction and decoration after the settlement of zhotel, it is finally open to the public again.
At that time, many foreign bank staff working nearby liked to eat.
Although the building has been closed in recent years The vacant state of has never faded out of people’s sight.
As a silent recorder of history, it has stood on the changeable Bund for a hundred years.
In greater Shanghai, Yuan Quan, who is already a woman, meets Chow Yun fat in the elevator.
Entering the slowly rising car is like embarking on a journey to the old times.
On the contrary, it has gradually become the most mysterious “Shanghai beach legend” because of its excellent geographical location overlooking the Bund and Lujiazui skyline.
The romance and openness of Shanghai often come from this small balcony.
Many movie scenes about old Shanghai flash through my mind.
I can’t help thinking of Zhang Ailing’s former residence Changde apartment, which also has such a similar European balcony.
Stepping into the atrium on the first floor, the newly created metal staircase rotates and winds.
Standing here, you can have a panoramic view of the classical European architecture on the Bund and the Lujiazui skyline.
The external stone walls and carvings are beautiful, but the interior is semi deserted.
Here, we can feel the customs of Shanghai at a close distance.
In the sky, the tram is coming and going..
The reopened Shami building has maintained its original appearance as much as possible, so that we can see how the Shanghai style aesthetics 100 years ago is old-fashioned and still has an timeless charm today.
Sammy building is the first batch of buildings in Shanghai to use elevators.
After the founding of the people’s Republic of China, the Sammy building was nationalized.
The Sammy building, the rebirth of the old building, was completed in 1921 and has just gone through a century of reincarnation.
Curves and reliefs are used in many places, and Baroque mountain flowers are used for decoration, which looks classical and solemn.
At four o’clock in the afternoon, the sun was shining.
In the mood for love, there is such an elevator in the apartment where Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung live, shaking in the dim lights and ambiguous feelings.
A panoramic view of the prosperity and fireworks of the city.
It turns out that trendy life and historical buildings can coexist.
As I walked up the steps, I looked up.
Hu Lancheng wrote that he went to see her for the first time: “outside the balcony is all Shanghai.
The first and second floors have successively become office buildings of many units, and nearly 100 residents live in the apartments upstairs.
It has not only welcomed countless business and political elites, but also carried the memory of the life of the older generation of Shanghainese.
To everyone’s surprise, hidden in the Centennial building is a brand-new hotel Z hotel.
The new and the old, facing each other in the same picture, constitute the background color of Shanghai’s diversity.
The most praised building is the balcony closest to the Bund.
The balcony is located in the century old historical building “shamei building” at the intersection of East Beijing Road and Middle Sichuan Road.
