The gate is designed as a square door opening with square pilasters on both sides, and there is a pair of tower pillars inside the door opening.
The lobby space on the first floor of the building is high and spacious, supported by two rows of Ionic style giant columns, with a double-layer daylighting glass skylight.
The eaves above the fifth floor are overhanging, with obvious decorative rafters, and the main facade is simple yet elegant.
Address: Shamei Building, No.
The Salt Industry Building, the former shadow of the Salt Industry Building, is simple in appearance and neat in composition, which is in the style of Neoclassical architecture.
The south facade of the building is divided into three spans, with a symmetrical center and a simple atmosphere.
The building is centered along the south facade of Beijing East Road as the main entrance.
In 1991, the upper part of the building was expanded to a 7-story building.
In 1931, the self built building of Yien Yieh Commercial Bank Shanghai Branch was completed and delivered for use at No.
The facade decoration is concentrated in the street area on the ground floor, the middle of the facade, the eaves, and the corners of the wall.
The first building in the surrounding building was first built in 1924, originally consisting of 5 floors above ground and a partial basement.
The exterior decoration of the building is simple, and the corners are decorated with corner stones.
These bank buildings are elegant and solemn, giving people an open and inclusive manner.
It is a classical style building with simple geometric patterns in some parts.
The craftsmanship is exquisite and the design is exquisite.
of each layer.
In terms of facade treatment, there is a strong emphasis on the entrance axis, which is reinforced by the complex carvings below the triple eaves and arched gable waistline
.
280, Beijing East Road.
The vertical staircase above the main entrance of the south facade and the dome of the tower at the top of the corner have added changes in the law, making the facade more vivid and active.
It not only adopts the Classicism division of “three horizontal and three vertical” on the exterior facade of the building, but also uses Classicism elements in the moldings, window covers, doorways, etc.
In the east section of Beijing East Road, there are rows of Chinese bank buildings.
The building is a five storey cast-in-place reinforced concrete beam, slab and column structure system building, which is later covered with seven floors.
The plot where the building is located is a rectangular shape that is narrow from east to west and wide from north to south.
The building faces north and south, with the central gate as the central axis and symmetrical on both sides; The eaves of the first and second floors are designed with waistlines, dividing the first and above floors to enhance the three-dimensional visual effect of the building.
Today, let’s take a look at one of them, the Yien Yieh Commercial Bank Building.
270, Beijing East Road, was completed in 1921, with 5 floors above the ground and 6 floors locally.
There are spacious corridors around each level of the courtyard, and the top layer of the courtyard has a ceiling.
In order to increase ventilation and lighting, the building’s floor plan is in a “loop” shape, with a courtyard in the middle.
