🏠 Building name: Ampere Foreign Trade Co., Ltd 🌃 Year of Construction: 1908 📍 Detailed address: No.
Now it has moved out.
DCA studio commissioned factories in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces to customize them during the building repair· The interior of the building is high and open, and the average height of each floor is more than 4 meters.
The facade adopts deformed classical decorative symbols locally; Three round towers are set at both ends of the main facade, with a round terrace on the top.
The above information comes from the field visit in February 2022 and June 2022..
97, Yuanmingyuan Road 📝 Designer: Tonghe Yanghang ⏰ Open information: not open to the public for the time being.
At present, the purpose of the building is unknown.
There are four floors on the left and right.
🧩 Supplement 1: generally, people with titles can use the queenannestylearchitecture, which is a symbol of power and power.
❇️ It is recommended that the whole Bund source area is nearby.
Each floor has three columns of windows.
Now the red bricks are different in depth, the old bricks are darker and darker, and the new bricks are whiter.
You can follow the applet “Rockbund source” ⭐ Architectural highlights: facing east from west, brick wood mixed structure, early office building, Queen Anne’s revival style· Plane rectangle, four stories high, sloping roof; The three section symmetrical composition of the facade is mainly composed of clear water red bricks· The entrance is arranged in the middle, and the central gate and the upper three floors of the wall are slightly convex outward, emphasizing the vertical composition; The buildings on both sides are strictly symmetrical.
There are two buildings in the style of Queen Anne in the source area of thebund, namely, ampere foreign firm and Yuanmingyuan apartment next door.
🧩 Supplement 2: the red bricks of ampere foreign firm have been seriously weathered and damaged in decades of use.
The forms of windows vary.
The central staircase on the first floor is the main feature of the interior of the building.
The handrails, handrails and stair floors of the main stairs are made of wood, with exquisite flowers; The auxiliary stairs are made of reinforced concrete 📖 Architectural story: · as a commercial office building, it has experienced many users successively, among which the more well-known ones are Aird foreign bank (settled in 1913 at the latest), Yangzi real estate banking company, Shanghai certified Pilots Association, etc· In 1940, Swiss ampere foreign firm was established here and named ampere foreign firm building accordingly; At the same time, some foreign firms such as borostov, Huajia, Xingyi, XieHua and the rubber industry association worked in the building· After the end of World War II in 1945, the Panama legation set up an embassy on the second floor· In 2014, christie’s (christie’s, the old translation of Christie’s auction house) settled in ampere foreign house.
