Hamilton House - Shanghai - 1933
Cnr Foochow Rd & Szechuen Rd, Shanghai.
Hamilton House is one of twin identical buildings (the other being the Metropole Hotel (1934) - see my photo at www.flickr.com/photos/23268776@N03/6328407491 ) at this junction which were designed by the prolific Shanghai-based architect, George 'Tug' Wilson of Messrs Palmer & Turner. Commissioned for Sir Victor Sassoon, Hamilton House was built in the Art-Deco style; it accommodated offices on the first three floors with luxury apartments occupying the upper floors. The penthouse apartments also had access to roof gardens, given the massed stepping at the top of the building. Faced in Soochow granite, this building would not look out of place in Chicago or New York.
The junction - previously known as Municipal Square - is an excellent example of urban architectural planning; as well as the twin buildings, the junction is graced by the complementary styles of the similar Commercial Bank of China (1936) and the earlier Shanghai Municipal Council Building (1922) - see my photo at www.flickr.com/photos/23268776@N03/2859668998 .
Hamilton House - Shanghai - 1933
Cnr Foochow Rd & Szechuen Rd, Shanghai.
Hamilton House is one of twin identical buildings (the other being the Metropole Hotel (1934) - see my photo at www.flickr.com/photos/23268776@N03/6328407491 ) at this junction which were designed by the prolific Shanghai-based architect, George 'Tug' Wilson of Messrs Palmer & Turner. Commissioned for Sir Victor Sassoon, Hamilton House was built in the Art-Deco style; it accommodated offices on the first three floors with luxury apartments occupying the upper floors. The penthouse apartments also had access to roof gardens, given the massed stepping at the top of the building. Faced in Soochow granite, this building would not look out of place in Chicago or New York.
The junction - previously known as Municipal Square - is an excellent example of urban architectural planning; as well as the twin buildings, the junction is graced by the complementary styles of the similar Commercial Bank of China (1936) and the earlier Shanghai Municipal Council Building (1922) - see my photo at www.flickr.com/photos/23268776@N03/2859668998 .