Before it became Cathay it was Carlton

This 1930 drawing by the architect Charles Henry Gonda depicts the theatre we came to know as the Cathay:

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Architect K. H. Suhr

No one writes about the architect Karsten Hermann Suhr (苏尔洋行), although he was quite active in the 1930s in Shanghai, Hangzhou and Tianjin and…
Strange Shanghai in the 1980s, by Benoit Gysembergh

This black and white set of photographs from the 1980s makes Shanghai look like a mashup of pre-1949 era with our times. What's with the…
The architect Charles Henry Gonda

Source: minguotupian.com. This is a portrait of C. H. Gonda, the Hungarian architect behind many Shanghai movie theatres, office buildings and…