Whenever this surfaces, I am reminded of one of questions I still have about my favorite building in Shanghai: why and when exactly did the I.S.S. Apartments, as it was called in the first few years, become the Normandy, and later even the Normandie?
Normandie revisited, over and over
Whenever this surfaces, I am reminded of one of questions I still have about my favorite building in Shanghai: why and when exactly did the I.S.S. Apartments, as it was called in the first few years, become the Normandy, and later even the Normandie?
Posts from This Journal “normandie” Tag
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The Normandie featured a book by Chen Danyan
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/NWoj8AFOFY-gvBasTsWhxQ I don't know if our family is also in the book, but she came to interview us in 2016:
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Nostalgia from the early 2000s
Judging by the bicycles, white shorts, car models and the very few aircons on the facade of the Normandie 武康大楼, this is just around the year 2000:…
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An understated masterpiece from 1930: I.S.S. (Normandie) Annex and Garage
This architectural drawing shows the proposed Annex to the I.S.S. Apartments and the innovative two-story garage with a ramp, by Lèdreaux…
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