#82 Shanghai Architecture Series: Sino-Soviet Friendship Palace (in Russian)

Posts from This Journal “1950s” Tag

• Lev Valentinovich Arnoldov (1894–1957), a Russian journalist

  A sojourn in Berlin on the invitation of the Staatsbibliothek has opened some wonderful sources and led to exciting discoveries. One of them was the…

• A surprising art deco map of Shanghai (1955)

  Click to see the map in hi-res (7.8 Mb): Closeup of the downtown: Many old mansions have become Cultural and Workers' Clubs:…

• Shanghai plane trees narrowly escape disappearance

  "The most commonly planted street trees in Shanghai were London plane trees, a type of hybrid chinar that accounted for 87% of all street…