Riverside Building

The riverside building, known as the "first apartment in the Far East", has been standing on the Suzhou River for nearly a hundred years. In order to "leave the best resources to the people", the North Bund Street took the initiative to let the office space of the neighborhood committee, creating a "hebin living room" that integrates the scenes of deliberation, meeting guests, office, reading, leisure and other scenes.

The riverside building was built in 1932 by the investment of the new sandson foreign bank, the design of the new shen construction plant. During World War II, the riverside building was a reception station for European Jewish refugees to take refuge in Shanghai. Because of its unique modern architectural style, it has also become a location for many film and television works.

"The 90-year-old Riverside Building is a historically protected building, carrying the historical story of one river and one river. Since the addition of 1978, the total household of nearly 700, it was the largest apartment residential building in Shanghai at that time, and was once known as the "first apartment in the Far East".

The riverside building, built in 1935, is located on the riverside of Shanghai North Suzhou. It was the largest apartment and residential building in Shanghai with a total area of single buildings. The owner was a Jewish merchant, Sassoon. When it was built, it was designed in the shape of "S" according to irregular terrain. The building faces the road and is the earliest Suzhou River "water view residence" in Shanghai. After completion, it was called "Asia's first apartment", and modern facilities such as heating, elevator, swimming pool, deep well pump, fire pump are all available. Early mainly for British and American and Spaniards rented, after 1945 the United States Columbia Film Company, MGM Film Company, American Film Association, Lei Dianhua Film Company, Lianmei Film Company and other film industry institutions rented the apartment to set up institutions. After the 1950s, Shanghai Medical College of Traditional Chinese Medicine was founded in the building, and the First People's Hospital of Shanghai had a consultation room here. Film and television works such as "Aunt's Post-Modern Life", "My First Half Life", "Woju" and "Thirty Only" were filmed here. On February 15, 1994, the Shanghai Municipal People's Government announced that the Riverside Apartment was an excellent historical building in Shanghai. After decades of wind and rain, the riverside building has been mottled and vicissitudes of internal environment, and now it is undergoing protective housing repair. It was only after entering the building that I learned that it was the first time I knew that the apartment building was built with a wall shared with the main building to build a nanny building.

The most beautiful architecture and historic features. Learn about this amazing Art Deco building as you wander Suzhou Creek. well worth it.