Architecture is a mirror of life
You just need to turn your attention to architecture
To feel the existence of the past
The spirit of a place
They are the reflection of society
— I.M. Pei
When the autumn sunlight gently falls on the villas in the Hankou townhouses, illuminating the red tiles and gray walls, with the past flowing on it, leaving many stories behind.
A century ago, Hankou opened a port to trade, and the modern modern urban civilization merged and symbiosis here, and Western architecture also connected a whole Hankou historical landscape area. With their unique urban texture, they witnessed the tremendous changes in modern Wuhan.
Modern people call it "Museum of Architecture of All Nations".
1862 Jian 1, Jianghanguan was officially established, and this year it has been exactly 160 years.
, and the real Jianghan Pass building was built only after 60 years of construction. After bidding in Shanghai, the design of Simpson by Shanghai Stivadas Sbass Company was selected. It took two years to complete and was completed in 1924.
Building covers an area of 1499 square meters and has a construction area of 4359 square meters. It walks classical architecture style , solemn and elegant.
Main building materials are granite and reinforced concrete. The main building has 4th floor and the bell tower has 5th floor, with a total height of 45.85 meters. When it was first completed, the Jianghan Pass building in became the tallest building in Wuhan, , standing next to the river, full of majesty.
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Classicist architectural design emphasizes the central axis and emphasizes left and right symmetry. Therefore, classical architecture is also called the representative of rational beauty.
is quite tacitly understood that, far away in London, England, the St. Paul Cathedral , which is also a classical architectural style, was built in the 17th century and was once the tallest building overlooking fog city .
Classical architectural style also emphasizes columnar style. If we trace it deeper, it is actually inseparable from the influence of the "original origin of classical culture" Ancient Greek and Ancient Roman .
The main facade of Jianghanguan Building is 7 rooms. There are Corinthian columns in the middle. The facades on the east and west sides are basically the same, each with 6 rooms. There are Corinthian columns in the middle. The three-sided stigma are decorated with the shape of honeysuckle grass leaves, shaped like a flower basket full of flowers and plants.
"Corinth" is a city-state in ancient Greece. Temple of Zeus in Athens uses Corinthian column . This column shaped fine and well-proportioned, gorgeous and delicate, and has been popular all the way from the Renaissance to this day.
Streaming for a moment, Huabiao thousand years.
Some people say that architecture is the clock of time. Every brick and tile of the building hides legends, and we also have the opportunity to truly touch the temperature of legends.
Siming Bank is an early new-style bank for commercial offices in China. In 1908, (the 34th year of the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty) was established. The head office is located on Ningbo Road, Shanghai, and has branches in Wuhan, Nanjing, Ningbo and other places. It is known as " small four-line " together with China Industrial Bank , China Commercial Bank and China National Bank .
Siming Bank Hankou Branch was established in 1918. The Bank Building was built in 1934 and completed in 1936. The Bank Building was written by Lu Yongbiao, a famous pioneer architectural designer in modern China. This is a practice of the modern Art-Deco architectural style in China, and it is also a milestone successful exploration.
Deco style (also known as art deco style) originated in France in the 1920s and flourished in the United States. It is a style that transitions from neoclassical to modernism, with vertical lines, geometric applications, and ladder-shaped shapes as the most distinctive features.
Empire State Building in New York and International Hotel in Shanghai are both completed under the design concept of Art-Deco. Art-Deco not only has an influence in the field of architecture, but also widely used in jewelry, painting, furniture, clothing and other fields.
Look back at the Hankou Branch of Siming Bank, the building is 5 floors high, 7 floors locally, and 1 floor underground. The exterior facade of the building is symmetrical in the central axis, the vertical lines are clean and neat, and the middle is a stair-shaped tower, and the geometric figures condense the beauty of simplicity. The entire building is tall and tough and extraordinary.
At that time, foreigners demarcated concessions and built villas in this area, and Siming Bank Hankou Branch was the first reinforced concrete building designed by Chinese architects in Hankou .
From the beginning of design to the end of the dust, Lu Yongbiao, as a pathfinder in the development of modern China's architecture, has overcome all obstacles and the difficulty is unimaginable. He actively accepted the new Western ideas and created works, outlined his imagination on the drawings of us Chinese. When the Hankou Branch of Siming Bank became the highest bank building at that time, he was indeed "competitive"!
Xuan Palace Hotel has a variety of charm, Hankou domestic shopping mall site (now the center department store) carriages and horses are everywhere, The eclectic technique combining Western classical and modern is fully displayed in this building. To put it simply, it is very "light luxury" here, whether in the past or present.
Time enters the painting, and years become poetry. Nowadays, the skyscrapers are rushing to break through the skyline, and it is still in a hurry and still maintains the elegant tone that belongs to the Republic of China period.
It is designed by the British Jingming Foreign Company, with 6 floors above the ground and a total construction area of 9,800 square meters. is the largest commercial building in Hankou in modern times, and is larger than the World Cup football stadium. Its layout design refers to the famous old Yong'an company building in Shanghai, with the L-shaped skyline design, which once shocked the Asian architectural community.
The arc-shaped viewing balcony looks light and lively, forming a charming contrast with the neatly cut geometric lines. The whole building is concave and convex. From a distance, it looks very different from the same distance, and it is full of modern charm.
Half is a gorgeous and noble top-notch hotel, and half is a fashionable shopping mall where all walks of life are rushing to. The two kings join forces to sit in the "No. 1 pedestrian street in the world", which is the absolute pride of Wuhan people.
Reference materials:
1. The official website of Jianghanguan Museum
2. Jianghanguan Museum [WeChat Public Platform]
3. Research and protection of modern Chinese architecture "Lu Yongbiao, a famous pioneer architect in modern Wuhan"
4. Voice of Jianghan [WeChat Public Platform]
5. Some construction information comes from the Internet
