Some people say that the Bund is the eye of Shanghai and the business card of Shanghai. In today's Bund, there is such a building. Its elegant and graceful posture, peace and charm, all show the extraordinary identity of the owner of this building. This building is closely related to telegraph, which witnessed the long course of China telegraph industry from wired to wireless, from manual to automatic. Today, let's get to know the Dabei Telegraph Company Building located at No.7 Dongyi Road, Zhongshan City.
The building itself
Building 7, Zhongshan Dongyi Road, was originally the building of Dabei Telegraph Company, designed by British Buscom and foreign companies, and completed on 1908. Five floors, brick-concrete structure, covering an area of 1562, with a building area of about 4060. 1982, Dabei Telegraph Company, a joint venture of Dannoying, Dannoying and Anglo-Norwegian Telegraph Company, established the first telephone exchange in Shanghai. After the renovation of 1994, the building was used for the business and office of Pangu Bank. The first floor is the bank lobby, and the second to fifth floors are the offices.
The architecture of the Northern Telegraph Company is in the style of the late French Renaissance, which abandons the complicated texture and decoration, simplifies the lines and is more concise and pure. The bottom two layers of the facade are paved with stone, and the upper layer is painted with water. With the main entrance of Aiduoya Road as the longitudinal axis, the two sides of the building are symmetrical. The whole building is divided into three different styles of horizontal planes: one to two floors, three to six floors and more than seven floors. The exterior wall is covered with smooth stone, forming an architectural appearance with horizontal lines as the main part, which makes the whole building look elegant, symmetrical, harmonious and stable.
The lobby of the Northern Telegraph Company Building adopts the main colors common in European styles, such as gold, yellow and dark red, which are mixed with white to make the colors look bright and generous. The whole internal space is open and inclusive, and it is not cramped at all. Some local Celtic decorations, patterns and Viking decorative symbols reveal a strong Nordic style, indicating that this place once belonged to a Danish company.
Among the buildings on the Bund, Dabei Telegraph Company Building is small but very stylish. The biggest highlight of the building is the black dome design of Rococo art style at both ends of the top, which is in sharp contrast with the white wall. This has also become the landmark decoration of this building.
1996165438+10. As a member of the Bund complex, Dabei Telegraph Company Building was announced as a national key cultural relics protection unit.
Building renovation
1994 protection of Dabei telegraph company building and upgrading of internal equipment. The building is a brick-concrete structure, and its floor and top floor are all made of wood. Among them, the top wooden structure members are seriously damaged and the wall ends are decayed; Long-term moisture of brick wall leads to peeling on the surface; The aging of buildings caused internal damage of some masonry structures, and many vertical cracks appeared in brick walls. The internal structure of the building can not meet the requirements of the current seismic structure.
Based on the principle of coexistence of protection and authenticity, the repair team replaced the damaged structural members, strengthened the earthquake, and designed the decoration in combination with the original interior style.
Wall painting, a kind of crystal clear exterior wall coating, is used for facade renovation. According to the original style, the windows on the fa? ade were replaced with black aluminum alloy windows, and the wooden railings were replaced with new ones. Stainless steel flagpoles and light boxes are added to the main facade and entrance of the building. In addition, bronze decorative glass doors were designed for the main entrance and the north gate according to the logo of Pangu Bank, and the positions of the two doors and windows on the north facade were adjusted. The middle part (five floors) of the building roof has been added and rebuilt. Sandwich panels are used to make a black iron sloping roof with external windows like tig.
After this renovation, the facade of the building has been protected and repaired, and the newly designed gate and interior decoration design of the building are in harmony with the historical features. In the process of structural repair, the seismic performance of buildings has been improved.
Architectural story
In China, Shanghai is the first city to open telegraph service to the public. 65438-0869 Danish Dabei Telegraph Company is composed of three joint companies: Danish-Norwegian Telegraph Company, Danish-Russian Telegraph Company and Norwegian-British Telegraph Company, and its headquarters is in Copenhagen, Denmark. 187 1 year, Dabei Telegraph Company successfully laid submarine cables from Hong Kong to Shanghai and Nagasaki, Japan via Dajinshan Island in the Yangtze River estuary, and officially started telegraph business on the Bund on April 18 of that year.
From 65438 to 0947, with the introduction of foreign telegraph technology, China people gradually realized the importance of telegraph communication, including the Westernization School headed by Li Hongzhang. 1880, 16 In September, he personally wrote the book "Please set up a telegram for the South and North Oceans" and played it. Two days later, he was approved by the Qing government. 18811February 28th, 1500km Tianjin-Shanghai telegraph line was officially completed and opened to traffic. This is the earliest self-built public telegraph circuit in China, the beginning of Shanghai's own telecommunications industry, and the beginning of China people mastering telecommunications sovereignty on their own land. Since then, China's telegraph industry has entered a new period of vigorous development.
At the beginning of the 20th century, with the expansion of business, Dabei Telegraph Company was short of office space rented at No.7 Bund, so in 2008, it bought the land at No.4 Aiduoya Road (now No.34 Yan 'an East Road) for 2 19 18200 silver, and prepared to build its own new telegraph business building. At that time, the telegraph industry was a relatively new product all over the world, so Dabei Telegraph Company chose Xinrui and Yang Hang, an old firm pursuing avant-garde spirit, to design and build this building.
After the completion of the building, except for the self-use of Dabei Telegraph Company, some floors were leased to British Cable TV Company and American Pacific Telegraph Company, and the building became a veritable "telegraph office building". After the founding of the Republic of China, with the relocation of the three major telegraph offices, Shanghai Urban Traffic Management Bureau, Shanghai Public Utilities Bureau, Shanghai Red Cross Society and other government departments have settled in the building. After entering the 2 1 century, in order to better protect this excellent historical building and tell the development history of Shanghai telecom industry, China Telecom Shanghai Company transformed the 1 4 floors of the building into Shanghai Telecom Museum, which officially opened on June 23, 20 10.
Building punching point
The bronze statue of Edward Svencen
When entering the building, the first thing you see is the bronze statue of Edward Svencen at the entrance. He was not only the first general manager of Dabei Telegraph Office, but also helped to compile China's code book "New Telegraph Office", so he was known as "the Dane who introduced the telegraph office to China". In the 1960s, with the withdrawal of the Great Northern Telegraph Company from Shanghai, the bronze statue was shipped back to Denmark. After half a century, it was relocated in the original niche as a gift donated by Dabei Telegraph Company to Shanghai Telecom Museum in June, 201/.
Bronze statue of human bird wings
The wings of this bird symbolizing human beings originate from Mount Goruda, one of the Hindu gods, and are also the image of the national emblem of Thailand. The Thai royal family often awards this symbol as a very high honor to outstanding companies. Pangu Bank, founded by China people, was given this colorful Dapeng bird on 1967 because of its great contribution to the Thai economy.
The black dome roof of this building.
The highlight of the building is a pair of black domes in French Baroque style, which are elegantly located on both sides of the top, in sharp contrast with the white mountain flowers. Here, you can overlook the scenery of Pujiang.
Business?Hours?
Address: No.7, Zhongshan Dongyi Road
* * *: Saturday and Sunday (the opening hours of national holidays will be notified separately)
Morning: 9: 30-12: 00 (11:00)
Afternoon: 13: 00- 16: 30 (entrance 16: 00 station)
Group: Tuesday to Friday (the opening hours of national holidays will be announced separately)
(Reservation must be made five working days in advance, and it will take effect after confirmation by the library. )
Appointment telephone number: 021-3331112.
Shanghai Federation
Shanghai Federation of Trade Unions Building is the former Bank of Communications Building, which was designed by Hongda Foreign Firm and built by Tao Fuji Construction Factory. 1947. It is a decorative art style and an excellent historical building in Shanghai. The first floor of the building is an exhibition hall named "Leader of the Times-Theme Exhibition of Shanghai Model Workers" carefully planned by Shanghai Federation of Trade Unions. Exhibits of 140 model workers, 348 photos and 92 videos were displayed in the form of stories, pictures and objects.
Address: No.0/4, Dongyi Road, Zhongshan.
Opening hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday,10: 30-1:00, 14:00- 14:30.
Appointment method: "Huangpu Shanghai" WeChat official account
Shanghai Brush-pen and ink Museum
The pen and ink museum is located in Wenhua Street, Fuzhou Road. This small museum introduces the history of ink manufacturing and tells the story of ink migration to Shanghai. Cao Sugong (founded in 1667) and Zhou Huchen (founded in 1694) listed in the national intangible cultural heritage list are displayed in the museum.
Opening hours:10: 00-16: 00 (15: 45).
Address: No.429 Fuzhou Road, Huangpu District
Peripheral perforation point
Into the Bund buildings: Shanghai Archives, Shanghai Telecom Museum, Peace Hotel, Bund Historical Memorial Hall, Yuanmingyuan Road Pedestrian Street.