During the 1980s and 1990s, most of the original buildings on the Bund were rebuilt and rebuilt. Compared with the surrounding buildings, "Jianghai Beiguan" looks shabby. 189 1 year, Shanghai Customs was in power by British Hurd, so British engineers were invited to design it.
Built by Yang Sisheng, a native of Pudong, it was completed in 1893, the 50th anniversary of Shanghai's opening. On the basis of the old site, the plane of the new Jianghai North Pass is basically similar to that of the old pass. It is concave, brick and wood, with a six-story square bell tower in the middle. There are fake four-story buildings on the north and south sides of the bell tower, and iron railings are added to the walls on both sides of the gate.
1925, the new Jianghai North Pass was rebuilt again, designed by Wilson, a designer of HSBC. 65438+February laid the foundation stone,1927+February 9 completed. The building covers an area of 5,722 square meters, with a building area of 32,680 square meters. The building is divided into east and west parts. The east faces the Huangpu River, with a height of 1 1. The main building has eight floors, with three floors and four clock towers on it.
West to Sichuan Middle Road, 5 stories high. It has a steel frame structure. The outer wall at the bottom is wide-seam granite, and the other floors are Jinshan stone. The design of the gate is in the form of an ancient Greek temple. Four classic Greek Doric columns support this huge building. The upper end of the column is square and carved, giving people a sense of sacredness.
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The inscription of the big clock is actually music. At the beginning of the construction, the British held the power of customs, and the British royal song Westminster was selected as the newspaper engraving. 1966 During the Cultural Revolution, the music of Westminster Abbey was changed to Dongfanghong. 1986 Queen Elizabeth II visits Shanghai. At the request of the British Foreign Office, Westminster music was played in the Customs Bell Tower. After expert argumentation, the customs clock resumed playing the music of Dongfanghong on May 1 2003.
"You listen to, for a while, hear a piece of music, two and a half hours, three quarter of an hour, this hour is a complete piece of music. Old Shanghainese just need to listen to the length of the music to know what time it is. " Wei Yun Temple said.
Wei Yun Temple remembers that when I was young, I stood on the bell tower and looked at Pudong, a piece of green farmland. "At that time, there was no such high house in Shanghai, and the bell of the customs building could reach Wusongkou Wharf eastward." After the development and opening up of Pudong, landmark buildings such as the Oriental Pearl were built under his eyes. "It seems that every day, the Huangpu River is a little different."
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