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68 Yongfu Road; 91 and 93 West Fuxing Road, Xuhui, Shanghai

Liangyou Apartments

良友公寓

Homes within a wedge-shaped corner

Liangyou extends along Yongfu and West Fuxing roads and has retained residential use. The housing register dates it to 1937, a 2023 guide to around 1941, and a 2026 repair account to the 1930s–1940s.

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Street view of Liangyou Apartments, showing its corner and facade.

Capture date not stated; published 19 August 2023

Street view of Liangyou Apartments, showing its corner and facade.

Shanghai housing authorities and heritage preservation centre; reproduced by The Paper Shanghai · Image source · Rights retained by the original creator

At a glance

Construction date
1930s–1940s; sources give 1937 and around 1941
Designer
Not established in the reviewed sources
Architectural character
Modern apartments with Art Deco details
Original use
Residential apartments
Present use
Residential apartments
Address
68 Yongfu Road; 91 and 93 West Fuxing Road, Xuhui, Shanghai

Architecture and use: sources[1] [2] [3]

The beginning

Why was it built here?

Liangyou extends along Yongfu and West Fuxing roads and has retained residential use. The housing register dates it to 1937, a 2023 guide to around 1941, and a 2026 repair account to the 1930s–1940s.[1] [2] [3]

Originally four storeys, the building gained two floors during repairs in 1991. Listed in Shanghai’s fifth historic-building batch in 2015, it underwent conservation work in 2024–2025 covering appearance and residents’ shared facilities.[1] [2] [3]

Look up, then look closer

Details worth a closer look

Corner and street

The wedge-shaped plot spreads the building along two streets. Horizontal window bands and vertical decorative lines balance one another, keeping the corner legible among the plane trees.[1] [2] [3]

Facade details

Green mosaic, pale-brown glazed tiles and wooden handrails record the craftsmanship of the stairs. The photographed “diamond staircase” is residents’ shared space, not an invitation to enter from a street visit.[1] [2] [3]

One building, changing roles

Read the building through time

Captions distinguish photographic dates from publication dates; periods without reliable images are covered in the text.

  1. 1930s–1940s

    Residential apartments built; exact dating differs

    The housing register gives 1937 and the 2023 guide around 1941; both identify a residential apartment building at the corner.[1] [2] [3]

  2. 1991

    Extended from four to six floors

    Major repairs raised the original four storeys to six, making the later addition part of today’s corner silhouette.[1] [2] [3]

  3. 2015

    Listed as a Shanghai historic building

    Inclusion in Shanghai’s fifth historic-building list established ongoing care for the corner mass and details such as the stairs.[1] [2] [3]

  4. 2024–2025

    Conservation repairs and shared-facility improvements

    Conservation also improved shared facilities, maintaining appearance and interior craftsmanship while residential use continued.[1] [2] [3]

Today and visiting

Discover the building from the street

Residential apartments[1] [2] [3]

Address
68 Yongfu Road; 91 and 93 West Fuxing Road, Xuhui, Shanghai
Access
View the exterior from the public pavement. Stairs, entrance halls and homes are not public attractions.
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Sources checked: 2026-10-26 · View the exterior from the public pavement. Stairs, entrance halls and homes are not public attractions.

Shanghai and the world

Two streets, one apartment building

68 Yongfu Road and 91–93 West Fuxing Road belong to the same apartment building. One profile connects both streets and preserves the building’s real relationship with its neighbourhood.[1] [2] [3]

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Text and image sources

This account is based on the sources below. Unverified details are identified as such. Where photographs are included, sources and licences are listed beneath each image.

  1. Shanghai Housing Administration: fifth historic-building list ↗

    Lists Liangyou as 1937; a later guide gives a different date.

  2. Shanghai housing and heritage authorities: corner apartments guide (2023) ↗

    Checks addresses, design attribution, building form and protection records.

  3. Xuhui Housing Bureau: Yongfu Road and Liangyou Apartments (2026) ↗

    Checks added floors, residential use, stair details and 2024–2025 repairs.

Image handling and dating

Images come from the archives or image source pages listed beneath each photograph. We resize and compress them to WebP, preserving their original proportions without colourisation or added detail. Grain, blur and scanning marks in historical photographs are retained.

The photograph comes from the credited architectural guide; publication and capture dates differ. No verified historical building photograph was found, so no invented before-and-after view is shown.