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武康路2号

Near the Huashan Road end, this house recalls industrialist Mo Shangqing and the garden residences that shaped early Wukang Road. Nos. 2 and 4 developed from the same family property. The walls and mature trees make the northern entrance a place of partial views.

A broad tiled roof, dormers and a columned balcony facing the garden. The familiar published photograph shows the south garden façade; the elevated illustration reveals more than a walk along the pavement.

武康路40弄1、2号

Dong Dayou designed this pair of garden houses together. The Shanghai Library associates No. 1 with Tang Shaoyi, who took refuge at his son-in-law’s home in 1937 and was assassinated at this address in 1938. The official restoration record documents the architecture and its later repairs.

Paired houses behind a lane entrance, green glazed Spanish roof tiles and small columned balconies. The restored roof colour comes from Xuhui’s 2026 account; concealed elevations are interpreted.

武康路63号

A restrained doorway is the public face of a larger garden house associated with Zhu Zuotong. Its garden elevation has a hipped roof, four south-facing dormers, projecting windows and small balconies. Much of that architecture is hidden from an ordinary street view.

The pale roughcast street wall, simple dark doorway surround and green shutters. The modest entrance is part of a continuous street edge, with the house and garden behind it.

武康路99号

This red-roofed garden house is part of the street’s residential fabric. Built in 1928, it combines steep gables, a chimney and half-timber details. Its wall and planting explain why much of Wukang Road is experienced through glimpses, rather than open views of grand façades.

The dark timber pattern under the steep gable, red roof tiles and tall chimney. The elevated illustration reveals more of the garden than a pedestrian would see.

武康路100弄及复兴西路口周边

Lane 100 contains four garden houses, with No. 1 associated with scholar Wang Yuanhua and translator Zhang Ke. Around Fuxing West Road, narrow entrances and high walls give only glimpses of the homes within. A lane is a small neighbourhood, not a single landmark.

Boundary walls, paths and closely spaced roofs. The highlighted group introduces this garden-lane fabric; individual illustrated roofs are not a surveyed plan of Lane 100.

武康路210号

A balcony became a little piece of Shanghai’s literary imagination. Writer Chen Danyan described its Romeo nickname in her book about the city. The name is an affectionate allusion to Shakespeare, rather than a former official building name.

Look up to the curved balcony and its delicate balustrade. The building remains a home; appreciate it from the public street.

武康路113号

Ba Jin moved here in 1955. Behind its garden wall, the writer worked on fiction, essays and translations, and welcomed fellow writers. This unassuming house opens a window into Shanghai’s twentieth-century literary life.

Pebble-textured walls, green shutters and the large arched attic window. The familiar full façade is a view from inside the garden; trees and the boundary wall restrict what a pedestrian sees from the road.

武康路115号 · 湖南路口东北角

A tiny corner plot became a five-storey apartment building. Architect Marcel Guillet fitted a complete residential programme into an unusually small site. Its compact, angular form makes the Wukang–Hunan junction a lesson in inventive city building.

The narrow corner, vertical windows and geometric details. Midan occupies the northeast corner of the Hunan Road junction; Guofumen Apartments stands diagonally opposite, with Kempton Apartments farther south.

武康路230、232号 · 湖南路口西南角

A compact corner apartment stands diagonally opposite Midan. Its spare geometric forms mark a move toward modernism. The limited plot still accommodated varied homes, staircases and service rooms; street-level garages later became shops.

The angled corner, shallow balconies, steel windows and horizontal grooves. Guofumen and the separate Kempton building immediately to its south belong to one close-knit street edge.

武康路240–246号

Just south of Guofumen, a small triangular plot became a four-storey apartment. The 2024 restoration account identifies British firm Palmer & Turner as the first owner and user, and Huaye Engineering as the designer and builder. Its small scale rewards a closer look.

The softened narrow corner, projecting rectangular window surrounds and small round windows. This is a separate building tucked into the same dense block.

武康路280弄 · 通往兴国路

This roughly 400-metre lane connects Wukang and Xingguo roads. Houses, shops, a primary school and a kindergarten share the space. Shanghai World Primary School moved to No. 2 here in 1965; its earlier history belongs to another site on Huaihai Road.

A narrow passage into the block, ordinary rendered walls, overhead services, trees and small entrances. The highlight represents the lane community; the illustration does not identify every protected house or draw the whole side lane to scale.

武康路376–378号

A gate in a white wall leads away from the pavement into a planted courtyard. The historic red-brick house at No. 376 dates to 1928. The courtyard has brought cafés, shops and galleries into the garden setting; individual tenants change over time.

A narrow entrance leads behind the street wall. In a July 2017 courtyard panorama, red-brick buildings and an outdoor stair face a taller grey-and-white block across a compact passage, with tables, awnings and planting.

武康路390号

The street’s southern end is more than its famous apartment block. No. 390 adds a quieter, domestic scale: white walls, a red-tiled roof and an arched veranda behind a planted boundary. Its low profile contrasts with the denser apartment buildings nearby.

Three veranda arches and the curved central parapet above them. The front garden is opened up in the illustration to make these details legible.

武康路393号

This address is associated with revolutionary Huang Xing. Its earliest section dates to 1912; a later addition introduced Art Deco details in 1933. The property tells several chapters, with part serving as a tourist information and old-house arts centre.

Pale horizontal bands and strong vertical details stand against darker wall surfaces. The illustration brings these layers together; it is not a reconstruction of a single historical year.

武康路395号

The Shanghai Film Actors Troupe is associated with this address. Its street wall became another way to meet the city’s cinema history: a 2025 report records relief portraits of seven celebrated actors. The doorway and wall are part of the walk, even when the interior is not open.

The dark metal gate beside No. 393 and the boundary wall. Small plaques in this illustration suggest the cinema display; they are not reproductions of the individual portraits.

武康路南段 · 沿街住宅与院落

Between the landmark façades, smaller houses, compound walls and access lanes give the street its everyday scale. Roofs overlap; entrances lead into spaces that cannot all be seen from the pavement. These ordinary structures are part of the street’s character.

The close spacing, varied roof heights, modest courts and narrow entrances. This highlighted area describes the residential neighbourhood; it does not assign a historical identity to each illustrated house.

淮海中路1828–1834号

Six years after the original apartments were built, a lower five-storey building was added to the east. Known as the new Wukang building or annex, it extends the residential complex along Huaihai Road.

The change in height at the eastern end of the long main building. Read the annex together with the main block and the lower buildings behind them.

淮海中路1850号 · 武康路南端

Hudec’s 1924 Normandy Apartments occupy the acute Wukang–Huaihai corner. The wider complex includes an eastern five-storey annex added in 1930 and the former garages and auxiliary buildings at 435 Wukang Road to the north. The famous prow is part of a dense residential block.

Follow the long red-brick façade and continuous arcade along Huaihai Road. The main building has two recessed northern lightwells. Its annex and rear buildings are essential to understanding the whole site.

淮海中路1850号 · 武康路口

The familiar red-brick prow is where the two walks meet. Hudec fitted this apartment building into a narrow junction plot. Follow its long Huaihai façade eastward: the landmark belongs to a dense residential block, with an annex and neighbours behind it.

The rounded prow, cream balcony bands and arcaded base. The main building, later annex and rear homes form a connected urban block.

淮海中路1843号 · 南侧院落

Behind this garden wall, Soong Ching Ling lived, worked and received international visitors. The museum identifies it as the home where she lived longest. The 1920 house sits between gardens; it is on Huaihai Road, diagonally across from the Wukang junction.

Grey walls, a red tiled roof, dormers and mature camphor trees. The aerial view reveals the house and lawn beyond the boundary; these are not all visible from the pavement.

淮海中路1768弄 · 宛平路口对面

Pale Spanish-style paired houses sit behind a shared entrance. Shao Xunmei’s literary gatherings at No. 17 gave this garden neighbourhood a place in Shanghai’s cultural life. The lane was formerly numbered 1754.

Red tiled roofs, curved iron balconies, camphor trees and a gate into the block. The highlight covers a group, rather than assigning a precise illustrated roof to No. 17.

淮海中路1634号 · 湖南路口以东

Engineer Yang Gengsheng designed this connected pair of residential blocks. The raised floor, simple square columns and verandah give the low house a distinctive presence beside taller neighbours.

A low red roof, white square columns, dark railings and steps up from the garden. The source photograph shows how modest this house is beside the later white block.

淮海中路1555号 · 高安路口东南角

This is the Huaihai Road library, opened in December 1996. Its entrance steps back from the avenue to create Knowledge Plaza. Two unequal towers rise above the reading-room podium: a modern chapter in a street better known for its old houses.

The stepped towers and small pyramidal caps, the broad entrance stairs and circular colonnade. This is the Huaihai branch, distinct from the newer East Library in Pudong.

淮海中路1517号

Sheng Xuanhuai, a major figure in China’s early industrial development, moved here in autumn 1912. The grand entrance faces south into a private garden, away from the avenue.

Paired tall columns, balustrades and a red roof above cream walls. The main garden façade belongs inside the compound, not along the public pavement.

淮海中路1413号 · 复兴路口附近

Educator Huang Yanpei helped establish Hongying Library with funding from industrialist Ye Hongying. This red-brick house later welcomed art students; it is now Xuhui Art Museum. One modest building carries several generations of cultural life.

The steep brick gable, pale coping, dark window frames and small courtyard. Its scale is intimate beside the larger apartment blocks on the avenue.

淮海中路1300–1326号 · 常熟路口东北角

Built as Empire Mansions, this L-shaped apartment building turns the corner from Huaihai into Changshu Road. Shops below and homes above have shared the building since its early years. Later additions and the 2020 restoration are part of its continuing life.

Dark horizontal window bands meet tall vertical fins at the corner. The central section and wings were raised in 1985; the pale frontage is not an untouched 1934 snapshot.