2024-12-23T10:07:13-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/112718435/landmarks-of-shanghai-s-semicolonial-past Nam Henderson 2014-11-02T12:05:00-05:00 >2014-11-02T12:05:18-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/qv/qvuot0o1pr83b73v.png?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>His favored collaborator was the British architect George Leopold (Tug) Wilson, whose travels had exposed him to Parisian Art Deco and the latest American skyscrapers...His clean designs, though not the first time modernism came to Shanghai, brought a touch of Gotham to a city whose architectural face had hitherto had a stodgy, neo-Classical cast.</p></em><br /><br /><p>Taras Grescoe explores the architectural remnants of pre-revolutionary Shangha built by&nbsp;Sir Ellice Victor Sassoon, the third baronet of Bombay.</p>