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Bright Fraser

佛兰赛

Architect of Palmer & Turner whom the Shanghai gazetteer credits as designer of Broadway Mansions (1930–34).

Bright Fraser (佛兰赛, Fólánsài) was an architect with Palmer & Turner in Shanghai. The municipal gazetteer names him as designer of Broadway Mansions, built 1930–34. No dates or other works are recorded here.

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Broadway Mansions, a stepped brown-brick tower, rising beside Suzhou Creek under a blue sky.
Photo: xiquinhosilva · CC BY 2.0

Building· 1930–1934

Broadway Mansions

上海大厦Shànghǎi Dàshà

Brown-brick Art Deco tower of 1934 at the north end of Waibaidu Bridge, built as a hotel and apartments for foreigners; renamed Shanghai Mansions in 1951.

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Sources

  1. 1.Shanghai Famous Buildings Gazetteer: the Broadway Mansions entry (node 108934) and the Astor House Hotel entry (node 108944) (上海名建筑志 · 欧美风情的沪滨广厦 · 浦西最佳观景台：百老汇大厦（上海大厦）；上海第一家西洋饭店：礼查饭店大楼（浦江饭店）), 上海市地方志办公室, 2009 — https://szfz.shtong.gov.cn/difangzhi-front/book/detailNew?oneId=1&bookId=81772&parentNodeId=81784&nodeId=108934&type=-1gazetteer
  2. 2.Broadway Mansions: a 1934 Bund mirror image (上海大厦：穿越1934年的外滩镜像), 澎湃新闻·湃客, 2020 — https://m.thepaper.cn/baijiahao_5439668article