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Moorhead & Halse

马海洋行

British practice formed in Shanghai in 1907 by civil engineer Robert Moorhead and architect Sidney Joseph Halse; it designed the Asia Building on the Bund.

Moorhead & Halse (马海洋行, Mǎhǎi Yángháng) was a British practice formed in Shanghai in 1907 by Robert Moorhead, a civil engineer, and Sidney Joseph Halse, a London-trained architect who had qualified in 1901. The firm designed the McBain Building at No. 1 on the Bund, completed in 1916 and known since 1917 as the Asia Building, and a Japanese architect on its staff fitted out the interiors of the neighbouring Shanghai Club. It later became Moorhead, Halse & Robinson; Halse left to practise on his own and died in Shanghai in 1946.

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The Asia Building at Bund 1, a stone block with columns and a rounded corner.
Photo: xiquinhosilva · CC BY 2.0 · Cropped to fit

Building· 1913–1916

Asia Building

亚细亚大楼Yàxìyà Dàlóu

Bund No. 1: the 1916 McBain Building, home of the Asiatic Petroleum Company from 1917 and now an art venue with the Shanghai Jiushi Art Museum.

The Jardine Matheson Building lit up at night, a stone façade with giant columns above the ground floor.
Photo: Supanut Arunoprayote · CC BY 4.0 · Cropped to fit

Building· 1920–1922

Jardine Matheson Building

怡和洋行大楼Yíhé Yángháng Dàlóu

Jardine Matheson's 1922 head office at Bund No. 27, granite with Corinthian columns, on a lot the firm held from 1845; now shops and restaurants.

Sources

  1. 1.Halse, Sidney Joseph 1877–1946 (Biographical Dictionary of British and Irish Architects 1800–1950) (Halse, Sidney Joseph 1877 - 1946), AHRnet / Design Research Publications — biography entrywebsite
  2. 2.Shanghai Famous Buildings Gazetteer: The Asia Building (上海名建筑志 · 欧美风情的沪滨广厦 · 外滩第一楼：亚细亚大楼（中国太平洋保险公司总部）), 上海市地方志办公室, 2009 — paragraph beginning 亚细亚大楼是一座钢筋混凝土框架结构gazetteer
  3. 3.Asiatic Petroleum Company – Shanghai building, further information (Asiatic Petroleum Company – Shanghai building, further information), Jennifer Lang, The Industrial History of Hong Kong Group, 2014 — paragraph on architectsarticle
  4. 4.Shanghai Famous Buildings Gazetteer: The Shanghai Club Building (Dongfeng Hotel) (上海名建筑志 · 欧美风情的沪滨广厦 · 昔日外侨的欢乐场：上海总会大楼（东风饭店）), 上海市地方志办公室, 2009 — paragraph beginning 上海总会采用钢筋混凝土结构gazetteer