Interesting textures. Taken in the Embankment Building on Suzhou Creek in Shanghai.
Designed by Palmer & Turner and completed in 1935, the Embankment Building was once the biggest apartment complex in the city, stretching for a quarter of a mile on the north of Suzhou Creek. It is located right beside the main China Post office and is almost diagonal to the Broadway Mansions. During the war, Sir Victor Sassoon donated the Embankment Building as a shelter for Jewish refugees.
Today, it contains around 800 apartment units. It is also a 10-storey building now, whereas it was originally built to only have seven floors. A swimming pool has been covered and its original location may probably be seen in old floor plans published in books about art deco architecture in Shanghai.
Colin
I know someone living there – lets go visit sometime!