North China Daily News Building [SEP] material used
a reinforced concrete structure with Baroque towers, Neoclassical pillars, and Renaissance relief sculpture. The first seven floors are faced with granite, the lowest two floors of which are rough hewn. The building originally incorporated the statues of two goddesses, which flanked the marble entrance, but these statues were destroyed during the Cultural Revolution. The building contains of office space, and lies on a plot of land.
Bibliography.
- Shea, Marilyn. "The Bund - Picture Guide to Historic Buildings". The University of Maine
shortly after the founding of the People's Republic of China. The building was then confiscated and used by the Chinese government as a branch for various government offices at various times. In 1996 the building was restored, and in 1998 it became the Shanghai branch of AIA Group Limited. AIA was a subsidiary of American International Group (AIG), which is a successor company of the American Asiatic Underwriters, who occupied part of the building in the early twentieth century.
Design.
The North China Daily News Building is