People · architect
Luke Him Sau (Lu Qianshou)
陆谦受
Architect of the Bank of China's own building department; designed the Bank of China Building on the Bund (1934-37).
Lu Qianshou (陆谦受, Lù Qiānshòu), known in English as Luke Him Sau, was the architect of the Bank of China’s own building department and trained at a British school of architecture. He designed the bank’s Shanghai head office on the Bund, with Palmer & Turner as consultants. No birth or death years are given in the sources read.
Places
Building· c. 1936–1937
Bank of China Building
中国银行大楼Zhōngguó Yínháng Dàlóu
The Bank of China's 1937 head office at Bund 23: a 17-storey tower by Luke Him Sau with a blue-tiled Chinese roof, cut down from a planned 34 storeys.
Stories
Sources
- 1.Shanghai Famous Buildings Gazetteer: five Bund entries (nodes 108924 North China Daily News Building, 108925 Chartered Bank, 108926 Palace Hotel, 108927 Sassoon House, 108928 Bank of China) (上海名建筑志 · 欧美风情的沪滨广厦（字林大楼、麦加利银行大楼、汇中饭店、华懋饭店大楼、中国银行大楼各篇）), 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=108928&type=-1gazetteer
- 2.Bank of China stories: the puzzle of the tower height (中行故事：中国银行楼高之谜), 搜狐 — https://www.sohu.com/a/192213744_652676article
- 3.Chinese Wikipedia (article given in each fact's locator) (中文维基百科), Wikimedia Foundation — https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中国银行大楼_(上海)wikipedia